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The Filmlordes try to get as much covered in film news this week as possible, cramming Jennifer Kent bitching to Lena Dunham casting, to Billionaire Boys Club booing to Claire Denis loving into film news. They then review Crazy Rich Asians and McQueen. Finally, the Filmlordes decide who gets to win a double pass to see the McQueen documentary thanks to some film lovers texting in their favourite on screen fashion moment. 

Jack and Andre review BLACKKKLANSMAN and The Meg, and discuss what the best use of Aretha Franklin is in film. Is it in Bridget Jone's Diary? High Fidelity? The Blues Brothers? My Best Friend's Wedding? We also get to chat to Stefan Popescu, co-director of the SUFF that is happening from September 13-16 at the Factory Theatre. Also, Rihanna is shooting something in Cuba...

Imogen McCluskey is the filmmaker behind Suburban Wildlife, a debut feature film made on a micro budget; she co-wrote, directed, produced the film with a ragshag of Sydney creatives.   In this episode of DANGERFILM the Filmlordes get the exclusive scoop on Suburban Wildlife before it takes the world by storm. Imogen talks about the film, her tips on getting a film off the ground, and how to make art when your body is telling you NO! Also in this wonderful conversation the gang giggle about Soairse Ronan, Oscar Speeches, Mel Gibson's set, and everyone shares how to be the best crew member on a film set.

Filmlordes Jack and André review Mission Impossible VI and Summer of 93. They share their take on the new Oscars category and pump the Korean Film Festival. Oh and the screenings at NSW art Gallery are discussed. 

Filmlordes review The Miseducation of Cameron Post and You Were Never Really Here, two films screening at MIFF 2018. Speaking of which, Jack and André are at MIFF, so Jack does a phone in to talk about NSYNC, the Brady Bunch house sale, LeBron James and how much he misses André. In Sydney Spotlight Jack and André talk to Imogen Heap about her debut micro-budget feature film Suburban Wildlife. It's a blast!

In this episode Jack and André talk about Trump's bashed up Hollywood star, the Across the Universe re-release, and how jazzed you can get for Charlie's Angels feat. Kristen Stewart. A week before MIFF 2018 the filmlordes review Beirut, and Whitney, also offering listeners free tickets if they text in their choice 'grounding' movie. 

Mamma Mia 2 + Jill Bilcock, Ozploitation director Brian Trenchard-Smith is in the studio to talk about his career and a screening of his first film, Australian James Bond parody The Man from Hong Kong. André reviews Mamma Mia 2, Here We Go Again and Jack reviews Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible. Hot week.

Madeline's Madeline + A Simple Favour. Jack and André celebrate the life of Kirin Kiki before the release of Shoplifters, recap Sydney underground Film Festival and answer your questions on a new segment called Dear Filmlordes. We celebrate P!nk's contribution to cinema and let you know where to catch Australian cinema in theatres this week.  

Wet Woman in the Wind + No Date No Signature, We give away tickets to The Breaker Upperers and fangirl Cate Shortland. Canberran filmmakers and film fans are celebrating hard CORE after the announcement that ACT icon Cate Shortland will be directing Marvel's Black Widow. We give away tickets to Taika Waititi produced Kiwi Comedy The Breaker Upperers and review Wet Woman in the Wind and No Date No Signature.

Ant Man and the Wasp + The Gospel According to André, Celebrating 25 years of the Indigenous Department of Screen Australia we have Laurrie Brannigan-Onato and Issy Kahn talking to us about the future of Indigenous cinema in Australia and NAIDOC week. We also talk about the revealed ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Scary Movie, Nicholas Winding Refn's new streaming service, Scarlett Johansson in Rub and Tug and we pay tribute to the passing of cinematographer Robbie Mueller

The Incredibles 2 + Sicario 2, It's André's birthday and there's lots of juicy film news. Azealia Banks is suing Russell Crowe, Greta Gerwig is making Little Women, Silent Cinema is the back with a vengeance and Susan Sarandon arrested! We also review two nothing, conservative sequels and talk about our ideal birthday plans, Adelaide Film Festival's #YOUMUSTSEE and the online Focus on Ability Film Festival.

Greg Sestero, Mark from The Room, author of The Disaster Artist and screenwriter of Best F(r)iends talks about how to cast Tommy Wiseau, writing with edibles and how to make your creative dreams come true. We also talk about the horny review of The Incredibles 2 in The New Yorker, the M.I.A doco's release date, Cate Shortland in talks to direct Marvel's Black Widow, Mudbound's millions of hours of streams and we pay tribute to the passing of local artist Candy Royalle.

Ideal Home + Disobedience, we also talk to James L. Brown co-director of WATAN, a new documentary about Syrian asylum seekers in Jordan screening at the Refugee Film Festival this week. In news this week claims that Charlie Chaplin is an original meme Lorde, Sambene! Finally shown in Africa, A sleepy sequel to The Shining in the works and a Call Me By Your Name album that smells of peach and (probably) cum.

Soda_Jerk are the duo behind Terror Nullius, screening at the SFF. As two of Australia’s leading video artists they talk about their pastiche style, queerdom in video art, their undeniable love of Australian cinema, and hauntology in movies.

In this episode of DANGERFILM Jack and André are star struck by Leigh Whannell, writer and director of UPGRADE, which is playing at the SFF. Best known for creating the hugely beloved SAW franchise, Leigh talks about how stand up is in fact scarier than SAW, what it takes to make a Leigh Whannell horror film, and radical filmmaking v.s his artistic process. While Leigh has made a career of creating horror entertainment and visually confronting films he also reveals the one confronting trope he refuses to show in his work. Talking to Leigh was funny, insightful, and for someone who created the most horrendously enjoyable booby trap films, deeply spiritual.

In this episode of DANGERFILM Jack and André talk to Hunter Page Lochard - best known for being the star of Cleverman and Bangarra dance theatre. His debut short film Djali is playing at the SFF and we bring him in to talk about his favourite films, being a first time director, making work with a political message and blind casting. We didn’t know how to fit it in, but along the way we found out that Hunter loves Rachel McAdam’s Notebook audition. Enjoy!

Sari Braithwaite is with us on DANGERFILM to talk about her feature length documentary [CENSORED]. A long form video essay, this film is a collage of scenes collected from the National Film Archive that were censored from the public. Through years of research into the archive, [CENSORED] presents a nuanced and thought provoking investigation into the censored film archive. Sari talks about her experience of watching nearly 2000 scenes of censored footage, the state of censorship in Australia, and how to make a confessional documentary about films that the general public were never allowed to see.

Dr Karen Pearlman is a renowned filmmaker, film writer and dancer. She specialises in editing, and is a lecturer of screen production at Macquarie University. Her short film AFTER THE FACTS is a hybrid documentary about Esther Shub, an uncredited female editor who is noted for greatly contributing to the foundation of montage editing. AFTER THE FACTS is about the unnamed, sidelined female editors who played a huge role in creating modern day editing. We talk to her about her film AFTER THE FACTS, Soviet Russia in the 1920s, how holding film can create new ideas, and of course M.I.A and Björk.

Hyun Lee is the first filmmaker we’re interviewing from this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Despite only having directed a few Rainbow Chan music videos her short film ASIAN GIRLS has already travelled the world, landing a midnight screening at SXSW. We talk to her about barriers to entry in film, century eggs, Jim Jarmusch, and an Australian music video where someone poos in a man’s mouth.

Hereditary + Ocean’s 8, Cleverman star, super hero, dancer, director, slashie and lets be honest heart-throb Hunter Page-Lochard graces us to talk about his new short film Djali featuring Deborah Mailman. We mourn Anthony Bourdain, celebrate Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry and Reece Witherspoon is back for Legally Blonde III - Return of the King and we review Ocean’s 8 and Hereditary and argue.