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Primal Screen
Primal Screen is a show about movies, from the ones on the big screen to the ones you stream. A mix of new release and retrospective film and television reviews and interviews with film and television practitioners on 3RRR 102.7FM in Melbourne Australia. Presented by Flick Ford with regular gues...
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Radiothon 2025 Special
Flick Ford is joined on this chaotic episode of Pimal Screen by: Thomas Caldwell, Cerise Howard, Alice McShane, Maudie Osborne, Will Cox and Aiden Tee...
Conversation with Zoe Pepper on Birthright, Conversation with James Litchfield and Lucinda Reynolds about Alphabet Lane
Flick Ford is joined this episode by Cerise Howard. The duo are joined in the studio by the writer and director of Birthright, Zoe Pepper, to discuss...
Primal Screens Top 20 Films of MIFF 2025
Flick Ford is joined this week by Cerise Howard and Thomas Caldwell. In this episode, the trio discuss and delve into the curation of the Primal Scree...
Interview with Michael Shanks on Together, Fantastic Four: First Steps
This week on Primal Screen, host Flick Ford is joined by culture writer Will Cox and writer, audio producer, and filmmaker Silvi Van-Wall. Flick sits...
Friendship, Too Much, My Mum Jane
This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by film critic Thomas Caldwell and film programmer Alice McShane for a lively discussion of three ne...
Conversation with Director Paula Whetu Jones on The Doctors Wife, Review of James Gunn's Superman, Review of A Nice Indian Boy
On this episode of Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by writer and critic Vyshnavee Wijekuma and academic, writic and critic Stuart Richards. The tr...
Conversation with James Hewison on Paris May 68: The Struggle Continues, The Story of Souleymane
On this episode of Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Alice McChain and Anthony Carew. Flick speaks with James Hewison about Remembering Paris May...
Interview with Gabrielle Brady on The Wolves Always Come at Night, Discussion of 28 Years Later
On this episeode, Flick is joined by Eloise Ross and Stuart Richards. Flick sits down with filmmaker Gabrielle Brady to discuss her haunting new work...
Dangerous Animals with Director Sean Byrne, Celine Song's Materialists and Past Lives
Flick is joined in this episode by Alice Mcchain and Silvi Vann-Wal. They chat to special guest Sean Byrne, about his latest film Dangerous Animals, a...
First Glance at MIFF 2025,Ballerina, Bring Her Back
On this episode of Primal Screen, Flick is joined in the studio by Cerise Howard and Anthony Carew for a lively discussion packed with cinematic insig...
Scala!!!, Melbourne's History of Arthouse and Repertory Cinema
You may have heard of these iconic cinemas in Melbourne, The Astor Theatre and The Valhalla (which later moved and became the Westgarth Cinema), but h...
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Universal Language, Hurry Up Tomorrow
This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Cerise Howard and Will Cox for a jam packed episode of film nostalgia and fresh takes.
The t...
MISCELLANIA's Film Club, The Wedding Banquet Remake and The Assessment
Join Flick Ford as she teams up with Thomas Caldwell and Silvi Vann-Wall for another exciting episode of Primal Screen! This week, the trio dive into...
Cinema Reborn, The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Dying for Sex
This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Vyshnavee Wijekumar for a jam-packed episode!
First up, we preview Cinema Reborn, an annual...
The best political satire of the century (and its stage adaptation) plus review of 'Crossing'
This week we welcome back our beloved host, Flick Ford! Joined by guests Thomas Caldwell and Cerise Howard.
We review Levan Akin’s deeply touchi...
Boy Week! Reviews of Warfare, Sinners, and The Rehearsal
It’s Boy Week on Primal Screen, as guest host Alice McShane is joined by Will Cox and Maudie Osborne to take us through discussions and reviews of the...
Merle Oberon’s lifelong secret, Michael Haneke’s deceptively humanistic cinema and a piercing Magdalene Laundries drama
Eloise Ross jumped into the host seat this week to interview Australia’s unofficial Merle Oberon expert, Rohan Spong. In light of the recent book, Lov...
Holiday makers, studio heads, and unicorns! The White Lotus, The Studio, and Death of a Unicorn in Review.
This week, we're diving into three titles that, in their own unique ways, critique capitalist systems and corruption through humor and satire. Join An...
Richard Gere and Paul Schrader reunite; Looney Tunes hits us with nostalgia; and an observational doco for cat lovers
This week we reviewed three films that all opened in Australian cinemas last week, but otherwise have little else in common.
Our guest host Thom...
Melbourne Women in Film Festival highlights & Melbourne Cinémathèque’s upcoming noir season
Incidentally, the theme for Primal Screen this week was volunteer-run organisations that make it possible to watch films on the big screen with an aud...
Oscars Fever! Plus reviews of ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’, ‘I’m Still Here’ and ‘Dahomey’
It’s Oscars fever in the studio this week! Even if you don’t have a medically certifiable diagnosis of fever, perhaps you have some milder symptoms st...
Bird and the Last Showgirl
This week on Primal Screen, guest host Alice takes us through reviews of Andrea Arnold's stunning tribute to childhood in BIRD as well as THE LAST SHO...
Grand Tour, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and more!
This week on Primal Screen, guest host Will Cox is joined by Alex McShane to review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Grand Tour.
Our favour...
'The Brutalist', 'A Complete Unknown', and 'Babygirl'
On Primal Screen we review three films that have just hit cinemas!
THE BRUTALIST is the epic period drama following a visionary architectwho (Ad...
First show of 2025! Reviewing Nosferatu and Anora
For the first show of Primal Screen for 2025, Flick Ford is joined in the studio by Alice McShane and Anthony Carew to review NOSFERATU and ANORA. A r...
Melbourne Cinémathèque turns 40, Tom Zubrycki's oeuvre, and Agnieszka Holland's Green Border (2023)
We're celebrating the Melbourne Cinémathèque's 40th anniversary this week, with two of the pre-eminent film society's co-curators in the studio. Prima...
Autopsy on the Musical: Wicked vs The People's Joker
This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Alice McShane and Will Cox to discuss two wildly different films. Wicked offers a polished, mainst...
Are you not entertained? Discussions of Gladiator II and Memory
"This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford discusses with guest reviewers Thomas Caldwell and Stuart Richards this week's upcoming releases. The Roman Em...
Top picks of the program for Melbourne Queer Film Festival
This week’s episode dives into the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF), taking place 14–24 November 2024. We’re joined by special guest and former co...
Getting Spooky with The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Witches & Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
It's spooky season this week Primal Screen gears up for a very special Halloween Edition of the show.
Former Primal Screen host Paul Anthony Nel...
Memoir of a Snail and 70th Anniversary of Godzilla
In this episode we discuss Adam Elliot's award winning film Memoir of a Snail (2024) which which was the opening night film of MIFF 2024. And we celeb...
Flathead, The Apprentice & Like My Brother
Flick Ford and Thomas Caldwell speak to filmmaker Jaydon Martin about his film Flathead (2024). Together they also review The Apprentice (2024), Ali A...
Ghostlight, Joker: Folie à Deux & Megalopolis
Hosts Flick Ford and Will Cox chat with directors of Ghostlight (2024), Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson. Then they review new releases Joker: Folie...
The Substance, Your Fat Friend & My Old Ass
Anthony Carew fills in for Flick, joined by guest reviewers Alice McShane and Erin Rosenberg to discuss a trio of new releases. The satirical feminist...
Neo-Intimacies: A Static Vision Festival, and reviews of My Darling in Stirling (2023) & TV series The Perfect Couple
Eloise Ross and Emma Westwood host Primal Screen this week. They're joined by Felix Hubble and Kai Perrignon to discuss Static Visions's latest festiv...
Lido's Friday the 13th: Ozploitation at the Drive-In, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Last Summer
This week Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewers, Silvi Vann Wall and Eloise Ross.
Together they tackle the question: what happens when you re...
Sci-fi horror galactic special with Alien: Romulus (2024), Afraid (2024) & I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
With special guest reviewers Thao Phan, Andrew Lynch, our host Flick Ford takes us through the latest horror flicks with a science fiction twist.
Food on Film
This week, presenter Flick Ford is joined by guests Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Will Cox, and Alice McShane to explore where the culinary and the cinematic c...
RRR In Conversation: Primal Screen Live
Host Flick Ford brings Primal Screen out of the studio and into the Performance Space for this edition of RRR's beloved film and screen culture progra...
MIFF is Upon Us, and Are You Ready for a Hear My Eyes and Surprise Chef Collaboration?
Join host Flick Ford with reviewers Cerise Howard and Thomas Caldwell, as they chat to founder and artistic director of Hear My Eyes, Hayden Green, an...