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Listen to the latest Movie Squad before Godzilla Disease gets YOU! This week, Bonus Babe Laura Blundell fills in for Blockbuster Babe Tristan Fidler and brings with her a review of Godzilla Minus Zero, which is both a very easy maths sum and the sequel to the slightly more difficult equation Godzilla Minus One. But first, Simon Miraudo reviews the new film from Oscar-winning writer-director Martin McDonagh, Wild Horse Nine, featuring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA agents on holiday (though not, notably, in Bruges). Stay tuned for a pod-exclusive interview with Madeline Bates, Perth Festival’s Film Curator, talking all about the highlights of the 2027 program, including The Debut, Fjord, Minotaur and more! Check out all the films playing here. Perth Festival’s outdoor film season at Somerville Auditorium kicks off November 23. Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

This Halloween, have a seat. On the latest Movie Squad, Bonus Babe Lucy Rutherford fills in for Tristan Fidler, who is away on special assignment (Operation: Matrimony), and joins Simon Miraudo to review the new Robert Pattinson black comedy Primetime. Then, Lucy gives Brekky host Pam Boland some Bad Apples: that’s the new , darkly comic film starring Saoirse Ronan as a teacher who accidentally (?) abducts a student. It’s part of the British Film Festival commencing 5 November. Stay tuned for the pod-exclusive review of Boorman and the Devil, about the cursed making of Exorcist II, playing as part of Monster Fest this weekend (30 Oct to 1 Nov). Plus, Lucy shares her recent watches on Letterboxd. Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

People have always said that the two things missing from Movie Squad are “sense” and “sensibility”, so thankfully both are featured in abundance this week! Tristan Fidler and Breakfast host Pam Boland lead a review of the new Jane Austen adaptation, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esme Creed Miles. Then, Simon Miraudo offers his thoughts on Hard as Puck, a WA-made documentary about a local para ice hockey team, ahead of its special Q&A screening at Luna Cinemas on November 4. Stay tuned to the bonus podcast-only segment for more thoughts on Sense and Sensibility and its many nepo-baby stars. Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

Blockbuster Babes Simon Miraudo and Tristan Fidler review the three kinds of film on this week’s edition of Movie Squad. First up with Breakfast host Pam Boland, they look at the stunning, investigative triumph NAZA, a documentary about the IDF’s atrocities in Gaza, from the Oscar-winning directors of No Other Land. Then, it’s time for Street Fighter, the candy-coloured adaptation of Capcom’s classic video game, starring Callina Liang. Stay tuned for the Squad’s annual, pod-exclusive review of the latest entry in the VHS horror anthology series, Mixtape. But how does it compare with last year’s VHS Halloween, the best in the series to date? Well… Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

What’s cooler than two new movie reviews? Four new movie reviews. Blockbuster Babes Simon Miraudo and Tristan Fidler join Breakfast host Pamela Boland for a bumper edition of Movie Squad. First up, they get into a rat-a-tat discussion of Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network, titled The Social Reckoning, now starring Jeremy Strong as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Then, Tristan shares his spooky thoughts on Jessica Chastain’s latest creepfest Other Mommy. Stay tuned for pod-exclusive reviews of Takashi Miike’s new courtroom melodrama Sham, which is playing as part of the Japanese Film Festival. Then, they review John Wilson’s winding documentary about impermance, legacy and, um, concrete, The History of Concrete. Check the Luna Cinemas website for its limited session times. Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

D’you like your cinema slow or super fast? Well, we’re serving up both kinds on this week’s episode of the Movie Squad pod! But first, Brekky host Pamela Boland shares her take on the streaming-only rom-com The Love Hypothesis. Then, Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo talk about their date night at a screening of Resident Evil, the rollicking new video game adaptation from Weapons director Zach Cregger. The duo also cover the strange Georgian road-trip saga Dry Leaf, filmed on a Sony Ericsson phone and presented in all its pixelated glory at a one-off session at Luna Cinemas this weekend. Stay tuned for the pod-exclusive segment, as the Babes are joined by special guest Lachy Tan from Thursday Out to Lunch, chatting in spoilery detail about the Resident Evil franchise! Remember to support community radio and Movie Squad by subscribing or donating to RTRFM this Radiothon! You have until October 4 to support your Sound Alternative for 2026, and keep independent voices on the air! Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

Meep meep! Pamela Boland is joined by Tristan Fidler and Laura Blundell in this week’s edition of the Movie Squad podcast! First on the menu: a review of the long delayed, almost cancelled, finally released comedy Coyote vs. Acme, starring Will Forte, John Cena and a bunch of animated Looney Tunes. Then, Tristan covers the historical drama Palestine 36, which is the only narrative film to have been shot in Palestine over the past two years. Stay-tuned for a podcast-only review of the Ethan Hawke/Russell Crowe drama The Weight, and Laura shares her thoughts on recent watches: The Climb, In the Cut and Opening Night. Remember to support community radio and Movie Squad by subscribing or donating to RTRFM this Radiothon! You have until October 4 to support your Sound Alternative for 2026, and keep independent voices on the air! Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

Simon Miraudo and Tristan Fidler biffed it on this week’s edition of the Movie Squad podcast, so leave it to Pamela Boland and Astro Tash to save the day. After some spooky-ooky goings-on in the studio, Pam and Tash review Practical Magic 2, the long-awaited sequel to the story of witchy sisters played by Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. Then, Tristan and Simon share their thoughts on the South Korean sci-fi epic Hope, which Simon says would have blown his hair off his head (if he still had any). Stay tuned for the podcast-only chat for more of their thoughts on Hope and the polarising reviews that came out of Cannes. Remember to support community radio and Movie Squad by subscribing or donating to RTRFM this Radiothon! You have until October 4 to support your Sound Alternative for 2026, and keep independent voices on the air! Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

We’ve got a full deck of the Movie Squad cast this week. Well, two queens and two jokers, anyway. Blockbuster Babes Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo are joined by Bonus Babes Laura Blundell and Lucy Rutherford for a bumper Brekky shift with Pam Boland. First up, a review of the Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony, starring Dominic Sessa and directed by Matt Johnson(‘s arms). Then, the crew take a look at Gregg Araki’s new comedy I Want Your Sex, featuring Cooper Hoffman, Olivia Wilde and Charli xcx’s American accent. Stay tuned for two pod-exclusive reviews, as Laura and Lucy go head-to-head over Matthew McConaughey’s The Rivals of Amziah King, while Tristan and Simon recount Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, The Chronology of Water. Remember to support community radio and Movie Squad by subscribing or donating to RTRFM this Radiothon! You have until October 4 to support your Sound Alternative for 2026, and keep independent voices on the air! Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

There’s been a terrible mistake! On this special Radiothon edition of Movie Squad, imposters invade Breakfast with Pam. Mercifully, your regular Blockbuster Babes Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo come to the rescue and expose the Bizarro Babes, Ange Tuffnell (of Sooks and Bribes) and Drew Krapljanov (from Monday Drivetime). Once amends are made, the fivesome thank Movie Squad subscribers and reward them with Ange’s patented Letterboxd Limericks. Thanks to everyone for their support of the Sound Alternative and Movie Squad, specifically! It’s a pleasure to bring you (hopefully) thoughtful film reviews (and a good heaping of nonsense) every week! Support community radio and Movie Squad by subscribing or donating to RTRFM this Radiothon! You have until October 4 to support your Sound Alternative for 2026, and keep independent voices on the air!

RTRFM, it’s good for you, and so is Movie Squad! To celebrate the start of Radiothon 2026, Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo had Breakfast LIVE with Pam Boland at Local and Aesthetic! Listen back to this Very Special Episode of the Movie Squad pod, to hear the Blockbuster Babes decide against talking about which movies are good, and instead explain which movies are good for you, like Backrooms, The Moment and Mortal Kombat II. Also, Pam raves about The Sheep Detectives again. Support community radio and Movie Squad by subscribing or donating to RTRFM this Radiothon! You have until October 4 to support your Sound Alternative for 2026, and keep independent voices on the air!

Let’s talk about sex, baby. Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo join Brekky host Pam Boland to review two films with the little death on their mind. One of them even has Little Death as a character! That’d be Jane Schoenbrun’s dreamy Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, about a filmmaker (Hannah Einbinder) trying to recruit a reclusive scream queen (Gillian Anderson) for her slasher reboot. It’s now in cinemas. Then, Tristan reviews the contentious rom-com One Night Only, about the one night of the year where pre-marital relations isn’t criminalised, starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. A chaotic discussion follows. It arrives in cinemas next week. Stay tuned for an extra pod-exclusive review of the grimdark martial arts spectacular The Furious, now available to rent digitally. Join Pam and the Blockbuster Babes live at Local & Aesthetic next Friday 14 August for the Radiothon 2026 kick-off! Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

It’s Peter Parker vs. Pickleball on the Movie Squad podcast this week! Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo join Brekky host Pam Boland to review the biggest film in the world and the biggest film currently on Apple TV. First up, the Blockbuster Babes live up to their name by taking a look at Spider-Man: Brand New Day, featuring Tom Holland as the titular hero as he reckons with a new world in which his friends have forgotten him. It’s now showing in cinemas. Then, they turn to streaming for The Dink, starring one-time animated Peter Parker, Jake Johnson, as a failed tennis pro who falls for the sport of pickleball and his older playing partner (Mary Steenburgen). Stay tuned for an extra pod-exclusive chat as Simon and Tristan talk about what they’ve been watching at home, including Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Mortal Kombat II, Edge of Darkness, and even Expendables 4 (sort of). Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, and listen to the latest Movie Squad podcast instead! This week, Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo bring two new cinema releases to Brekky host Pam Boland. First up, it’s the newie from Olivier Assayas, The Wizard of the Kremlin, starring Paul Dano as a (fictionalised?) power broker behind the rise of Russian secret agent Vladimir Putin (played by Jude Law). Then, as part of the 2026 Nordic Film Festival, they take a look at Mads Mikkelsen as a man who thinks he’s John Lennon in The Last Viking. Check out the whole program here. Stay tuned for an extra pod-exclusive chat as Simon and Tristan talk about the last week of Odyssey mania. Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!

An epic movie deserves an epic podcast. But this one will have to do. On this episode of the Movie Squad pod, returning heroes Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo are reunited with Pam Boland after an absolute age (two weeks). They kick-off with a review of Christopher Nolan’s gargantuan adaptation of The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland and a cast of thousands (plus one cyclops). Then, Tristan shares his take on Evil Dead Burn, the latest instalment in the Deadite-spawning horror franchise. Both films are now in cinemas. Stay tuned for a pod-exclusive review of John Wilson’s The History of Concrete, which Simon and Tristan presented as part of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival! And then be treated by an interview with Fran Hoepfner of Vulture and Fran Magazine, who chats about her very fun new book (on a subject close to the Blockbuster Babes’ hearts),The Field Guide to Nepo Babies, now available in-store and online. Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!