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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!

With Simon away on assignment, we’ve sent out the Bat-Signal to Blockbuster Babe Lucy Rutherford to join Tristan Fidler for Movie Squad. First, Tristan reviews Digger, a black comedy directed by auteur Alejandro González Iñárritu which sees superstar Tom Cruise take a break from Mission Impossible to play a Texan oil tycoon on a mission to prove he can save humanity. Next, Lucy reviews the latest adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel (sigh) called Verity, which follows a ghostwriter whose assignment charting the life of literary giant Verity Crawford takes a dark turn when she discovers chilling autobiographical notes. Stay tuned for the podcast exclusive review of CAMP, a coming-of-age folk horror directed and written by Avalon Fast and Sweetheart, a critically acclaimed Italian film about an 11-year old who spends a tech free Summer with his great Aunt in Sicily. 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!

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!

You’re invited to the podcasting event of the season. On this blockbuster episode of the Movie Squad pod, Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo are joined by not one, not two, not four, but three special guests! First, Danae Gibson takes over for Brekky while Pam Boland is away on special assignment, and gets to listen to reviews of Olivia Wilde’s frisky comedy The Invite and Aussie body-horror Saccharine. Then, Tristan and Simon are joined by Ari Harrison, General Manager of Umbrella Entertainment, who’s in Perth for the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, which is screening Umbrella titles Penny Lane is Dead, Mum I’m Alien Pregnant and Mockbuster. Finally, a chat between Tristan and Brandon Daley, director behind one of the Squad’s favourite Rev titles of 2026, $Positions. Listen back to the Blockbuster Babes’ RevFest picks from last week’s ep. Don’t forget Movie Squad’s special presentation of John Wilson’s The History of Concrete at the fest on 15 July! 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!

Urgent, breaking news: Pam Boland has seen The Sheep Detectives and needs to talk about it. After that (and only after that) may Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo review their movies. Tristan regales the Movie Squad team with the tale of 100 Nights of Hero, starring Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe and Charli XCX in a parallel-universe, fantasy-romance. Then, Simon covers Dead Man’s Wire, the Opening Night feature for the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, from director Gus Van Sant. Stay tuned to the pod-exclusive segment for Simon’s bonus review of Jackass: Best and Last (“a triumph of the human spirit”) and the Blockbuster Babes’ picks from the rest of the Rev Film Fest program, INCLUDING their special presentation of John Wilson’s The History of Concrete on 15 July! 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!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a bonus babe? YES. With Simon Miraudo away on assignment, DJ Aslan from Cloud Waves joins Tristan Fidler and Pamela Boland for a very special Movie Squad pod! After a brief bit of movie news (mostly hair related) from Pam, Tristan and Aslan review Supergirl, starring Australia’s own Milly Alcock as Superman’s cousin. It’s now in cinemas. Then, they discuss the very silly streaming comedy Never Change, written by and starring John Reynolds, about a class of 35-year-olds who have to go back to high school so they can officially graduate. Then, in a pod-exclusive discussion, a sickly Simon phones in to review Toy Story 5, and shares some scorching hot takes on the series as a whole. Plus, with Tristan and Aslan co-presenting a Trash Classics screening of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice at Luna Leederville, they chat about their feelings on the unfairly-maligned cult classic, and how they’ve changed over the past twenty years. 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!