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👻 Special Guest: Hellhouse at the Sydney Opera House Halloween is creeping closer, and the Sydney Opera House is getting into the spirit with HELLHOUSE, a program of horror cinema spanning cult classics, contemporary nightmares and gloriously schlocky scares. Film programmer Stuart Buchanan joins us to talk about the films, the program and what makes horror such a lasting cinematic obsession. Running 27 to 31 October, HELLHOUSE has something for horror fans of all persuasions. Just how much terror can the Opera House handle? Explore the program: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/hellhouse

🎬 This week on Celluloid Dreams! 🍿Wednesday | 7:30 PM | 2SER 107.3 🎥 New Releases: The Social Reckoning and Digger Two very different films hit the big screen. The Social Reckoning takes us back into the world of tech and its consequences, while Digger arrives with box office expectations to contend with. A commercial flop, or a future cult classic? Sometimes a film needs time to find its audience. 📺 Stream It or Leave It: Carrie Mike Flanagan takes on Stephen King's classic Carrie in a new television adaptation. Can Flanagan bring something fresh to this familiar tale of teenage angst, telekinetic terror and a prom night that goes horribly wrong? Or is this one horror story that should stay in the past? 👻 Special Guest: Hellhouse at the Sydney Opera House Halloween is creeping closer, and the Sydney Opera House is getting into the spirit with HELLHOUSE, a program of horror cinema spanning cult classics, contemporary nightmares and gloriously schlocky scares. Film programmer Stuart Buchanan joins us to talk about the films, the program and what makes horror such a lasting cinematic obsession. Running 27 to 31 October, HELLHOUSE has something for horror fans of all persuasions. Just how much terror can the Opera House handle? Explore the program: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/hellhouse 📻 Tune in Wednesday at 7:30 PM on 2SER 107.3 for new releases, streaming verdicts and a little Halloween fright.

🎟️ Special Guest: Simon Foster | Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival The Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival returns for its seventh year, and festival director Simon Foster joins us to take us through this year's program. From three Australian feature film world premieres to Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires, Jason X and a 90-year-old Italian comic brought to life on screen, there's plenty for sci-fi, fantasy and horror fans to discover.

🎬 This week on Celluloid Dreams! 🍿 Airs Wednesday | 7:30 PM | 2SER 107.3 ✨ New Releases Florence Pugh and Mike Faist head back to 19th-century California in East of Eden, Netflix's new adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel. With family secrets, forbidden love and characters struggling against the lives they've been handed, does this latest take on Steinbeck bring something fresh to the story, or is it destined to live in the shadow of the book? We also take a wild ride with Verity, the new adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling thriller starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett. It's got dark secrets, shocking revelations and some truly bonkers twists. Is it terrible, terrific, or the kind of film that's so much fun you simply don't care? 📺 Stream It or Leave It Jon Hamm stars in American Hostage, the new series based on the extraordinary true story of a radio broadcaster held hostage live on air. With the clock ticking and the whole situation unfolding through the radio station, is this tense retelling worth tuning in for? 🎟️ Special Guest: Simon Foster | Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival The Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival returns for its seventh year, and festival director Simon Foster joins us to take us through this year's program. From three Australian feature film world premieres to Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires, Jason X and a 90-year-old Italian comic brought to life on screen, there's plenty for sci-fi, fantasy and horror fans to discover. 📻 Tune in at 7:30 PM on 2SER 107.3 for new releases, streaming verdicts, festival favourites and all things screen culture. You can also catch up anytime on the podcast, including extended interview clips. #CelluloidDreams #2SER #EastOfEden #Verity #AmericanHostage #SydneyScienceFictionFilmFestival #ScienceFiction #FilmRadio #FilmPodcast

🎟️ Special Guest: Christy Dena Evan sits down with narrative activist and all-round creative Christy Dena to talk about their new article for Next World Narrative, How do I Flourish Despite “Straight-to-Execution” Culture. What happens to creativity when every idea is expected to prove itself immediately? And how do we create space for ideas to develop, take risks and become something we couldn't have predicted at the start?

🎬 This week on Celluloid Dreams! 🍿 Airs Wednesday | 7:30 PM | 2SER 107.3 ✨ New Release: Resident Evil Lewis and Beth head back into the world of Resident Evil as the gaming favourite gets another big-screen adaptation from Zach Cregger, writer and director of last year's surprise horror hit Weapons. Will this new take scare Lewis off, or is he ready to check into the Resi-dency? 🎟️ Special Guest: Christy Dena Evan sits down with narrative activist and all-round creative Christy Dena to talk about their new article for Next World Narrative, How do I Flourish Despite “Straight-to-Execution” Culture. What happens to creativity when every idea is expected to prove itself immediately? And how do we create space for ideas to develop, take risks and become something we couldn't have predicted at the start? 📺 Stream It or Leave It: The Love HypothesisBeth and Lewis put their best theories to the test with Amazon Prime's new romantic comedy The Love Hypothesis. Will this latest rom-com have them falling in love with the formula, or is the chemistry just not adding up? 📻 Tune in at 7:30 PM on 2SER 107.3 for horror, creative conversations, streaming verdicts and all things screen culture. You can also catch up anytime on the podcast. #CelluloidDreams #2SER #ResidentEvil #Weapons #ChristyDena #NextWorldNarrative #TheLoveHypothesis #FilmRadio #FilmPodcast

Airs Wednesday | 7:30 PM | 2SER 107.3 ✨ New Release: Hope Lewis heads to Korea for Hope, the new monster action spectacular. With a big setup and even bigger expectations, does the payoff deliver the goods, or will Lewis's disappointment be monstrous? 🎟️ Festival Focus: Japanese Film Festival Australia The Japanese Film Festival Australia, celebrating 30 years, is upon us, and festival programmer Manisay Oudomvilay drops in to give us the scoop on this year's program. From contemporary Japanese cinema to discoveries from across the country, we'll find out what's worth putting on your festival calendar.  ☘️ Festival Focus: Irish Film Festival Also joining us is Professor Enda Murray from the Irish Film Festival to give us a preview of what's coming when the festival kicks off its national tour in Sydney this October. What's made the cut, and which films should be on our radar? Learn all about the exciting line up of Irish language films from doco to horror.  📺 Stream It or Leave It: Empathy SBS On Demand takes us inside a psychiatric ward with Empathy, the new Canadian comic drama. Can this series find the funny without losing sight of the people at its centre, or will the humour be hard to diagnose? 📻 Tune in at 7:30 PM on 2SER 107.3 for monster movies, festival favourites and streaming verdicts. You can also catch up anytime on the podcast. #CelluloidDreams #2SER #Hope #JapaneseFilmFestival #IrishFilmFestival #Empathy #SBSOnDemand #FilmRadio #FilmPodcast

🎬 This week on Celluloid Dreams! 🍿 Airs Wednesday | 7:30 PM | 2SER 107.3 ✨ New Release: Acme vs Coyote School holidays are here and Wile E. Coyote is back on the big screen. Can this Looney Tunes rehash capture the anarchic spirit of the originals and entertain a whole new generation, or has the joke finally run out of road? 🎟️ Special Guest: Bryn Tilly | Dark Nights Film Festival Dark Nights Film Festival goes micro cinema with a new collection of global horror shorts and the feature The Turkish Coffee Table. Bryn Tilly drops in to give us the lowdown on this year’s Day and Night of Darkness, and the dark delights waiting to be discovered. 📺 Stream It or Leave It: Patrick Brammall heads into mysterious territory with the new Australian thriller Last Seen, now streaming on Apple TV+. Can this homegrown mystery keep us guessing and leave us on the edge of our seats, or will the trail go cold? And we head into the world of Gen Z friendships and questionable life choices with Season 2 of Adults. Does the comedy about five twenty-somethings trying to work out adulthood still have something to say, or are we all just getting too old for this? 📻 Tune in at 7:30 PM on 2SER 107.3 for new releases, festival frights, streaming verdicts and all things screen culture. You can also catch up anytime on the podcast. #CelluloidDreams #2SER #AcmeVsCoyote #LooneyTunes #DarkNightsFilmFestival #TheTurkishCoffeeTable #LastSeen #PatrickBrammall #Adults #FilmRadio #FilmPodcast

🎟️ Special Guest: Daz Chandler – The Parallel Effect Evan sits down with Daz Chandler, creator of The Parallel Effect, the ambitious multimedia project that combines podcasts, short films and visual art to imagine worlds where history unfolded differently. Together they explore the power of imagination, speculative storytelling and how artists can help us see our own world through a different lens.

🎬 Tonight on Celluloid Dreams! 🍿 Airs Wednesday | 7:30 PM | 2SER 107.3 ✨ New Release: Beth revisits a childhood favourite with The Magic Faraway Tree, now streaming on Paramount+. Does Enid Blyton's beloved fantasy adventure capture the wonder of the original books, or has this big screen adaptation lost some of its magic along the way? 🎟️ Special Guest: Daz Chandler – The Parallel Effect Evan sits down with Daz Chandler, creator of The Parallel Effect, the ambitious multimedia project that combines podcasts, short films and visual art to imagine worlds where history unfolded differently. Together they explore the power of imagination, speculative storytelling and how artists can help us see our own world through a different lens. 📺 Stream It or Leave It: Lewis investigates Netflix's The Whisper Man. With Robert De Niro, Adam Scott and a missing-child mystery, does this serial killer thriller have anything new to say, or is it content to live in the shadow of Se7en? Then it's over to Apple TV+ for Mayday, where Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh team up in a Cold War action comedy. Does this high-flying adventure take off, or is Ryan Reynolds still playing the same character in a different cockpit? 🎟️ Giveaway: We Are the Shaggs We've teamed up with the Sydney Underground Film Festival to give away one of two double passes to We Are the Shaggs, screening this Saturday at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville. Listen to the show to find out how to enter. 📻 Tune in at 7:30 PM on 2SER 107.3 for new releases, streaming verdicts, special guests and all things screen culture. You can also catch up anytime on the podcast. 🎧 Missed the show? Head to the link in our bio for episodes and bonus interviews. #CelluloidDreams #2SER #TheMagicFarawayTree #TheParallelEffect #TheWhisperMan #Mayday #SydneyUndergroundFilmFestival #FilmRadio #FilmPodcast

Celluloid Dreams – Show Notes 🎬 Tonight on Celluloid Dreams! 🍿Airs Wednesday | 7:30 PM | 2SER 107.3 ✨ New Releases:Lewis ventures into a post-apocalyptic world with Ridley Scott's latest epic, The Dog Stars. Decades into one of cinema's most celebrated directing careers, has Scott still got the magic to surprise us? Will The Dog Stars become another standout in an extraordinary filmography, or is this one destined to be a dog's breakfast? 🎟️ Special Guest: Ian Darling – The ValleyThis Father's Day, Evan will host a special post-screening Q&A with director Ian Darling following a screening of his meditative documentary The Valley at the Gala Cinema, Warrawong. To celebrate, we're revisiting our conversation with Ian from the film's Sydney Film Festival premiere, exploring the beauty, stillness and quiet power behind one of the year's most contemplative documentaries. 📺 Stream It or Leave It: Father Mother Sister BrotherJim Jarmusch returns with Father Mother Sister Brother, arriving straight to streaming. Told across three family stories, this quietly observed drama finds meaning in awkward silences, unspoken emotions and the small moments that connect us all. Is this another understated triumph from one of cinema's great auteurs, or does Jarmusch's trademark restraint leave you wanting more? 🎮 Gaming: Star Wars Zero CompanyLewis has been locked and loaded with Star Wars Zero Company. Does this tactical adventure prove there's still plenty of life in a galaxy far, far away, or should this mission have stayed back at the Rebel base? 📻 Tune in at 7:30 PM on 2SER 107.3 for new releases, special guests, streaming verdicts and gaming chat. You can also catch up anytime on the podcast.🎧 Missed the show? Head to the link in our bio for episodes and bonus interviews. #CelluloidDreams #2SER #TheDogStars #RidleyScott #TheValley #IanDarling #FatherMotherSisterBrother #JimJarmusch #StarWarsZeroCompany #FilmRadio #FilmPodcast

🎬 Tonight on Celluloid Dreams! 🍿Airs Wednesday | 7:30 PM | 2SER 107.3 ✨ New Releases:Lewis dives into Gregg Araki's provocative new comedy I Want Your Sex. Starring Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde, does this raunchy battle of the generations have enough bite, or is it all tease and no payoff? Evan heads to France for The Party's Over, the dark comedy that proved a crowd favourite at this year's French Film Festival. When a wealthy family's holiday idyll collides with class tensions and long-simmering resentments, who gets the last laugh?  Lewis also explores Palestine 36, a powerful historical drama set during the British occupation of Palestine. By returning to the roots of a history that continues to shape the present, the film offers a searing reminder of how colonial violence, displacement and resistance reverberate through generations. With the current crisis casting its shadow over every frame, Palestine 36 is not simply a historical drama—it is an urgent, deeply relevant film that asks us to confront the forces behind today's suffering and to listen to the voices history has too often tried to silence.  And finally, Lewis serves up Tony, Matt Johnson's intimate portrait of a young Anthony Bourdain. Rather than another cradle-to-grave biopic, this coming-of-age story focuses on one formative summer that helped shape one of the world's most beloved chefs and writers.  🎟️ Giveaway: DreamsWe've teamed up with Vendetta Films to give away an in-season double pass to the acclaimed Norwegian film Dreams. Listen to the show to find out how to enter and you could be heading to the cinema on us!  📻 Tune in at 7:30 PM on 2SER 107.3 for new releases, lively debate and all things screen culture. You can also catch up anytime on the podcast.🎧 Missed the show? Head to the link in our bio for episodes and bonus interviews. #CelluloidDreams #2SER #IWantYourSex #ThePartysOver #Palestine36 #Tony #Dreams #FilmRadio #FilmPodcast

🎟️ Special Guests: Clinton Smith & Peter Buckmaster – Sample People Writer-director Clinton Smith and co-writer Peter Buckmaster join Evan to celebrate the long-awaited return of their 2000 Australian cult classic Sample People. Screening in a brand new 4K restoration at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Strobe Music Film Festival, the film is finally getting the audience it deserves 26 years after its original release. Featuring an outstanding early cast including Joel Edgerton, Kylie Minogue and Ben Mendelsohn, Sample People also boasts a cracking soundtrack of late 90s Australian bands reimagining classic Australian songs from the 70s and 80s.

🎬 Tonight on Celluloid Dreams! 🍿Airs Wednesday | 7:30 PM | 2SER 107.3 ✨ New Releases:Evan heads down The End of Oak Street, where an ordinary suburban neighbourhood in 1982 Detroit is suddenly thrust back into the Jurassic era. Starring Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway, can modern suburban life survive when dinosaurs move into the neighbourhood, or is this one destined for extinction? Gaby checks in to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the latest fever dream from renegade filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun. With little death, big death and plenty of existential angst on the itinerary, is Camp Miasma the holiday destination of the year, or one you'll be checking out of early? 📺 Stream It or Leave It: LanternsLewis shines a light on DC's latest comic book adaptation, Lanterns. Can the Green Lantern finally illuminate a brighter future for DC, or will this latest outing fade into the darkness? 🎟️ Special Guests: Clinton Smith & Peter Buckmaster – Sample PeopleWriter-director Clinton Smith and co-writer Peter Buckmaster join Evan to celebrate the long-awaited return of their 2000 Australian cult classic Sample People. Screening in a brand new 4K restoration at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Strobe Music Film Festival, the film is finally getting the audience it deserves 26 years after its original release. Featuring an outstanding early cast including Joel Edgerton, Kylie Minogue and Ben Mendelsohn, Sample People also boasts a cracking soundtrack of late 90s Australian bands reimagining classic Australian songs from the 70s and 80s. 📻 Tune in at 7:30 PM on 2SER 107.3 for new releases, special guests and streaming verdicts. You can also catch up anytime on the podcast.🎧 Missed the show? Head to the link in our bio for episodes and bonus interviews. #CelluloidDreams #2SER #TheEndOfOakStreet #TeenageSexAndDeathAtCampMiasma #Lanterns #SamplePeople #StrobeMusicFilmFestival #AustralianCinema #FilmRadio #FilmPodcast

🎟️ Special Guest: Mitch Bozzetto – Sydney Underground Film Festival Sydney Underground Film Festival is back, and Assistant Programmer Mitch Bozzetto joins us to unveil this year's program. From boundary-pushing features and cult discoveries to daring documentaries and homegrown talent, we get the lowdown on what makes SUFF one of Australia's most adventurous celebrations of independent cinema.