For Your Reference

This week we review Bad Ancestors, Force of Nature: The Dry 2, The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy, Zone of Interest & How to Have Sex.You can watch Bad Ancestors through Purple Carrot Instagram page. Join us on our weekly Patreon zoom chats! (Sundays @ 10PM SYD)Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Li...

Grapple the juicy mangoes of community as we deliver a one two punch of love and justice. Enter the ring with Monkey Man this week. Check out the video version of our Dev Patel interview.Trigger warning: Monkey Man addresses sexual assault, violence of women and this review mentions the Nirbhaya cas...

 Melbourne Writer-director duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes continue to bring fresh and exciting stories to film.The nightmarish ode to the talk shows of the 70s is, at its core, a tale about the cult of personality and the price of fame...with plenty of supernatural thrills along the way.LATE NIGHT WI...

Pablo Berger is a Spanish award-winning film director and screenwriter with 4 feature films and 25 years in cinema. Robot Dreams has received accolades including being nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 96th Academy Awards and winning Best Animated Film & Best Adapted Screenplay at the 3...

Dev Patel makes his directorial debut with the delicious and salacious world of Monkey Man. We talk about the important of telling our own stories, the multidimensional ‘Dev Gaze’ in addressing culture (class , caste etc) women (the rights and lack of rights), ancient cultures having more than two g...

Get comfortable and sexy as we celebrate 5 years of the For Your Reference podcast! Love and splooshes to all of you for supporting the podcast since Feb 2019 and big ups to friends and lovers that joined us on the red carpet!Red Carpet Pod Twinnies - Sunni & Brandi (Book of Lies), Em (Verbal Di...

Through an assured lens, Cinematographer and Director   Molly Manning Walker boasts an impressive body of work centering human stories.With her Cannes-winning debut, "How to Have Sex," she's taken us on an intimate journey into teenage life and friendships.How to have Sex will be out in Australian c...

Reach into the bag of tried and tired Hollywood to put Indigenous pain in the periphery to centre and focus on the white people. Pillage and plunder but make it cute with The Killers of the Flower Moon this week.Every February, we kick off our Reference Degustation. A month-long celebration of the s...

Enter a familiar world with even more familiar faces at pit stops, cigarette breaks and retellings. Charge with a gun, knife you run with The Irishman this week.Every February, we kick off our Reference Degustation. A month-long celebration of the sizzling Scorsese cinema for our fifth year of the F...

Print out the transcripts, learn what pleases a beautiful woman and acquire sustenance through the boob buffet. Open your mouth and have something to say with The Aviator this week.Every February, we kick off our Reference Degustation. A month-long celebration of the sizzling Scorsese cinema for our...