Film Shapes

Film Shapes

Shady and Roly discuss the latest film releases, with rotating guest contributors and occasional interviews.

Episodes

August 24, 2025 11 mins

Roly and Shady waffle about The Ballad of Wallis Island on the way back from the Luna cinema in Leederville.

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Shady enlists the psychological skills of Tap to talk him through the new Mike Leigh film Hard Truths.

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March 9, 2025 22 mins

Shady has a chat with Cibely about the award-winning Brazilian film, I'm Still Here.

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February 15, 2025 18 mins

Roly and Shady have a chat about the Perth Festival film, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat.

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January 1, 2025 69 mins

Shady and Roly are joined by Parizad and Merv to go over their favourite five films of 2024. We also named our turkeys from last year. Top fives were as follows:

Parizad: 5. Operation Mincemeat; 4. Remembering Gene Wilder; 3. Gladiator 2; 2. Emilia Perez; 1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Roly: 5. The Apprentice; 4. The Lost Leonardo; 3. Kneecap; 2. The Greatest Night in Pop; 1. A Different Man - Merv: 5. Woman of the ...

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October 25, 2024 24 mins

Shady is joined by Nicola to talk about a couple of the films from the recent St. Ali Italian Film Festival.

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September 23, 2024 30 mins

Merv and Tap join Shady to inject The Substance.

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June 28, 2024 20 mins

Roly and Shady have a chat with Suzanne Worner, General Manager of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival.

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May 25, 2024 13 mins

Roly and Shady have a chat about Turkish legal drama, Hesitation Wound. But first, there's a bit about the Revelation Perth International Film Festival programme launch for 2024. This edition of the famous Perth festival runs from July 3-14.

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January 14, 2024 67 mins

Shady and Roly are joined by Ben and Merv - with Parizad in subspace - to go over their favourite five films of 2023. We also provided our worst - or most disappointing - films from last year. Top fives were as follows:

Ben: 5. Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves; 4. May December; 3. Killers of the Flower Moon; 2. Blackberry; 1. How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Roly: 5. Decadence and Downfall: The World's Most Expensive Party...

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November 2, 2023 15 mins

Roly and Shady walk to the car from The Luna Cinema in Leederville after a screening of Foe. Fair to say, Shady gets a couple of things wrong in this pod and also reveals a staggeringly unpro lack of knowledge. Roly mostly gets away unscathed:)

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October 22, 2023 37 mins

Parizad joins Roly and Shady to discuss many things related to Gareth Edwards's new film, The Creator. Stay tuned for a post-outro contribution by Merv.

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August 15, 2023 43 mins

Merv and Parizad join Roly and Shady for a discussion about the latest Christopher Nolan film, Oppenheimer. Fair to say, opinions varied.

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June 12, 2023 40 mins

Shady is joined by Roly, Parizad and Merv to postulate on the latest Guardians of the Galaxy film; as well as the MCU in general; going to the cinema alone; Avatar 2; Ivan Sen's Limbo; cinema volume levels; Barton Fink; and apples (again).

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May 11, 2023 11 mins

Merv and Shady get stuck in a carpark and then have a chat about November, a film about the days following the terror attacks in Paris in 2015. There's also a mini-wrap of the 2023 French Film Festival.

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February 20, 2023 13 mins

Roly and Shady wander through noisy Leederville traffic while chewing over the ideas in Aftersun.

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January 13, 2023 73 mins

Shady and Roly are joined by Ben, Parizad and Merv to run down their favourite five films of 2022 (though not necessarily made in 2022). We also vented about our worst - or most disappointing - films from last year. Top fives were as follows:

Ben: 5. Heist; 4. Nope; 3. Quo Vadis, Aida?; 2. Barry Lyndon; 1. RRR - Roly: 5. The Forgiven; 4. The Third Man; 3. Brian and Charles; 2. The Quiet Girl; 1. Vengeance - Parizad: 5. The Lost Cit...

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December 3, 2022 14 mins

Merv and Shady chat about Violent Night on the drive back from the cinema. Chuckles and blood.

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October 16, 2022 24 mins

Tim Mummery, director of Namarali, joins Shady for a chat about his film. 

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October 6, 2022 33 mins

Perth music & arts journo, Bob Gordon joins Roly and Shady to discuss the new David Bowie documentary, Moonage Daydream.

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