Weekender: Running Man and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You take on the perils of parenthood and Rosalia makes a play for album of the year
Episode Description
Rose Byrne puts in an award-winning performance as a woman under pressure in the excellent If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. Glen Powell takes on an all-powerful media company in a dystopian future for the sake of his sick daughter in The Running Man. And Sergei Loznitsa returns to tragic flaws of the Stalin-era legal system in Two Prosecutors. Jason di Rosso from The Screen Show joins the team to talk through a film heavy week.
In music, Ce gives a full-throated endorsement for Rosalia's Lux, which features collaborations with everyone from Björk and Yves Tumor to Caroline Shaw and the London Symphony Orchestra. And Sky is excited for both the new Mountain Goats album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, and the release of one of the band's rarities, Moon Colony Bloodbath.
Plus the Australian Chamber Orchestra takes on Cocteau's Circle and Loznitsa's earlier documentary State Funeral on Mubi.