The Clappers

In this special episode of The Clappers, Scott Ryan, the creator and star of Mr Inbetween, tells Karl Quinn where his slow-burning career went wrong, and why he's still reluctant to believe it has all suddenly gone right.

In this episode of The Clappers Karl and Andrew get blown away by First Man, and ponder the wild ride that is American Animals.

Andrew takes a trip to showbag nirvana, and gets in a pickle with the police, while Karl exposes himself to Venom and asks if the world really needs 900 more Marvel characters.

The Clappers talk Joaquin Phoenix and trouble at the ABC

Ladies in Black, men in a pickle

Soul searching

Andrew wonders who today's Prime Minister is, while Karl takes a trip out to Heide to look at - but not sit in - some of the most perfect examples of the work of Australia's most famous furniture designers. Grant and Mary Featherston make a showing at the NGV too, in an exhibition about the NGV. Meanwhile, Karl is still reeling from the ending of Sharp Objects, and Better Call Saul morphs into Breaking Bad redux. It's all here on your favourite pop culture podcast.

Karl tags along as Jimmy Barnes revisits his childhood in Glasgow and Elizabeth in Working Class Boy, the doco based on the stage show based on the book based on the actual crappy and utterly impoverished upbringing of the Cold Chisel frontman. Andrew heads in the other direction, checking out Billionaire Boys Club before heading to the Home Show in search of ... well, what exactly? And that leaves just enough time for a quick wrestle with the 70-odd-foot of gruntingly good fun that is the giant shark movie The Meg. Enjoy.

Another day in Canberra, another bout of bastardry and backstabbing. In this special episode of The Clappers, Andrew and Karl ponder it all and wonder if Peter Dutton retiring to the parlour to do the honourable thing was actually the right thing for the country.

Andrew and Karl are shocked to find themselves on the same page for once, both raving about The Spy Who Dumped Me. But what was it that really caught Andrew's eye, and should he have looked the other way? Plus a satisfyingly unsatisfying collection of short stories by Ottessa Moshfegh, a second look at The Wife, Andrew's brush with a pensioner discount, and more digressions than you can poke a stick at in your favourite dive into pop culture, from Australia, by two blokes, one called Andrew and the other called Karl.

In this special bonus episode, Karl sits down for a chat with big-screen stars Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths about their latest roles - on the small screen - in Patrick Melrose and Dead Lucky respectively.

Zanny Begg's The Beehive at ACMI revisits the 1975 disappearance and presumed murder of journalist and activist Juanita Nielsen in King's Cross, Sydney. The 30-minute video installation has a whopping 1344 possible permutations: is the answer in there somewhere? Plus Andrew reveals why he won't be reading Meg Wolitzer's latest book, Karl makes a case for the SBS series Dead Lucky in spite of its flaws, and how MIFF got it horribly wrong on opening night.

We've all got them, but thankfully not too many are like the mob in Patrick Melrose, the mini-series based on the memoirs of Edward St Aubyn. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Hugo Weaving and it is (says Karl) excellent, if rather gruelling. The Incredibles 2 is much easier going, says Andrew, a long-time-coming sequel that was absolutely worth the wait. In The Wife, meanwhile, Glenn Close is superb as the long-suffering spouse of a novelist (Jonathan Pryce) who is awarded the Nobel Prize - but is that prying journalist (Christian Slater) right in thinking he isn't the real author? All this and more on the latest episode of our favourite podcast for discerning consumers of culture high and low.

We cast the net far and wide, from the merits (or otherwise) of a certain New York piano man to the brilliance of Amy Adams in Sharp Objects, to the (near-)perfection of Taswegian author Robbie Arnott's novel Flame, to a virtual reality film from Melbourne about an amnesiac ANZAC, which has forced its way into Venice. You know the drill: it's all happening here on The Clappers.

In this episode of your favourite pop culture podcast, Andrew and Karl come face to face with the Archibald Prize exhibition, mourn the departure of Richie Porte from le Tour with a broken shoulder, and scale the towering inferno that is Skyscraper with a one-legged Rock. Go out on a limb and take a listen. You know you want to.