Host Marc Fennell on the set of SBS Mastermind Australia.
Thank you @sbsaustralia.bsky.social. #SBSonDemand allows me to enjoy @marcfennell.bsky.social hosting quiz show #MastermindAustralia in the middle of the night. 📺 #SBS
fresco painting of a man and woman sitting on a couch together
#SBSOnDemand The Etruscans: Mysterious Civilisation, 2022. Basic doco giving just a tantalising glimpse at this intriguing pre-Roman society. This super scene is part of a fresco in the Tomb of the Shields, Tarquinia, Italy, c.310 BC.
a view of a city ruins with a volcano in the background, some frescos of figures against a black background, and a pair of earrings with pairs of dropped pearls
two men grin behind cameras and a woman is reflected in the lens of one
#SBSOnDemand Pompeii: The New Dig, Season 2, 2025. Lovely doco about the excavation of a huge house in Pompeii (about a third remains unexcavated) and the spectacular surprises it slowly reveals. Features the delightful Dr Sophie Hay.
@feather1952 if you can stream SBS On Demand, you might want to try The Danish Woman. It's a cracker. She's quite something.
https://app.trakt.tv/shows/the-danish-woman
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"A King in New York" (1957) The Charlie Chaplin comedy-drama is available on #SBSonDemand. #film 🎥 When the deposed king of Estonia seeks shelter in New York, he accidentally becomes a celebrity. He's then falsely accused of being a communist.
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...
a Screen Shot From TV Time App for rge Norwegian Drama Called Nepobaby
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A Screen Shot From The TV Time App. For the Norwegian show called NepoBaby
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Watched the 1979 Malayalam movie Kummatty last night. SBS has the 2021 digital restoration version, so pretty clean (thanks Mr. Scorsese!)
NB: leaves SBS On Demand at end of March.
It's a very slow story, meandering along a simple plot, showcasing rural life in Malabar from that era. The […]
On ABC Classic #ScreenSounds, host @dangolding.com presented music by women composers, incl. Australian composer Caitlin Yeo's breathtakingly achingly beautiful music for the tv mini-series "New Gold Mountain" (12min in) 🎥 📺 🎶 #IWD2026 It's avail on #SBSonDemand!
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
I almost only get gambling ads through seppo content creator sponsorships on youtube, I don't watch TV and it's #SBSOnDemand that we have to deal with gambling advertising rot. #CouchPeloton
This week we watched the BBC documentary Once Upon a Time in Space. It's excellent!
It's not a comprehensive look at the space programs. It's not technically detailed. It's very human. Mostly, it's real astronauts and cosmonauts, and some support staff and family, telling their stories and […]
Marc Fennell is back with another of his trademark highly-engaging documentaries. This one is a doozy! I mean, they're all a bit of a roller coaster ride but this one is just wild!
Australia's Greatest Conman?
"Marc Fennell sets out to uncover the truth behind John Friedrich, the man who […]
I just finished watching another Spanish movie. (This one from Mexico)
Spanish movies are seriously fucked up. This is my considered opinion. Is it the language? The Catholic torture? Who knows. Fucked up.
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SBS has a documentary called Fengyang: The Forgotten Imperial City, covering an archaeological dig on a 14th century palace site. Mostly in Mandarin with some French, subtitled.
It's a slow-paced exploration of the discovery and resurrection of one of the great palaces of the Ming era. Some […]
#DjangoUnchained (2012) is available free on #SBSonDemand for another 16hrs. Every time I watch it, I notice more moments of seething fury at the #racism. (I realise not everyone agrees this is a great film. For me, it's a reminder that this evil still exists.) 🎥 www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...
four photographs, a black and white photo of two men, above that part of a colourful target hit with arrows, then at top and bottom two film stills, one of a ballet dancer with a paper man in a dark garden, one of serried ranks nuns
#SBSOnDemand Made in England, The Films of Powell and Pressburger, 2024. Gorgeous and very personal reflection on the astonishing films made by this unlikely filmmaking pair, from a compelling Martin Scorsese.
If, like me, your knowledge or understanding of the Troubles is limited, watch #Trespasses on SBS. Devastating. #sbsondemand
Watching @kenlburns.bsky.social #TheAmericanRevolution on #sbsondemand Complex, nuanced, and peppered with details and perspectives not always present in histories of the Revolution. Also occasionally triggering given the situation in the US. Highly recommended. www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...
I am so glad I found #BlueLights. S1 was breathtakingly good. Every episode. #SBSOnDemand 🚔 📺 😊
I've just discovered BBC's #BlueLights on #SBSOnDemand. No spoilers please but S1E1 "The Code" was brilliant. 🚔 📺 www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...
film poster showing, under a rainbow and the neon-style words ‘Logan’s Run’, two people running in front of a cityscape above a collage of characters and events
#SBSOnDemand Logan’s Run, 1976. Blundering sci-fi with special effects that haven’t aged well, that doesn’t do much with its attractive stars and interesting premise, and peters out towards the end. Still, tolerably enjoyable.
film poster showing an inverted woman’s head and long arms, her hands around the neck of a man, both surrounded by darkness
#SBSOnDemand Thirst, 2009. Nice little priest-as-vampire tale, a little too long but full of quandaries & good intentions gone awry! Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) directs Song Kang-ho (The Host, Snowpiercer, Parasite). When I saw this at MIFF I was amazed at the transgressive blasphemy.
three stills from a film showing a scene from each of three film segments, people in abstracted environments based on the outback
#SBSOnDemand BeDevil, 1993. Tracey Moffatt, renowned visual artist, wrote, directed & starred in this landmark film, replete with her trademark abstractly staged, beautiful ‘reality’. Only trouble is, it’s not particularly fun to watch. Carl Vine’s music is great though.
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#SBSOnDemand Nightwatch, 1994. Danish horror: an unexpectedly squeamish medical student works nights at the city morgue, but when a serial killer’s bodies end up there things start unraveling. OK thriller, mainly interesting for early performances from future stars of Game of Thrones & Killing Eve.
poster for a film showing, in black and deep red, a boy on a tricycle riding on a carpet and a man walking down the corridor towards him
#Halloweeny #SBSOnDemand Doctor Sleep, 2019. An inexplicable box office flop, this is a highly superior sequel to The Shining that somehow pleased Stephen King as well as providing satisfying fan-service, bringing genuine chills and a fabulous performance by Rebecca Ferguson.
photograph from a film showing a man in a bathroom, with a woman’s head reflected in a circular mirror
photograph from a film showing a series of small mirrors fracturing the reflection of a woman kissing a man
photograph from a film showing the reflection of a hidden woman multiplied in a glass partition, one reflection merging with the man standing at the glass door
#SBSOnDemand The Flower of my Secret, 1995. Slightly subdued but gorgeously proportioned Almodóvar that obviously meant a lot to him as three of his later films were spin-offs. Marisa Paredes is fantastic.
graphic of a black woman’s show with the very high heel replaced by a gun, on a red background
#SBSOnDemand High Heels, 1991. Almodóvar’s mother-daughter melodrama is patchy but has lovely performances from Victoria Abril & Marisa Paredes; lip-synching & disguises are so sloppy they draw attention to the theatricality of the whole enterprise, suggesting that ultimately they’re unimportant.
