The Betoota Advocate presents a chat show about the films you love. Join the movie maestro Alexei Toliopoulos in ‘The Last Video Store’ - located in the outback town of Betoota. Its a special hub of culture and memories with every single movie ever made lining its infinite shelves. Alexei talks with a guest about their most cherished cinematic selections, before he sends them of with a bespoke film recommendation based on their taste. The rental combo is: 1 x New Release 2 x Weeklies 1 x Sta ...
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Ruel is a Pop Star on the Verge of Film Obsession
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At just 22, REUL has already scored over 3 billion global streams, earned platinum and gold singles, and sold out tours worldwide. Now, the hitmaker is finding new inspiration in the darkened glow of the cinema. In a truly great chat Ruel and Alexei genuinely reawaken the inspired nostalgia of falling in love with film for the first time. Alexei an…
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Paul Dempsey RETURNS to pick up ONE MOVIE AFTER ANOTHER
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The Something for Kate and Fanning Dempsey National Park frontman triumphantly returns to the Last Video Store. Paul Dempsey takes us deeper into his love of cinema as he dusts off a Kubrick classic, the iconic work of a Russian master and gets into the new release of the moment ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - all while Alexei finds out if DREAM SCENARI…
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The 8 Best Vampire Films of All-time with Maria Lewis
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It’s the year of the vampire in cinema so what better way to celebrate the spooky season this Halloween. Acclaimed author and vampire/horror expert Maria Lewis (The Graveyard Shift and The Phantom Never Dies podcast) bites into a list of the greatest films in the vampire cinema canon to add to your Halloween watch list. There’s only one rule… NDA (…
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Alison Wonderland nerds out on JAWS and her husband Ti West
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One of the most acclaimed artists in electronic dance music, Alison Wonderlands’ new album Ghost World sounds like a cinematic score destined for a film, so we had to get her into the Last Video Store to pick up her favourite films. Alison and Alexei get their teeth stuck into Jaws for its 50th Anniversary and talk about her husband, master horror …
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Nina Oyama returns to talk about the most provocative comedy film
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One of our favourite guests Nina Oyama returns to The Last Video Store to rate Alexei’s recommendation (the Korean film MICROHABITAT) and pick up controversial, dark, provactive and envelope pushing big screen comedies. Alexei’s screening at the Sydney Opera House - Saturday Film Club: Bram Stoker’s Dracula Nov 1 Follow ALEXEI TOLIOPOULOS on Letter…
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It’s finally happened, TAKE 5 meets THE LAST VIDEO STORE. Zan Rowe, one of Australia’s greatest broadcasters and minds on music joins the movie brain himself Alexei Toliopoulos for one of the very best conversations on film and cinematic tastes. The new season of TAKE 5 is out in its entirety on ABC iview NOW and includes Kevin Bacon and our very o…
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LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS star Gemma Chua-Tran loves volcano movies and hates singing
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Heartbreak High student turned cosmic hero and star of the outrageously funny new Australian animated comedy LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS, Gemma Chua-Tran enters the Last Video Store. LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS is out NOW in Australian cinemas, alongside Gemma, the film stars so many of your favourite funny Australians like Aunty Donna and Demi Lardner. So l…
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SPLITSVILLE director Michael Angelo Covino and the Italian comedies that influenced his new film with Dakota Johnson
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Splitsville, it’s a incisive comedy about modern relationships with particular style and a fight sequence most action movies would envy. It’s the second film from star/filmmaker Michael Angelo Covino who joins Alexei Toliopoulos in the Last Video Store to pick up a few of the films that influence his cinematic voice and style + he’ll get a couple o…
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Dacre Montgomery and Samuel Van Grinsven are the biggest film nerds
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Actor Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things) and filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven (Sequin in a Blue Room) might just be the two most passionate film lovers to enter the Last Video Store. They’ve just collaborated on the exquisite new film WENT UP THE HILL, a ghost story quite unlike any you may have seen before. Also starring Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread)…
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WEDNESDAY creators Alfred Gough & Miles Millar are experts of adaptation
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From Superman’s origins in Smallville, to modern day Adams Family in Wednesday and a list of the most tonally diverse sequels (including Herbie: Fully Loaded and Spiderman 2), Al Gough and Miles Millar are Hollywood’s experts on adaptation and sequels. Alexei Toliopoulos sits down with the creators of Wednesday to talk video store memories, working…
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Col Needham, the founder of IMDb, has seen over 16,000 films
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Recommending a film to Col Needham is no easy task… His personal film diary literally evolved into THE comprehensive catalogue of all films, the Internet Movie Database. The founder of IMDb and quite possibly the most supreme movie loving guest we’ll ever have on The Last Video Store to pick up his favourite films. Alexei joins Col on one of the gr…
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Amy Nicholson Unspools her Favourite Movie Musicals
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She wrote the book on Tom Cruise (for Cahiers Du Cinema) and has examined cinema greatness with Paul Scheer on the great film podcast UNSPOOLED, now while in Australia for the Melbourne International Film Festival, Amy Nicholson enters the Last Video Store to talk big screen movie musicals with Alexei Toliopoulos. Follow ALEXEI TOLIOPOULOS on Lette…
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The Surprising Film That Inspired The Fairbairn Brothers' Love Of Horror
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Jaxon and Lachlan Fairbairn are comedians, creatives, brothers and huge film lovers, who you might recognise from their huge following on YouTube or Instagram. And we lied in the title; only one of them loves horror films. The other would prefer to cosy up with a classic action film (we'll leave you to find out which one).They join Alexei this week…
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