From the Lighthouse is a literary podcast published out of the Department of English at Macquarie University. Your hosts Dr Stephanie Russo and Dr Michelle Hamadache love to talk about anything to do with books, from the latest bestsellers and prize-winners, film and television adaptations of books to bookish news. Join us as we chat all things literary. For more information visit the MQ English Department webpage at www.engl.mq.edu.au
The Beheading Game: An Interview with Rebecca Lehmann
The Beheading Game (2013) · Aug 27, 2026
Film Review: The Substance
The Substance (2024) · Dec 17, 2024
To Gaze or not to Gaze: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) · Aug 31, 2021
HSC Enrichment Session: The Tempest and Hag-Seed with Professor Louise d'Arcens
The Tempest (2010) · Aug 17, 2021
HSC Enrichment Session: The Truman Show with Dr Ryan Twomey
The Truman Show (1998) · Aug 17, 2021
HSC Enrichment Session: Jane Austen's Emma with Dr Stephanie Russo
Emma (1996) · Aug 17, 2021
HSC Enrichment Session: Richard III & Looking for Richard with Dr Stephanie Russo
Looking for Richard (1996) · Aug 17, 2021
HSC Enrichment Session: John Keats & Bright Star with Dr Geoffrey Payne
Bright Star (2009) · Aug 17, 2021
Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko: A Tale of Fire and Ice
Kuroneko (1968) · Nov 3, 2020
The Bored and the Beautiful - Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura
L'Avventura (1960) · Oct 20, 2020
Graham Greene's 'A Little Place Off the Edgware Road' and Paddy OReilly's 'Baggage Claim'
Baggage Claim (2013) · Aug 18, 2020
"The mother's injuries are to be handed down to the daughter": Love and Destruction in Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata
Autumn Sonata (1978) · Aug 4, 2020
The Relentlessness of Memory in Michael Haneke's Caché
Caché (2005) · Jul 21, 2020
Classic Teendaptation #6: Get Over It
Get Over It (2001) · Jul 7, 2020
Classic Teendaptation #5: She's All That
She's All That (1999) · Jun 23, 2020
Classic Teendaptation #4: Easy A
Easy A (2010) · Jun 9, 2020
Classic Teendaptation #2: She's the Man
She's the Man (2006) · May 14, 2020
Classic Teendaptation #1: 10 Things I Hate About You
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) · Apr 28, 2020
Double Indemnity: THE Film Noir
Double Indemnity (1944) · Mar 17, 2020
Love it or Hate it? The New BBC/Netflix Dracula
Dracula (2025) · Jan 21, 2020
Noir Files #1: Laura - The Unknowable Femme Fatale
Laura (1944) · Jan 7, 2020
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile: A Reference to Bundy or the Netflix Film?
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) · Jun 18, 2019
A Christmas Carol: or the Case of the Misunderstood Capitalist
A Christmas Carol (2009) · Dec 18, 2018
From the Filmhouse with Stephanie and Kirstin: Reviewing Mary Shelley (2018)
Mary Shelley (2017) · Jul 10, 2018
Bonus Episode: Jane Austen's Emma with Alice Kouzmenko
Emma (1996) · Jun 19, 2018
Elf, Rudolph, Mannequin Mom, Mr Hanky, and the Osmonds - it must be the Christmas Show!
Elf (2003) · Dec 19, 2017
A Killer Obsession: The Latest Adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) · Nov 21, 2017
25 Years later and we're still Looking for Alibrandi
Looking for Alibrandi (2000) · Jul 5, 2017
The Handmaid's Tale : Offred the Unman of Atwood's Dystopic Future or the woMan of Today's Feminist Nightmare
The Handmaid's Tale (1990) · Apr 26, 2017