Framed

For this bonus ep, we’re answering one very important question: what is the most underrated movie of all time? From Anaconda and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle to The Room, The Disaster Artist, Christopher Guest mockumentaries and This Is Spinal Tap.

This week on Framed, we’re diving headfirst into the internet’s most chaotic movie conspiracy theories. Did Sandy actually die in Grease? Is Ferris Bueller even real? Did Kevin McCallister grow up to become Jigsaw? Was Jack from Titanic secretly a time traveller? And is Quentin Tarantino building one giant, blood-soaked cinematic universe? We unpack the film theories that almost make sense, the ones that absolutely don’t, and the movie myths we kind of want to believe anyway.

In this bonus episode, we answer a listener question from Caroline: what actually makes a perfect pop song? From Robyn and Whitney to Prince, Gaga, Britney and beyond, we sit down and talk about what turns a good song into an all-time pop classic.Songs that you need to listen to:Dancing on My Own — Robyn I Wanna Dance with Somebody — Whitney Houston When Doves Cry — Prince She’s Homeless — Crystal WatersNo Scrubs — TLC Born This Way — Lady Gaga Bad Romance — Lady Gaga Groove Is in the Heart — Deee-Lite Ray of Light — Madonna Toxic — Britney Spears

This week on Framed, we head to São Paulo for a heist that feels less Ocean’s Eleven and more absolute chaos. On the final day of a library exhibition in Brazil, two men walked in and ripped rare works off the walls, shoved them into blue Ikea bags, and disappeared into the city in under ten minutes. Among the stolen works were valuable Matisse prints from Jazz and engravings tied to Brazilian cultural history. We get into the art, the suspects and a man nicknamed Gargamel that we spend way too much time talking about.

Season three is here, the studio has changed, and after a brief detour through Adelaide, Midsumma and the magic of Melbourne dinner theatre, we get into one of the wildest art scandals in modern history. This week on Framed, we’re diving into the collapse of New York’s legendary Knoedler Gallery — the elite institution that sold fake masterpieces to some of the richest collectors in the world. We unpack the forged Jackson Pollocks and Rothkos, the mysterious “Mr X” story and the question that still hangs over the whole mess: did Ann Freedman know? It’s an art world meltdown so huge it brought down a gallery that had been operating for 165 years. Watch next / further readingMade You Look

This week we wrap up the year and ask 'what the hell happened in 2025?' We recap our top pop culture moments from Labubu to Katy Perry in space. Then Joel gives us his hot or not list for 2026, can anyone say dinner theatre? Come along and join us in a world of whimsy for the final episode of the year!