As Someone Else’s Movie approaches its eleventh anniversary — with its 600th episode not far behind! — the choices are getting more eclectic, and guests are showing a willigness to bring out the big guns. It’s really fun! People don’t seem to be intimidated by the classics any more; I’ve got some episodes coming up on movies you’ll be shocked to learn hadn’t been covered a decade ago.

For example! This week, Toronto comedian and sketch performer Tiyawnda, who’s performing her new show One Butthole After Another at TO Sketchfest this Saturday and next Thursday,  picked Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs, easily one of the most influential thrillers ever made. We wouldn’t have Seven without it, or literally hundreds of television procedurals, including The X-Files and everything that followed in its genre-bending wake*.

I’ve been waiting a really long time for someone to pick this, and it’s a fun conversation that starts with Tiyawnda’s entirely inappropriate discovery of the film and spirals out to the various other adaptations of Harris’ books, up to and including Bryan Fuller‘s brilliant Hannibal series. We also throw around our picks for a new Starling, should someone decide to take another run at the property.

You don’t want  to miss it, so dive right in! Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or just download the episode directly from the web and listen to it in your memory palace while awaiting an interesting conversation. It’s a good one.

And feel free to revisit our sixth anniversary episode, where Come True director Anthony Scott Burns tackled the first film to bring Hannibal the Cannibal to the big screen: Michael Mann’s Manhunter. It’s a pandemic episode, but weirdly enough that suits the vibe.

Over at Shiny Things, I’m back to full strength with reviews of  new releases Song Sung Blue and Deathstalker and Warner’s 4K upgrades of All the President’s Men and Ben-Hur, as well as shout-outs to three new Warner Archive collections. And subscribers to the paid tier can look forward to Friday’s What’s Worth Watching recommendations, so don’t forget to upgrade!

Also, welcome to March! It gets warmer now, right?

*Yes, I know Chris Carter was mostly ripping off The Night Stalker, but Dana Scully wouldn’t exist without Clarice Starling; he even gave her an episode where she interviewed an incarcerated serial killer!**

**Yes, it was technically a mash-up of Lambs and William Peter Blatty’s Exorcist III. Chris Carter has never had an original idea in his life.