First things first: MEET WINNIE. She’s two years old, she comes from northern Manitoba by way of the Etobicoke Humane Society, she can climb anything and she lives with us now.

Kate and I brought her home last Thursday night, and after some entirely understandable anxiety she’s settling in and revealing herself to be a very sweet, ridiculously goofy girl.

As you might imagine, that also means our free time has taken a bit of a hit, to the point that I’m posting this about 36 hours later than I would have liked. Oh, and the TIFF screenings have started up for the year, so … yeah, this wasn’t the best time to bring home a dog. But she needed us, and I guess we needed her too, so here we are.

Anyway! Work continues apace, meaning you can and should still enjoy a brand-new episode of Someone Else’s Movie, where I welcome back John Ross Bowie — who has a new podcast of his own, Household Faces, that’s just terrific — to discuss Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, a film for which I do not care at all. But because John and I are both adults, we managed to have a really good conversation about it. No matter who you agree with about the movie, I think you’ll enjoy listening to it.

So go do that!  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher to get it instantly, or download it directly from the web. And then you can feast on all the other stuff I neglected to post about on Friday due to a horrific lack of sleep, starting with last week’s episode of NOW What, in which Rad and I talk about the OnlyFans debacle with sex-work activists Jenna Hynes and Gwen Adora, and discuss the Ted Lasso backlash with television writer and producer — and I Hate It But I Love It podcast co-host — Jocelyn Geddie. No spoilers, because we are not monsters.

And then there’s last week’s What to Watch digest, my stand-alone web reviews of Candyman (good) and Only Murders in the Building (brilliant) and the September lookaheads for Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and CBC Gem.

But remember what I said about TIFF looming in the future? Here’s the start of NOW’s festival coverage, a list of the ten films to which we are most fervently looking forward — but which doesn’t include genre, documentary or Canadian features, because those are getting their own lists.

This is all to explain the absence of Last Night in Soho. Edgar Wright finally brings a picture to TIFF and we don’t highlight it? What am I, an asshole?