Well, I missed another Friday post. (The NOW Streaming newsletter still takes a lot of time to put together, though I’m hoping to figure out the rhythm at some point.)

Here’s what you missed, though: The 100th episode of the NOW What podcast, with Julia Mastroianni and Dr. Amit Arya expanding on Julia’s look at the crisis facing Ontario’s personal support workers, and the crisis we’ll be facing when they burn out; NOW’s weekly What to Watch review package, featuring reviews of all sorts of stuff, and our monthly look-aheads for Netflix, Amazon, Crave, Disney+ and CBC Gem.

It’s a lot. You can maybe see why I didn’t have time to blog about it.

And today, there’s even more! Specifically, a brand-new episode of Someone Else’s Movie, in which Ali LeRoi — whose collaborations with Chris Rock gave us Down to Earth, Head of State and Everybody Hates Chris, and whose powerful first feature The Obituary of Tunde Johnson just dropped on VOD in North America — shares his love for Ben Affleck’s sophomore thriller The Town, accents and all.

We didn’t have a lot of time, but Ali talks as quickly as I do, and we packed as much into 40 minutes as we could. You can find it in all the usual spots: Via subscription on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher, or available for download straight from the web.

And then you should go get today’s NOW What, which finds me talking to Scott Thompson (friend of the other show) and Paul Bellini about the documentary they made about their 80s gay punk band Mouth Congress, and the reunion gig they mounted at the Rivoli a while back in order to prove they could still make some noise. Like the doc (and the band), it’s a raucous and occasionally ridiculous conversation about some very real things. I’m glad we got to do it.

Oh, and schedules being what they are, I’m appearing on a couple of other people’s podcasts this week as well! Yesterday, Doug Lilley and Liam O’Donnell dropped the latest in Cinema Smorgasbord‘s ongoing Dick Miller series, in which I join them to discuss Joe Dante’s use of Miller as a particularly cranky exposition machine in The Howling, and my theory of Walter Paisley as a quantum being along the lines of Marvel’s Uatu the Watcher. We had an awfully good time, and if you enjoyed my appearance on Doug and Liam’s Eric Roberts Is The F***ing Man podcast nearly three years ago, you will enjoy this as well.

And on Wednesday, I’ll be making a return visit to Podcast Like it’s 1999 to walk Phil Iscove and Kenny Neibart through Clint Eastwood’s True Crime and where it stands in the venerated auteur’s slow slide into whatever it is he does now. It’s been a year and a week since I joined Phil and Kenny to try and make sense of Neil Jordan’s In Dreams; now I wonder whether we drove the world spinning off its axis, and if this episode will serve as a course correction. Fingers crossed!