It’s a little chaotic around here, as I’m off to the UK tonight — heading directly to the airport after I introduce The School of Rock at Harbourfront, weather permitting. (And if the weather does permit, you should come down — last week’s season launch was packed, and Dirty Dancing always plays well with a crowd.)
But while I’m doing all my running around, you can kick back and enjoy a fresh new episode of Someone Else’s Movie, in which longtime producer William Woods, whose feature debut The Outer Threat opens across Canada on Friday, offering a surprisingly gentle contrast to Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. Will wrote his movie well before Spielberg’s came to light, but it’s a remarkable coincidence — and a nice demonstration of how a movie can turn its limitations into strengths.
It’s perhaps not a coincidence that Will wanted to talk about M. Night Shyamalan’s Unforgiven, another ground-level take on a fantastical story — and one that showcases all of Shyamalan’s strengths and reveals very few of his weaknesses. Really, the only flaw here is that something was wrong with my mic when we recorded the episode, and my voice has this weird buzz on it. I’ve since solved the problem, but it affected next week’s recording as well. Hopefully you can focus past it. My guests sound great, and that’s the important bit.
Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or download the episode directly from the web and listen to it while you deadlift increasingly larger weights. Who knows what your top strength will be? Lift a car!
And then, get caught up on your Shiny Things reading! Last week’s releases The Christophers, Obsession, Mother Mary, Deep Water, Fuze and Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, and in Friday’s What’s Worth Watching dispatch for paid subscribers I reviewed The Odyssey, Lucky and Jesse Noah Klein’s Best Boy. Have you upgraded your subscription yet? C’mon! It’s a moral duty, probably!
Anyway, must dash, pip pip. I’ll be back next Tuesday in time to introduce Chicago. Wanna see how I look after a day of transcontinental travel? Of course you do!