Everything I’m doing this week is weighted by the death of Jean-Marc Vallee, just 58 years old, on Sunday night. Let this be the last tragedy we share for a while, because fuck this year, fuck this miserable year so hard.

I thought about mentioning Jean-Marc’s passing at the top of today’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, but ultimately decided that’d be too weird; it’s not germane to the movie (Heather Lenz’ 2018 documentary Kusama Infinity) or the guest (actor and singer Bronagh Gallagher), and since the conversation happened back in May we are all entirely oblivious to his passing.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher and get the episode immediately, or download it directly from the web. Spend half an hour in a world that still has Jean-Marc Vallee in it, and think about how much nicer that world was.

And then you can go on to read the reviews I wrote last week, even though I was technically on vacation. I tackled Being the Ricardos, A Journal For Jordan and Writing with Fire in Friday’s What to Watch page along with The Tragedy of Macbeth, but I’d rather you’d read my longer stand-alone review for that one.

That’s everything! Go do something nice for yourself, if you have the time. Or spend the rest of the week watching C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria, Cafe de Flore, Demolition and/or Wild, and thinking about who we’ve lost.