Pacific Rim opens tomorrow — well, tonight, technically — and I’m all over it, with a NOW cover interview with Idris Elba, who is generally awesome, and a web Q&A with Guillermo del Toro, who is also fairly remarkable as a person. Also, because a lot of people still think Elba is from Baltimore, here’s a Top 5 of other actors who’ve been passing as Americans.

Oh, and the movie’s pretty great too.

Elsewhere in the paper, I chat with John Landis, who’s coming into town for TIFF’s 35th anniversary salute to National Lampoon’s Animal House next week. Listen to the audio clips on that one; he pronounces “movie” like no one else I’ve ever heard …