This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie features a guest I consider a friend: Nimisha Mukerji, whose career I’ve been tracking since she arrived in 2009 with the devastating 65_Red Roses. And she picked the show’s first documentary: Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein’s documentary An Honest Liar, about  the life and secrets of conjurer-turned-crusader James Randi.

It’s a great movie and a very good episode, if I do say so myself. You can find it on  iTunes and Stitcher, or download it directly. I think you’ll enjoy it.

It’s been six months since I launched Someone Else’s Movie, and I’m really happy with what the show has become. People seem to be responding to it, I’ve met some terrific people and have booked some really great guests for the rest of the year.

In fact, one of them is on this week’s show. Alan Zweig is a filmmaker I’ve admired for a really long time, and when the opportunity came along to snag him for a TIFF-timed episode … well, you’d best believe I jumped at it.

He picked The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which is one of those little, perfect movies I’d been expecting to come up in the course of the podcast — though I didn’t expect a documentarian  to select it. In retrospect it makes perfect sense, of course; shot entirely on location and immersing us completely in the story of Robert Mitchum’s broken-down bagman, Peter Yates’ minimalist drama is the crime picture is as cinema verite, and it was a pleasure to let Alan pull on that thread.

It’s up now on  iTunes and Stitcher, or you can get it straight from the site. It’s a good listen.

Oh, and also I talked to Patrick Stewart over the weekend, and he was a delight. But then he always is.

The next few episodes of Someone Else’s Movie will be TIFF-oriented, on account of I am clever, and this week’s is one I’ve been looking forward to posting for a while: Katie Boland, who’ll be at the festival as a producer of Boxing and an actor in Born to Be Blue, tackles Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

My love of this film is not a secret; it made my Top Ten of the last decade and continues to destroy me whenever I think about it. It turns out Katie feels the same way about it, so I’m just proud we didn’t collapse into blubbering tears at any point in the recording.

You can find it on iTunes and Stitcher, or pull it straight off the website. It doesn’t really matter how you listen to it, though. Just listen, and enjoy it.

It’s the first September episode of Someone Else’s Movie, and for your listening pleasure we have Cara Gee, star of Strange Empire and Empire of Dirt, discussing Norman Jewison’s 1973 adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar.

Hey, people like what they like. But Cara has some very good reasons for loving this very strange creation, so just have faith and hear her out.

You can find it on iTunes and Stitcher, or straight from the website. Hallelujah. Praise be.

Oh, and I also wrote some words about Wes Craven for NOW. Probably should have blogged that yesterday, but I was insanely busy …

Someone Else’s Movie is back in the basement this week, as Backcountry writer-director Adam Macdonald limps over to express his love for Rob Zombie’s 2005 splatter-thing The Devil’s Rejects.

I’m not a huge fan of that one — okay, I kinda hated it — but I do love the films that inspired it, so that turned out to be an interesting way into the picture, and the gritty horror renaissance of the era. And Adam is both enthusiastic and knowledgeable, which is exactly what you want in a guest. (PSA: Backcountry opens across Canada this Friday, and arrives on Blu-ray and DVD in the US next Tuesday on the Scream Factory label.)

You can find the show on iTunes and Stitcher, or download it straight from the website. Get to clicking!

Well, this was a great one.

Scott Thompson — actor, comedian, podcaster, Guy Who’s Finally Back On Hannibal As Of Thursday — is my guest this week on Someone Else’s Movie, and he picked Howard Hawks’ 1953 musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell and that magnificent “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” production number. The movie was delightful, and the conversation even more so; Thompson is a natural performer, as you’d expect, but he’s also a very savvy interpreter of cinema, even if he doesn’t think he is.

Also, I taught him what “rapey” means. Hashtag proud.

As usual, you can find it on  iTunes and Stitcher, or via direct download. Caution, language.