This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is a little on the grim side, as Joey Klein — writer-director of the powerful two-hander The Other Half — brings Josh Mond’s regrettably overlooked 2015 drama James White to the show.

It’s a serious movie, and the conversation is serious as well; we discuss movies about characters in crisis, the importance of going all the way with a story and the challenge of the white-people-problems subgenre. But it’s also about a movie we both found really moving.

You can find it at all the usual spots — iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher — or download it straight from the web. And please go see The Other Half when it opens theatrically in Toronto and Vancouver this Friday. It’s a movie that really benefits from the cinematic experience.

This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is a little more thoughtful than most, being a conversation with Second City performer (and wicked awesome improviser) Becky Johnson about Terrence Malick’s Badlands.

You can find it at all the usual spots: iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and straight from the site. Check it out! It’s a good episode!

You’re almost certainly tired of hearing me say this, but I’m really enjoying this thing. I hope you’re getting some pleasure out of it too.

You thought this weekend was overstuffed already? Here’s one more thing: A bonus episode of Someone Else’s Movie with Douglas freaking Trumbull.

Yup. The guy who created the visual effects for 2001 and Close Encounters uses MGM’s 1962 Cinerama behemoth How the West Was Won as the jumping-off point for a conversation about all manner of bleeding-edge cinema, rolling through his own career and his work with high-resolution, high-speed image capture.

It’s an unusual episode of the show, since we barely discuss the actual movie, but it was a conversation I was delighted to have, and I’m happy to let you all listen in.

Grab it on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or straight from the site. And enjoy.

This week on Someone Else’s Movie, my guest is actor Torri Higginson, an actor who’s been in everything from The English Patient to Stargate Atlantis, and who’s currently starring on the CBC series This Life.  She spent most of the recording scratching Dexter’s ear, because she’s a good person.

Torri picked Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, a movie of quiet compassion and endless beauty, and let me tell you: It’s exactly the movie we need to be thinking about right now. We recorded this episode a few weeks back and Trump’s name doesn’t even come up (which should be a nice break for most listeners) but its images of a divided Berlin on the verge of recovery after decades of ideological separation seem awfully relevant once again.

You know the drill: Find it on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or get it straight from the site. And be kind to each other. It’s literally all we have.

This week on Someone Else’s Movie, actor Dan Payne — who played the zombie Mathew Bruckner in The Cabin in the Woods and Obsidian in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and co-stars with Idris Elba under several pounds of latex in Star Trek Beyond — sits down with some big love for Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths.

Grab the show from all the usual places: iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or straight from the web. And enjoy it, because that’s what it’s there for!

Also, see Star Trek Beyond and watch Idris Elba smack Dan in the head unexpectedly. Just a couple of aliens, having a moment.

Also also, here is my NOW interview with Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken, which I mention in the show. Good times. Really good times.

This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is a personal triumph for me, as I land my first cast member of The Thrilling Adventure Hour — that wonderfully goofy live show and podcast that ran for a decade in Los Angeles. And in a weird twist, it’s Mark Gagliardi, who was the only cast member absent from the one show I managed to attend.

(He played Croach the Tracker, faithful Martian companion of Marc Evan Jackson’s Sparks Nevada; he felt really bad about that when I told him, explaining that he missed only three shows in ten years. We’re cool.)

Aaaanyway. Mark picked Center Stage, Nicholas Hytner’s 2000 drama about the new class at a New York ballet academy; it’s basically Fame for a new generation; theater kids love it, Mark is a theater kid, we had plenty to talk about.

You can get it from all the usual places:  It’s on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or you can download it straight from the source.  Go do that! And maybe also check out We Got This, the really entertaining podcast Mark does with his fellow Adventurekateer Hal Lublin. Their very special Halloween episode should be dropping tomorrow, and you won’t want to miss it.

Hey, remember when I went to New York earlier this month? It was all for you guys! And the proof of that is in this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, in which the remarkable Jean Grae settles in for a conversation about the importance of David Fincher’s Fight Club to her creative process, and how she’s living its lessons as best she can.

Open your mind and give it a listen. You can find it at all the usual places: iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, the website. You may not decide to rethink your personality or anything, but I do believe you’ll enjoy yourself.