Well, it finally happened: After a year and a half, somebody picked Jaws for Someone Else’s Movie.

Better still, it was Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, star of Kim’s Convenience and an all-around great guy, so this week’s episode is an instant favorite.

What else do you need me to tell you? Go listen! It’s available on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or straight from the site. It’s two people talking about Jaws for an hour. There’s nothing better.

Today’s Someone Else’s Movie was supposed to be a bonus show episode dropping later this week, but schedules are fluid things, maaaan.

And it’s just as well,  because now Hugh Gibson‘s take on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country gets a proper release window and a full week at the top of the page rather than a few short days. It’s a great conversation, ranging through 50 years of the franchise and taking in a few other cultural touchstones as well, and while the connection to Hugh’s excellent documentary The Stairs (which opens Friday at the Lightbox; please go see it) may be tenuous, art is a continuum and filmmakers can find inspiration in the oddest places.

Check it out on  iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or get it straight from the site. I expect you’ll enjoy this one even if you’re a green-blooded hobgoblin!

On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, we tackle a title I’m surprised it took this long to get to: Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, the blockbuster indie that changed the face of American cinema.

(I mean, okay, probably it was Reservoir Dogs that started all the chatty-gangster knockoffs, but Pulp‘s financial success certainly made that subgenre more attractive.)

My guest is Noel Clarke, whom you may have seen as Mickey on Doctor Who a while back; he’s gone on to develop a substantial side career for himself as a writer and director of such movies as Adulthood,  4.3.2.1 and The Anomaly. He brought his latest, Brotherhood, to TIFF earlier this month, which is how we got to sit down.

It’s a solid episode, and it’s available right now on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or straight from the source. Pick a platform and enjoy!

This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie was recorded immediately after TIFF, which explains why I’m stammering a little more than usual; I’m running on a sleep deficit of, like, a week.

But it’s a good episode just the same, because my guest is actor-writer-producer Kristin Wallace (whose new movie Moments of Clarity opens this Friday in Toronto), and she brought Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise to the studio.

Maybe you haven’t thought about Thelma & Louise in a while, but you really ought to. It’s a quarter-century old, but its themes are still very much of the moment … which is a pretty sad thought, honestly. We get into that, and a bunch of other stuff, so maybe check it out? Thanks, you’re the best.

You can find it on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or straight from the SEMcast site. Do that! Enjoy! Thelma and Louise would want it that way.

Behold, a rare Monday morning release of Someone Else’s Movie!

Tonight, Alice Lowe comes to town with her first feature, Prevenge — so here’s a very special episode where she digs into Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, a curious and not-entirely-appropriate-for-children children’s fable with Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie and some really freaky puppets.

Like any conversation about a work discovered in one’s youth, it ranges through Alice’s entire personal and professional history. The result is one of my favorite episodes thus far, and I’ve been sitting on it since March. Can’t wait for you to hear it.

So get to it! It’s on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, and downloadable straight from the site. Please enjoy, and take comfort in the knowledge that David Bowie will always be capering around in ridiculous trousers somewhere.

TIFF’s bearing down on us awfully fast, and this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie paves the way a little bit.

In advance of Friday’s world premiere of his new movie Weirdos — which he wrote for his Trigger pals Molly Parker and Bruce McDonald — playwright, actor, director and screenwriter Daniel MacIvor stops in to talk up John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday, the 1971 drama which proved revolutionary for how utterly unrevolutionary it was.

It’s a really good episode, since Daniel comes at the film from the dual perspectives of a lifelong admirer and an intuitive dramatist. I just sit back and appreciate the insights, really.

Be a love and find it on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or download it from the show’s website. I do hope you enjoy it.

Someone Else’s Movie gets its full nerd on this week, as Sam Maggs — who’ll be in town at Fan Expo Friday through Sunday, signing copies of The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy and promoting her new book Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors and Trailblazers Who Changed History — throws down for Serenity, the 2005 spinoff and conclusion to the short-lived Fox series Firefly.

Naturally, the conversation doesn’t stop there, folding in a few other beloved SF franchises and a great deal of love for Joss Whedon, because both Sam and I are big fans of that fella.

As always, you can find the show on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or download the episode straight from the site. Go on, do it now before the Alliance makes it illegal.

Also, Gene Wilder died and I wrote some stuff about him for NOW because that’s what I do. I’m just sad. God dammit, 2016, enough already.

Hey, remember when I went to New York in January and recorded a bunch of episodes of Someone Else’s Movie?

Well, another one drops today, with The Mend writer-director John Magary graciously trooping down to Times Square in the middle of a snowstorm to talk about Wolf, Mike Nichols’ ill-fated attempt to make an upper-class monster movie with clangingly literal metaphors.

The movie isn’t a success, but that makes our conversation all the more interesting; Magary loves the film without reservation while being  entirely aware that it isn’t exactly one for the ages, and I was more than happy to explore that apparent contradition.

It’s available right now, so grab it on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or go straight to the source for a download. It’s fun! Enjoy!

This week on Someone Else’s Movie, my guest is Edge of Winter director Rob Connolly, who takes a slice out of his press schedule to come by the studio and talk about Robert Zemeckis’ Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its influence on his career.

This makes the third Zemeckis movie to land on the show, after Matt Austin Sadowski chose Back to the Future and Andrew Cividino went for Contact. And I can see the appeal: Zemeckis makes films that just bristle with ideas, and it’s no surprise that filmmakers would be drawn to and inspired by his work. I’d really love to get him on the show someday; the guy’s a great interview.

Find it on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or get it right from the source. And here’s a fun fact: Edge of Winter was shot under the title Backcountry, which had to be changed when Adam Macdonald’s bear-attack movie made it out first. And as you may recall, Adam did the podcast as well. So both Backcountry directors are friends of the show! Isn’t that cool?

… well, I think it’s cool.

It’s a Werner Herzog summer at Someone Else’s Movie, as this week’s guest Kazik Radwanski brings Stroszek into the studio just three weeks after Trevor Juras tackled Grizzly Man.

Hey, people pick what they pick — and in any event, I was more than happy to talk about one of Herzog’s stranger projects, if not the strangest — and it lines up with Kaz’ own aesthetic in a really interesting way.

You can find it at all the usual places: On iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher, or directly from the website. The chicken dances for all of us, you know.