This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie really earns its Explicit tag, as my guest Maxwell McCabe-Lokos descends into Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1975 Saló, or The 120 Days of Sodom .

The resulting discussion may be an unpleasant listen (in fact, I pretty much guarantee that) but it’s also an illuminating one, exploring Max’ artistic evolution and process as much as it dissects Pasolini’s final feature.

You know where to go: iTunes, Stitcher, or straight from the source. And … well, “enjoy” seems like entirely the wrong word here, but you know what I mean.

Sticking to the whole “everything’s about Bowie” theme of the last 36 hours, this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is not about David Bowie at all, but it might as well be, as director Warren P. Sonoda — whose new movie The Masked Saint opens in Canada next week — shares his love for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension.

Where is the Bowie connection? Well, the movie’s hero is a multi-tasking rock and roll scientist (complete with a Jet Car capable of zipping through interdimensional space) who saves the world from an alien invasion with his band of funky sidemen.

You can’t tell me David Bowie didn’t do that at least once.

Go get it:  iTunes, Stitcher, direct download. Enjoy.

For the last Someone Else’s Movie of 2015, I decided to keep the fun going with Ennis Esmer‘s fond, fun romp through John Landis’ Three Amigos!, a goofy 1986 riff on Seven Samurai and silent cinema written, possibly after several barrels of white wine, by Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels and Randy Newman.

I was a little leery about revisiting this one, to be honest, but it holds up surprisingly well. And the Blu-ray’s just $10.93 at Amazon.ca right now, so why not pick it up and watch along?

As always, you can find the show on iTunes and Stitcher, or via direct download. So go find it! And enjoy!

The holidays are upon us, so here’s the first Christmas episode of Someone Else’s Movie — which finds returning guest Kristian Bruun rolling through his favourite seasonal selections, and also Love, Actually. Because, well, some traumas have to be confronted head-on.

It’s live on iTunes and Stitcher, or available via direct download. I’m really happy with this one; it was just a pleasure to sit down with Kristian and talk, like people, for an hour or so. Hope you enjoy it.

This week on Someone Else’s Movie, veteran actor and Canadian icon Nick Mancuso goes straight to the pantheon to talk about Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 .

The result is more monologue than conversation, which is a new one for the show, but Nick brings a lot of insight and no small amount of personality to the subject, so I think it’s worth a listen. Of course, I am a teensy bit biased.

You can find it in all the usual places: On iTunes and Stitcher, or by good old direct download. Please do one of those!

This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is a good one: Lauren Collins, an actor, writer and producer whose charming short film Zero Recognition is a Vimeo Staff Pick this week, tackles Gillian Robespierre’s delightful non-rom-com Obvious Child.

Unfortunately, this episode lands in a world that’s a little darker than it was supposed to be, thanks to some fuckwit killing three people and injuring nine more at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last Friday. But we’d recorded and scheduled this episode more than a month ago, and I have a thing about terrorists dictating what I do with my life and my show, so I’m releasing it as originally planned.

You can grab it on iTunes, on Stitcher, or straight from SEMcast central. Please enjoy it. And Stand With Planned Parenthood, if you’re so inclined.

This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie arrives to a bold new world — a world where people have heard of the show beyond this blog and my Twitter account. Our dozen(s) of new subscribers will be expecting something great, and I’m happy to provide it.

This week, filmmaker and author Nelson George discussing Sam O’Steen’s Sparkle, a blaxploitation riff on the rise of Diana Ross and the Supremes that became a touchstone for at least one kid growing up in New York in the ’70s.

You can find it in all the usual places:  iTunes, Stitcher, direct from the SEMcast site. Just listen! It’s good for you!