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.

Did you spend all weekend being vaguely aware of news coming out of Comic-Con? Talk of Batman versus Superman, and so forth? Well, this week’s Someone Else’s Movie is happy to coast on the general pop-culture buzz with our very first Splintersode.

See, every recording session has some stuff that strays beyond the established concept of the show, and sometimes that includes some wonderful stuff about art and culture that I regret not being able to include. So think of this week’s show as a little salvage operation, rescuing valuable observations and anecdotes from Kiva Reardon and Faith Erin Hicks and preserving them for all time.

As always, you can get it on your iTunes and your Stitcher, or by direct download. And if you like it, please let me know. I’ve got more.

Well, it happened: Someone picked Back to the Future for their episode of Someone Else’s Movie.

Who took the bait? None other than Pretend We’re Kissing writer-director Matt Austin Sadowksi, who marks the release of his movie on a number of VOD platforms by celebrating one of his — and my — favorite films.

iTunes! Stitcher! Direct download! Whoa, this is heavy.

Oh, and to extend the whole alternate-reality thing a little further, Chandler Levack is doing a gender-swapped reading of the Entourage pilot tomorrow night with some very interesting people. She tells me about it over at the NOW site.