The thing about programming is, it’s a lot of clicking and waiting. You start the next thing on the submissions pile, and then you wait for it to grab you. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. And every now and then — maybe half a dozen times, in my experience so far — you get to make a discovery.

That was the experience I had last year with Do I Know You from Somewhere?, a beautiful independent drama that marks the feature debut of Fredricton director Arianna Martinez. Built around an incandescent performance by stage actor Caroline Bell — her first time on-screen, incredibly enough — it’s a multiverse movie without a single special effect, unless you count the cast. (I may have used that in my TIFF note.) It’s on VOD now after a modest theatrical run, and you really ought to see it.

The VOD release was also my excuse to grab Arianna for the episode of Someone Else’s Movie that drops today. And she did not disappoint, choosing Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness, the creepy Gothic nightmare that flopped fairly spectacularly in early 2017, but has enough going on inside it that it … kind of deserves a reappraisal, maybe? So let this be the first salvo in that battle.

The sanitorium awaits you. Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or download the episode directly from the web and listen to it while you stare at the eel tank in the basement, watching the rhythms of their movement. What secrets do they hold? Or are they just eels? No, that can’t be it.

Also, you can get caught up on Shiny Things, because last week I caught up to another trio of new releases — The Shrouds, Last Breath and A Working Man — and went long on Universal’s magnificent 50th anniversary edition of Jaws, because of course I did. (If you subscribe you’ll get all the good stuff delivered right to your inbox and you can skip past this graph every week! Won’t that be fun?)

Oh, and also here’s that TIFF Original we made about Jaws in 2023, when I programmed it on the digital platform. Still proud of that one.