Aimee Carrero has been in a lot of stuff. Like, a lot of stuff. The Americans, Blindspot and Your Friends and Neighbors; Mack & Rita, The Menu and Spirited. She’s the voices of She-Ra and Elena of Avalor!

And most recently, she co-starred with Rainn Wilson and Lil Rel Howery in Christopher Leone’s snappy, cynical paramedic comedy-drama Code 3, which I programmed in TIFF’s Industry Selects series last year. And now that it’s available on Blu-ray, and coming to VOD on Friday, this felt like a perfect time to invite Aimee onto Someone Else’s Movie. So we did that!

Aimee did not disappoint, delivering the most enthusiastic, informed take on Mike Nichols’ adaptation of The Birdcage that I could have asked for. (She even had Mark Harris’ biography of Nichols by her side; I love it when people show up with reference materials.) However you feel about the film, the episode offers a welcome distraction from all the truly horrible shit that’s been going on this year. I needed it, and maybe you do too.

So make a mai-tai, switch on your sunlamp and give yourself a little pleasure! Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or just download the episode directly from the web and listen while you get your wig just right.

And then you can catch up on Shiny Things, because last week’s column was a doozy: I tackled Severin Films’ expansive, exhaustive Saga Erotica: The Emmanuelle Collection, an eleven-disc set that assembles the original Emmanuelle trilogy in pristine 4K restorations — the better to see what all the fuss was about — along with hours of extras and even a whole other feature. The perfect last-minute stocking stuffer? Very possibly!

What’s that? You haven’t susbcribed? Jeez! Go take care of that, and  maybe consider trying out the paid tier, where you’ll also get my weekly What’s Worth Watching dispatches. Otherwise you might end up wasting two hours on something that doesn’t deserve you.

I’m here to help, you know.