On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I talk to Mary Holland — co-writer and principal scene-stealer of last year’s Happiest Season, and now the star of the very goofy arm-wrestling comedy Golden Arm — about Michael Patrick Jann’s Drop Dead Gorgeous, Michael Patrick Jann’s beloved and now-slightly-problematic 1999 mockumentary about a beauty pageant with a body count.

We had a blast, with a weird digression into Man Bites Dog and Funny Games that ends up making total sense in context. My one regret is that we didn’t have enough time to talk about Janice Cramps, the character Mary threw at Tatiana Maslany and Kristian Bruun a couple of years back on Comedy Bang Bang. Genius, truly.

Wanna listen? Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher to get the episode instantly, or download it directly from the web. And then you can move on to a couple of other podcasts that dropped today.

There’s the latest episode of NOW What, where Kelsey Adams interviews filmmaker Jennifer Holness about Subjects of Desire, the documentary about fifty years of the Miss Black America pageant that’s now screening at Hot Docs. And then there’s my third appearance on Todd Van Allen’s Comedy Above the Pub, where Todd and I spend two full hours and three whole minutes catching up on pandemic stuff and the Oscars.

… oh, and also I wrote about yesterday’s Inside Out 2021 launch announcement. More movies, huh. Swell.