On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I’m joined by the Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin, who’s been making movies about the collision of the mundane with the uncanny formore than a decade now; if you’ve seen Bait or Enys Men, you understand exactly what I’m talking about. Shooting in 16mm, playing with sound in an immediately disquieting way, his cinema has a displaced quality that asks us to pay close attention and divine its meaning.

And with his new film, Rose of Nevada, Mark has upped his game considerably, spinning a seductive and subtly unnerving story of two young men who take jobs on a fishing boat and find themselves propelled into an impossible situation. It’s been rolling across North America since last month, and this Friday it pulls into theaters in Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver. (Paid subscribers to Shiny Things read my review last Friday.)

Mark surprised me by picking John Milius’ Big Wednesday for his SEMcast, which is … not a movie I would have thought he’d choose, let alone make a case for it as one of the last masterpieces of the New American Cinema. But he did, and he does, and I think you’ll enjoy listening to us talk about the Cornish attraction to surf cinema, the tragedy of Jan-Michael Vincent and the sheer weirdness of Milius’ career trajectory.

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 paddle out into the blue, thinking about how it’s the only place you’ve ever been happy. And special thanks to Simi Khosa of Route 504 PR for rescuing the episode when my recording failed. That was an awful few minutes.

Once you’re towelled off, go get caught up on Shiny Things, because last week I tackled the new releases of It Was Just an Accident, The Drama, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert and They Will Kill You and reviewed Rose of Nevada, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass and Mockbuster in Friday’s What’s Worth Watching dispatch for paid subscribers. Missed that one? Up that sub so this Friday’s edition comes straight to your inbox!

And if you’re in Toronto, come on down to Harbourfront Centre tonight as I kick off the 2026 Summer Free Flicks series with Emile Ardolino’s Dirty Dancing. Show starts at 8:30pm, just as the sun starts to set; seating is limited this year so bring a chair or a blanket. What better way to beat this heat than to watch attractive people sweat?

… from all the dancing, I mean.