This week on Someone Else’s Movie, I’m joined by Emmanuel Kabongo, an actor who’s been a near-constant presence in Toronto productions for a decade and a half, turning up in everything from Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project and Joey Klein’s The Other Half to episodes of Frankie Drake Mysteries, Hudson & Rex and Star Trek: Discovery.

Emmanuel gets a starring role in the microbudget thriller Sway, which opens this week and also marks his first outing as a producer, and that seemed like a great reason to have him on the podcast — especially since he wanted to talk about Training Day, which features Denzel Washington in that Oscar-winning performance — but also got Ethan Hawke his first Oscar nomination, and 25 years later he’s looking like the favorite for his own Best Actor win. So that’s nice for everybody.

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And then go get caught up on your Shiny Things columns! Just yesterday, I wrote about Criterion’s exquisite new special edition of John Huston’s The Dead, and last week I tackled Warner’s 4K releases of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights and One Battle After Another. All good stuff, and there’s more on the way; all you need to do to read it is be a subscriber! So go do that, why dontcha?