… yeah, I know. I did it again. Got swamped, didn’t post a Friday post, it happens three weeks out of four nowadays and it’s only going to keep happening until things level off, assuming they ever do.

But! Today you get to enjoy a brand new episode of Someone Else’s Movie featuring Scare Me and Werewolves Within director Josh Ruben on Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, which is a fascinating if deeply flawed attempt to launch a franchise from a nascent filmmaker who didn’t really know how to do that. (He’d try again with Lord of Illusions, with similarly messy results.)

But even if Nightbreed doesn’t ultimately work, what resulted is a weird, compelling snapshot of Barker’s obsessions and issues at the time, and Josh and I get into all of that — while also somehow pitching a Darkman remake to each other — in a really energetic conversation. You’ll enjoy it, I think, even if we never really crack what Anne Bobby was supposed to be doing.

So get on it! 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 two whole episodes of NOW What: Last Friday, I talked to Jocelyn Reynolds and leZlie Lee Kam about Reynolds’ Pride installation Return, Seek, Carry, and today I’ve got a panel with Glenn and Daniel about Disney’s problem with queer representation. They’re both good! Give ’em a listen!

And then there’s all the writing. Here’s last week’s What to Watch column, and here’s a stand-alone review of F9. Also, previews! Here are NOW’s July lookaheads for Netflix, Crave, Disney+, Amazon and CBC Gem.

Like I said, it’s been a busy time.