It’s a new year, but I’m reaching back to 2015 for this week’s Someone Else’s Movie in honor of Alan Zweig‘s new podcast Tubby being named one of last year’s best podcasts by Apple and Amazon. Album titles to the contrary, we love it when our friends become successful, and I’ve been really glad to see Tubby find its audience.

And Alan recorded one of the best episodes of SEMcast’s first year, tackling Peter Yates’ 1973 crime drama The Friends of Eddie Coyle — the one starring Robert Mitchum as an aging gangster being pressured to flip on his much more powerful associates. It’s one of the great character studies of the ’70s, which is really saying something, and it’s a pleasure to revisit it this week. I also promise I’ll have a fresh new episode next Tuesday; it’s just the way things shook out, man.

You know how this works: 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 to it surreptitiously at the Bruins game. Your friends will never notice.

And then check out the newest editions of Shiny Things, because I’ve been catching up to a bunch of December releases, specifically Black Phone 2, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, I’m Still Here, Seeds, The Smashing Machine and Timestalker. All good stuff, and there’s more on the way! Just sign up and it’ll come straight to your inbox, and you can skip this part of the post with a clean conscience. If you go for the paid tier, you’ll also get my weekly Friday roundup of recommendations! That’s worth five bucks a month, right? Of course it is.