Time for another Friday bonus episode of Someone Else’s Movie, because it’s been a rough week and you deserve something that doesn’t suck.

So here’s Sonia Boileau, whose new movie Rustic Oracle arrived on VOD earlier this week after a year on the festival circuit, to discuss Emile Ardolino’s 1987 sleeper — which was dismissed at the time, but has come to be revered by a generation (or two) who connected to its Romeo-and-Juliet romance, its sultry dance moves and, well, the Swayze of it all. Because Jennifer Grey and Jerry Orbach were good, but he really is magnificent in this.

So go get it, and spend half an hour thinking about something other than the current moment. You know where to find it: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher and get the episode immediately, or just download it directly from the web.

And when you’re done, snap yourself back to reality with the latest episode of NOW What, in which Sook-Yin Lee and Dylan Gamble tell me how they made a movie in near-total isolation when COVID hit; it’s called Death and Sickness, and it’s streaming on CBC Gem as of today.

What else is up? Well, there’s NOW’s weekly What to Watch page, of course, and I wrote some blurbs for our annual Readers’ Choice package. More than you’d think, this year!

Oh, and Hollie Uffindell interviewed me for a piece about the death of professional film criticism in The Signal, but if I’m being honest, that’s even more depressing than the pandemic. Good read, though.