On the latest episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I’m joined by writer-director Jesse Noah Klein, whose new film Best Boy is available on VOD this very day.

Best Boy is all about tangled familial relationships, with friend of the show Aaron Abrams, Caroline Dhavernas and Marc Bendavid  as three adult siblings trying to honor their dead father the way he would have wanted, in an increasingly absurd and punishing manner. It’s great, and you should watch it as soon as possible.

It is thus perhaps not a surprise that Jesse wanted to talk about Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 breakthrough The Celebration, which is also about siblings confronting the horrors of their upbringing — and a lot of other things besides. Best Boy is a very different film, but the two works are certainly in conversation with each other, and we have a really good conversation about that. I invite you to listen, perhaps while clutching a stress ball.

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 stare off into the middle distance, thinking about your own happy, unblemished childhood. I know that’s what I did!

And then, get caught up on your Shiny Things reading! Last week I wrote up the new discs of The Mastermind and Crime 101, and covered The Invite, Touch Me and Hold the Fort in Friday’s What’s Worth Watching dispatch for paid subscribers. Not one of those? Why not level up so you don’t miss this week’s? Don’t be a misser-outer! Be the Best Boy!

Oh, and if you’re looking for some fun, free outdoor entertainment next week: The Harbourfront Free Flicks series is back for 2026, and it’s a full run of musicals starting with Dirty Dancing next Tuesday, July 14th.  Show starts at 8:30pm; please be advised that for some reason there is no seating at the Concert Stage this year, so you should bring your own lawn chair or blanket or stool or whatever.

(Why am I telling you about this year’s series? No reason. No reason at all.)