It’s 2025, and while the general state of things is pretty bleak, at least Rudy Giuliani continues to be available for petard-hoistings on the regular. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, or at least a more ethical one.

But today, we are also celebrating writer-director José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço, whose first feature Young Werther made its world premiere at TIFF last fall and now opens across Canada on Friday.

It’s a deliriously charming adaptation of the Goethe novella, starring Douglas Booth as the eponymous fancylad, who decides to help the girl of his dreams (Alison Pill) realize she should dump her fiance (Patrick J. Adams) and get with him instead. For her own happiness, you understand.

José’s become a friend, and so it was even more of a pleasure to invite him onto Someone Else’s Movie; he returned the favor by picking Wayne’s World, the movie that made Mike Myers a megastar and helped Penelope Spheeris go legit after starting off in rockumentaries. And as it happens, I’m old enough to have seen Myers play Wayne long before he brought the character to Saturday Night Live, so that opened up the conversation a little bit. (We never got around to discussing his performance as David Cronenberg’s Anne of Green Gables, so that’s a story for another time.)

Anyway, it’s a blast. So give it a listen! You can find the show in all the usual places:  Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, your podcatcher of choice … or you can download the episode directly from the web and listen to it while riding around with your buddies after a long night out. Rock on.

And then, once you’re done rocking, get back on the Shiny Things train! I took last week off, but I’ll be back at it Wednesday with a comprehensive look at Warner’s new 4K restoration of David Fincher’s Seven, which is a thing of terrible, terrible beauty. And there’s more where that came from, so make sure to subscribe!

That’s it for now. Stay warm, everybody.