Look, it’s been a grim week and we all need something nice. So for this episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I am downright delighted to present one hour of Ennis Esmer and Aaron Abrams talking about the entire 007 franchise, which Ennis just discovered last Christmas and which Aaron loves inside and out.

It’s good. It’s fun. And most important, it’s in no way relevant to the current geopolitical moment, which makes it a form of self-care! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher and get the episode immediately, or download it directly from the web. Sometimes it’s good to laugh.

Also: Other podcasts! Last Friday’s NOW What was so big we had to break it into two sub-episodes: First, there’s Rad’s conversation with TikTok star Akintoye, part of our Sound of Toronto Right Now package, and then there are my chats with BLK: An Origin Story producer-directors Jennifer Holness and Sudz Sutherland and Last One Laughing Canada contestants Colin Mochrie and Andrew Phung. Listen to ’em all! And then watch their stuff!

And after that, read. There’s last week’s What to Watch page, and the March lookaheads for Netflix, Disney+, CBC Gem, Amazon and Crave are all online, as is my review of Matt Reeves’ The Batman.

I wrote news blurbs about Sort Of getting a second season and the response of Toronto’s indie screens to today’s lifting of the proof-of-vaccination requirement in movie theatres.

And there’s more stuff coming, because I am nothing if not an optimist. Hang tight.