On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I welcome the actor, writer and producer Kate Hewlett — who, in her other capacity as a playwright, wrote a clever stage show called The Swearing Jar back in 2008 for the Toronto Fringe Festival.

It’s a movie now, starring Adelaide Clemens, Douglas Booth and Patrick J. Adams and directed by the very gifted Lindsay MacKay; we premiered it at TIFF and everything! And now that The Swearing Jar is out on VOD in the US and set to open in Toronto on November 2nd and Vancouver on November 9th, it felt like a good time to invite Kate to tackle a film that’s very close to her heart: Sofia Coppola’s Oscar-winning 2003 drama Lost in Translation, the one where Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson play lost souls who make a life-changing connection when they meet in a Tokyo hotel.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts and you’ll receive the episode instantly, or download it directly from the web if you want to be all old-school about it.

And then get caught up on Shiny Things, willya? I wrote about Universal’s 40th anniversary edition of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Elevation’s new 4K releases of A24’s folk-horror trinity The Witch, Hereditary and Midsommar; if you’re not a paid subscriber, you’re missing out on all this knowledge! Actually, if you subscribe by noon ET on Wednesday October 26th, you can enter the contest to win your own A24 set! (Canadian residents only, sorry about that.)

Oh, and if you need more of me on podcasts, check out the latest episode of Podcast Like it’s 1999, where I join Phil Iscove and Kenny Neibart to explain the strange cultural circumstances that produced the CanCon tentpole The Red Violin.

I am not proud that I know all of this. But I do.