It’s TIFF time! And while this is the first festival in 36 years that I won’t be either covering or working for the festival, I’ve got a few things going on around it — so if you see me down around the Lightbox, say hi!

(I know, it’s weird. But say hi anyway!)

And since it’s TIFF time, the next few episodes of Someone Else’s Movie will be devoted to the festival, starting today with Little Lorraine director and co-writer Andy Hines on Jonathan Glazer’s 2000 breakout Sexy Beast — still the only film to make Ben Kingsley a terrifying screen presence, even though Ray Winstone’s meant to be a pretty hard man all on his own.

It’s a good conversation, barring a couple of fuzzy audio moments, with Andy finding some intriguing echoes in his own work and even doing a passable impression of Kingsley’s ferocious gangster.

So join us, why don’t you? Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or just download the episode directly from the web and listen to it by the pool, assuming you’ve got sweat-resistant earbuds.

And then it’s time to catch up on Shiny Things! Last week I tackled the brand-new discs of The Phoenician Scheme and Virmiglio, and the resurrections of Saving Face, Blue (RIP Terence Stamp) and Fade In. Even smaller pictures deserve love and care, you know? Have you subscribed yet? This is a call to action: Subscribe! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

(… seriously, is he dead yet? Queen Elizabeth died just before the 2022 festival, it’d be a nice little echo.)