Hey, look! A bonus Friday episode of Someone Else’s Movie!

I felt a little guilty about the shortness of Kogonada’s episode — though, again, it totally worked — so I’m making it up to you with actor and filmmaker Agam Darshi, whose first feature Donkeyhead opens theatrically today in Toronto, Regina and Saskatoon. It’s been streaming on international Netflix for a few weeks now, but this is the first time most Canadian audiences will have a chance to see it. And they should! It’s quite good, an empathetic story of a blocked writer struggling with being swarmed by her more successful siblings as their father’s death draws near.

Agam wanted to talk about William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Baz Luhrmann’s hot-blooded 1996 breakout — the movie that spun Shakespearean romantic tragedy into a fantasia of gangster pictures, pop-culture riffing and teen-dream fantasy. Totally holds up, by the way, and Luhrmann’s feel for casting may never have been better applied. Revisiting it after a quarter of a century was a lot of fun, and I think you’ll enjoy the experience as well.

You know this bit, right? Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher and get the episode immediately, or download it directly from the web at your convenience. But don’t sleep on it. There’s another episode coming on Tuesday, after all.

Also, while I wasn’t able to review any of them because I’m taking some time off, Turning Red, After Yang, Donkeyhead and Wildhood are all well worth watching this weekend. It’s a great week for the movies!