This week’s NOW finds me revisiting two of the best films I saw at TIFF, with interviews.

First, there’s my festival chat with A Touch of Sin‘s Jia Zhang-ke and Zhao Tao, and then a subsequent phoner with 12 Years a Slave breakout Lupita Nyong’o, conducted the day after the movie’s New York premiere.

Also, I review the not-very-good New Zealand grindhouse wannabe Fresh Meat as part of our ImagineNative coverage.

Hey, I wanted to like it.