On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I’m joined by Halifax filmmaker Tara Thorne — another veteran of the alt-weekly grind who switched careers later in life to find fulfillment as a writer and director. (I like the sound of that.)

Tara’s first feature, Compulsus, opens across Canada this Friday, and her second, Lakeview, is currently doing the festival circuit, so this felt like the perfect time to have her on the show — and she came in hot with Hustlers, Lorene Scafaria’s ceaselessly entertaining 2019 true-crime drama about the women of Scores, and how they dealt with being exploitated by rich assholes by exploiting them right back.

Okay, it was illegal and whatever, but it was a really fun ride while it lasted, and that’s the fizz that Scafaria brings to the story. Plus, The Dutch has a cameo and that’s all a movie requires to go in the canon nowadays.

Wanna join us? Subscribe at all the usual places — Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts —or download the episode directly from the web and listen to it after you and friends hunker down to get your story straight.

And then get caught up on Shiny Things, which last week featured reviews of Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs and the new Ultimate Cut of Bob Guccione’s Caligula, which labors very, very mightily to convince you there’s something serious and honorable in the wreckage of Tinto Brass’ 1979 epic. (There is not, but it’s an interesting proposition.)

I also did another What’s Worth Watching column for paid subscribers, and if you want to know what’s in it, well, there’s a really easy way to find out. See you there!