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This week, Oscar and Emmy nominee Hubert Davis -- whose dramatic debut THE WELL opens in Toronto and Montreal on Friday -- takes Tony Scott's TOP GUN for a spin. Military propaganda or iconic blockbuster? Find out wherever you listen to podcasts, or right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/hub...
A man with close-cropped hair looks at something off-camera in a black-and-white promotional photo. A blonde woman in a leather jacket hangs off the shoulders of a confident young pilot on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. (It's Kelly McGillis and Tom Cruise from the TOP GUN poster.)
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Hey, SEMcast pals! Thanks to a weird but unavoidable confluence of events, there's no new episode this week.

But don't you worry, SOMEONE ELSE'S MOVIE will be back next Tuesday, all shiny and fresh and maybe with a nice little hat on. See you then!
January 13, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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With his new podcast TUBBY landing on Apple and Amazon's best-of lists, this felt like the perfect time to bring Alan Zweig's episode on THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE out of the vault. On all podcast platforms, and right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/fla...
A man with thinning hair stares at the camera in a grainy black-and-white image. The Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition of THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, featuring three rectangular images stacked atop one another: First, a close-up of Robert Mitchum looking simultaneously confident and nervous, then a shot of several men with guns holding a family at their breakfast table, then a wide shot of a stretch of dirt with a yellow car at the rightmost side of the frame.
January 6, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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In memory of Rob Reiner -- and to get us through the last weeks of this miserable year -- we're playing some favorites over the holidays. Here's Kristin Booth's lovely episode on THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
Rob Reiner RIP - Kristin Booth on The Princess Bride | Someone Else's Movie
To honor the late Rob Reiner, we’re revisiting two of his best-beloved films: This week, from early 2022, actor Kristin Booth celebrates the wide-open heart of his magical, impossibly entertaining The...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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New episode! CODE 3's @aimeecarrero.bsky.social is here to talk about her undying love for THE BIRDCAGE -- and how Mike Nichols got South Beach in the mid-90s exactly right. On your favorite podcast platform, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/aim...
A young woman wearing paramedic's scrubs and orange gloves stands with her arms crossed in front of a fire engine. Two middle-aged men in leisure clothes sit underneath an umbrella on a beach.
December 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Buckle up, everybody! This week, EEPHUS director Carson Lund takes the wheel for a tour of Monte Hellman’s existential grindhouse picture TWO-LANE BLACKTOP. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/car...
A young man with a beard smiles for the camera. He's wearing a denim jacket over a blue collared shirt. On a road in the middle of nowhere, three young people with an ancient car stare at the camera in a publicity still from TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Everything sucks right now, but I just found out I've landed a really cool guest for @semcast.bsky.social so that's nice.
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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This week, @veilletteinto.bsky.social looks at Just Jaeckin's adult drama EMMANUELLE and its run-in with the Ontario Censor Board, which he documents for @severinfilms.bsky.social in EMMANUELLE IN ONTARIO. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/eri...
In what looks like a moody bistro, a bearded man with graying hair sits with his arms crossed on the table in front of him, above an illuminated light with text that reads "Jolene the waitress called in sick ... again. Head to the bar for your next round." A woman wearing a strapless dress and a feather boa regards herself in an ornate mirror in a still from Just Jaeckin's 1974 feature film EMMANUELLE.
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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This week, MEADOWLARKS director Tasha Hubbard talks about seeing Debra Granik's rural thriller WINTER'S BONE at the exact right time in her life -- and how its sense of authenticity informs her own work. Find it wherever you get your podcasts, or streaming here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/tas...
Filmmaker Tasha Hubbard smiles for the camera in a publicity image. She's nice! A young woman runs through a forest, her hair blown out behind her by the wind. (Image of Jennifer Lawrence in WINTER'S BONE.)
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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If you listen to @hertzbarry.bsky.social on FAST FIVE in your car, you may feel the urge to challenge someone to a race. Please don't do that. Just enjoy some thoughts about the entire FAST series from the guy who literally wrote the book on it! someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/bar...
A bearded man smiles for the camera in an author photo. He wears a light gray jacket over a blue collared shirt, his hands clasped on the table in front of him. Two young men crouch atop a convertible, looking awesome, the sky behind them stretching out to infinity. The world is theirs. Family.
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Jinkies! This week, LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS writer-directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese celebrate their unironic love of SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED -- and, especially, Linda Cardellini's Velma.

On all podcast platforms and streaming at someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/emm... !
Two young women lean against each other against a purple backdrop in a promotional photo. They look happy! Two young women -- one holding the broken pieces of a lance and wearing a t-shirt with her own face on it, the other in an orange sweater holding some sort of ancient tome -- stand together in shock and confusion in a still from SCOOBY DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED.
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Actor Guillaume Marbeck plays Jean-Luc Godard in Richard Linklater’s delightful NOUVELLE VAGUE, so how could we pass up the opportunity to have him tackle Godard’s revolutionary BREATHLESS? On all podcast platforms and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/gui...
A man in dark glasses stands in front of a collection of photographs of movie stars. (Image is from Richard Linklater's NOUVELLE VAGUE.) In a black-and-white image from Jean-Luc Godard's BREATHLESS, Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo walk down a Paris street, chatting.
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Writer-director Bryn Chainey, whose first feature RABBIT TRAP is now on digital (and ideal Halloween viewing), conjures up Jonathan Miller’s eerie BBC adaptation of M.R. James’ WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/bry...
A young man in a khaki shirt holds a microphone and speaks to something beyond the right edge of the frame. A black and white image of a man walking along a desolate beach. The sun sets behind him, so we can only see him in silhouette, and there appears to be another silhouetted figure in the distance behind him.
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Wake up! Because DUST BUNNY writer-director @bryanfuller.bsky.social is here to unpack the pulpy effects and still-potent metaphor of Philip Kaufman's 1978 adaptation of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/bry...
A bearded man smiles at the camera. Crouched in a weedy field, a man in a brown suit clutches a woman in a red dress protectively. A large barn-like building is visible behind them through the darkness.
October 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Just cutting tomorrow's @semcast.bsky.social, with a guest I'd been hoping to land since the podcast launched a decade ago. And it's as good as I could have hoped. You'll love it ... if you're still capable of experiencing love, of course.
A man in a suit stands in the street, watching a garbage truck drive away. He is holding an empty bin.
October 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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His historical drama VINDICATION SWIM rolls into US theaters this Friday, and writer-director Elliott Hasler is here to swash the buckles for Gore Verbinski’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL. On all podcast platforms, and right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/ell...
A smiling young man leans on a tripod, holding a small camera in his right hand. Johnny Depp stands on deck in a still from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL.
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Prepare for battle, as DEATHSTALKER star Daniel Bernhardt recounts having his mind blown open by THE MATRIX -- after a heads-up from his buddy Chad Stahelski. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/dan...
The actor Daniel Bernhardt -- dressed in leather and sporting long hair, a beard and an intense stare -- sits on a throne of wood and bone in a denuded forest in a promotional still from DEATHSTALKER. Dressed in black, Neo raises his hand to halt a wave of oncoming bullets in a still from THE MATRIX.
October 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This week, filmmaker Jules Koostachin -- whose new movie ANGELA'S SHADOW is now streaming on @hollywoodsuite.bsky.social -- joins us to talk about an unlikely inspiration: Seeing FLASHDANCE with her mom. On all podcast providers, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/jul...
A woman poses with a book of poetry in a bookstore. A young woman dances in silhouette, the sun bursting through the window behind her.
September 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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As her subversive classic BORN IN FLAMES joins the Criterion Collection, writer-director Lizzie Borden offers a radical take on Chantal Akerman’s JEANNE DIELMAN, specifically: What happened next? On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/liz...
A woman, wearing a heavy coat, faces the camera in three-quarter profile and smiles. The image is black and white. A woman sits at her kitchen table and sips a cup of tea, a concerned look on her face.
September 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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@normwilner.bsky.social I'm halfway through the @alexwinter.com interview and it's absolutely incredible -- thanks, both of you, for this difficult and crucial conversation
September 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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He’s on Broadway with his best pal Keanu Reeves in WAITING FOR GODOT, and his new movie ADULTHOOD is in theaters now, but somehow @alexwinter.com made the time to talk about Luis Bunuel’s LOS OLVIDADOS. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/ale...
A man with curly hair and a close-cropped beard looks intently at the camera. A black-and-white image of a teenager towering over a young boy on a 1950s city street.
September 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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With her award-winning first feature BLUE HERON screening at TIFF this week, it felt like a good time to re-post @sophyromvari.bsky.social's 2018 episode, tackling Kirsten Johnson's brilliant CAMERAPERSON. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here:
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A woman looks into the camera with her hand on her chin, a row of bookshelves behind her. A woman in an orange shirt holds her hand over the viewfinder of a video camera so someone can look through it over her shoulder. Another production member is visible at the left side of the frame.
September 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Before his gloriously wild F*CK MY SON! makes its world premiere at TIFF's Midnight Madness Wednesday, Todd Rohal celebrates underground filmmaker George Kuchar’s cri de coeur HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED. On all podcast platforms and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/tod...
A black-and-white image of a smiling man with long hair and a beard, standing against a wall with a clock visible just over his shoulder. A bespectacled man peeks out from behind a shower curtain in a pink-tinted bathroom.
September 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Before NIKA AND MADISON has its world premiere at TIFF on Sunday, writer-director Eva Thomas pays tribute to the tender soul and gigantic heart of @barryjenkins.bsky.social’s Oscar-winning MOONLIGHT. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/eva...
A black-and-white head shot of a woman smiling at the camera. A shirtless boy on a beach stares out at the ocean, his body in silhouette. Palm trees are visible up the shore behind him.
September 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Before his first feature LITTLE LORRAINE premieres at TIFF this Friday, writer-director Andy Hines celebrates Jonathan Glazer’s 2000 breakout SEXY BEAST -- the movie that made Ben Kingsley terrifying. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/and...
A black-and-white image of a bearded, bespectacled man in a collared shirt, facing slightly away from the camera. Dressed in a yellow Speedo, a man lies on a deck chair in front of a swimming pool, baking in the sun. A younger man can be seen cleaning the pool in the distance. There is a spectacular coastal view behind them.
September 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM