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PODCAST

Someone Else"s Movie

Norm Wilner/Frequency Podcast Network

SOMEONE ELSE’S MOVIE is just what it says on the label: Each week, an actor, director, screenwriter, critic or industry observer will discuss a film that he or she admires, but had no hand in making. Hosted as genially as possible by Norm Wilner.

tv & film film interviews

All Episodes

00:36:20

BJ McDonnell on Raiders of the Lost Ark

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/02/22

With his new Foo Fighters horror-comedy Studio 666 in theaters this Friday, February 25th, filmmaker BJ McDonnell throws his hat in the ring for George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, the movie that cemented Harrison Ford's superstar status, revived a forgotten genre of action cinema, kicked off a franchise that is, incredibly enough, rolling into its fifth decade and took an unambiguous stance on punching Nazis . Your genial host Norm Wilner is okay with that.

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00:36:34

Josephine Decker on Babe

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/02/15

This week, Josephine Decker -- director of Madeleine’s Madeleine, Shirley and the brand-new Apple TV+ drama The Sky Is Everywhere -- drops in to celebrate Babe, director Chris Noonan and producer George Miller’s 1995 live-action adaptation of Dick King-Smith’s children’s book The Sheep-Pig and one of the sweetest, most deeply human films ever made about animals. Your genial host Norm Wilner thinks James Cromwell was robbed, by the way.

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00:42:22

Jefferson Moneo on Body Double

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/02/08

Writer-director Jefferson Moneo, whose new drama Cosmic Dawn is in U.S. theaters and on VOD across North America this Friday, February 11th, is here to rescue Brian De Palma’s gloriously sleazy 1984 thriller Body Double from the memory hole, and celebrate both its hothouse Hitchcockian affect and the performance of a young Melanie Griffith. Your genial host Norm Wilner is excited to hear his arguments.

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00:39:01

Kelly Fyffe-Marshall on Concrete Cowboy

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/02/01

Award-winning filmmaker Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, whose 2020 short film Black Bodies just premiered on Crave in Canada and on iTunes everywhere else, steps up for Ricky Staub's Concrete Cowboy, the contemporary Western starring Idris Elba as a Philadelphia horseman who reluctantly brings his teenage son (Caleb McLaughlin) into his world. Your genial host Norm Wilner always has time for a movie that puts Idris Elba on horseback.

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00:45:47

David Pevsner on Sixteen Candles

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/01/25

To celebrate the publication of his book Damn Shame: A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes, actor and activist David Pevsner (Naked Boys Singing, Criminal Minds, Modern Family, Gray's Anatomy) is here to talk about his love for John Hughes' landmark 1984 comedy Sixteen Candles ... a problematic fave if ever there was one. Your genial host Norm Wilner has some notes.

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00:52:31

Patrice Goodman on The Color Purple

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/01/18

Actor Patrice Goodman of Slasher, The Umbrella Academy and the sci-fi sitcom Overlord and the Underwoods -- which drops 10 new episodes on CBC Gem this Friday, January 21st -- is here to remind you that Steven Spielberg's 1985 adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Color Purple is a really good movie. Your genial host Norm Wilner is surprised to find out just how much he agrees with this.

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00:43:46

Daniel Grant on Life

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/01/11

Writer and producer Daniel Grant -- who also co-hosts the podcasts Spoiled Rotten and Uncolonized -- is here to tackle Life, Ted Demme's 1999 comedy in which Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence play New Yorkers in the deep South who are convicted of murder in the 1930s and sentenced to life in prison. It's a comedy about lives destroyed by systemic racism. Your genial host Norm Wilner just wants you to remember that 1999 was a different time.

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00:39:07

Larry Fessenden on The Mist

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/01/04

Actor and filmmaker Larry Fessenden -- who's currently voicing the Prophet of Doom in the animated fantasy epic The Spine of Night, now on VOD -- stands up for Frank Darabont’s 2007 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist, the pervasive nihilism of which feels awfully prescient fifteen years later. Even so, your genial host Norm Wilner has some issues with that ending. Follow Larry at @glasseyepix! And happy new year!

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00:30:25

Bronagh Gallagher on Kusama Infinity

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/12/28

See out the year with actor and singer Bronagh Gallagher -- who can currently be seen starring in Shelly Love's spiky pregnancy comedy A Bump Along the Way -- as she celebrates the eventful life and remarkable art of Yayoi Kusama as captured in Heather Lenz' 2018 documentary Kusama Infinity. Your genial host Norm Wilner is happy for the distraction.

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00:45:14

PJ McCabe on Eyes Wide Shut

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/12/21

It's the holidays, so actor and filmmaker PJ McCabe, who co-wrote, co-directed and co-stars with Jim Cummings in the very funny, very strange erotic thriller The Beta Test, tackles Eyes Wide Shut, the 1999 Cruise-and-Kidman holiday psychodrama that stands as Stanley Kubrick’s final statement on human frailty. Your genial host Norm WIlner has to admit it: He's never been a fan.

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00:31:48

Mike Rianda on We Are the Best!

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/12/14

Director Mike Rianda, whose delightful first featureThe Mitchells vs. the Machines just dropped in a souped-up Blu-ray special edition from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, takes time out to salute We Are the Best!, Lukas Moodysson’s raucous tale of two Swedish kids who decide to launch a rebellious punk band in the early '80s despite a distinct lack of anything worth rebelling about. Your genial host Norm Wilner just wants to know how this inspired the Dog Cop saga.

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00:50:17

Molly Quinn on Song of the Sea

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/12/07

Actor and producer Molly Quinn -- of Castle, Welcome to Happiness and Mickey Reece's new film Agnes, which hits theatres and VOD Friday -- is here to discuss the entrancing world of Song of the Sea, and how Tomm Moore's Oscar-nominated animated fable helped her understand which sort of stories she wanted to be telling. Your genial host Norm Wilner has the Cartoon Saloon boxed set on his holiday wish list.

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00:32:42

Brooke Nevin on Elf

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/11/30

Actor and filmmaker Brooke Nevin (Infestation, Call Me Fitz, Scorpion, and the new holiday movie It Takes a Christmas VIllage, available on Super Channel On Demand Wednesday December 1st and premiering on Super Channel Heart & Home Saturday December 4th) helps us roll towards the holidays with a conversation about the candy-coated charms of Jon Favreau's Elf, the movie that helped make Will Ferrell a star, introduced Bob Newhart and Ed Asner to a whole new generation of fans, and opened the door

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00:56:29

Corey Mintz on The Big Short

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/11/23

Journalist and author (and friend of the podcast) Corey Mintz has a new book out -- The Next Supper: The End of Restaurants As We Knew Them, and What Comes After -- and he's here for a record-setting third episode to talk about The Big Short, Adam McKay's searing 2015 study of the global economic meltdown of 2008. (It's the one where Christian Bale has a glass eye, Steve Carell has rage issues, Ryan Gosling is a weenie and Brad Pitt is a prepper.) Your genial host Norm Wilner is just happy to be

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00:38:22

Kaveh Nabatian on Happy Together

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/11/16

Filmmaker Kaveh Nabatian, whose new drama Sin La Habana just dropped on Apple TV and is still playing in Toronto at the Carlton Cinema, is here to celebrate the exquisite melancholy of Wong Kar-wai's 1997 breakup drama Happy Together, in which Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung bring their disintegrating relationship to Argentina in search of a miracle, and wind up even further apart. Your genial host Norm Wilner remains dazzled by the cinematography, and amazed that Tony Leung is in Marvel movies

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00:52:50

Jim Cummings on Zodiac

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/11/09

Actor and filmmaker Jim Cummings -- who's taken apart fragile alpha males in Thunder Road, The Wolf of Snow Hollow and the brand-new thrillerThe Beta Test -- is more than happy to lose himself in the labyrinth of David Fincher's Zodiac, the director's 2007 epic dramatization about the hunt for the serial killer who terrorized San Francisco in the late '60s and early '70s. It's no mystery: Your genial host Norm Wilner is really happy with this episode.

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00:43:55

Michelle Nolden on Secrets and Lies

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/11/02

Actor and filmmaker Michelle Nolden (Saving Hope, October Faction and currently CBC's Heartland) is also the artistic director of the Lakeshorts International Short Film Festival, which is marking its 10th anniversary with a special Grand River Shorts edition at the Dominion Telegraph Centre in Paris, Ontario, on November 12th. And she's here to talk about one of her very favourite movies: Mike Leigh's 1996 Palme d'Or winner Secrets and Lies, which paired Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste as

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00:41:39

Scott Miller Berry on Born in Flames

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/10/26

Filmmaker and festival programmer Scott Miller Berry -- whose Rendezvous with Madness film festival gets underway this Thursday, October 28th -- celebrates the intersectional future shock of Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden's 1983 DIY classic starring Adele Bertei and Honey as two feminist broadcasters pulled into the resistance in a totalitarian America. Your genial host Norm Wilner is shocked that Criterion hasn't released this yet.

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00:34:39

Aaron Martin on The Out-of-Towners

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/10/19

Writer and producer Aaron Martin -- creator of the inventive horror series Slasher, now in its fourth season, and the delirious sci-fi series Another Life, which just dropped its second season on Netflix last week -- would like you to consider the similarly chaotic joys of The Out-of-Towners, the Neil Simon-scripted, Arthur Hiller-directed 1970 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis as a nice couple from Ohio whose plans to hit New York City for a night out and an important morning meeting are

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00:42:03

Fran Kranz on Time of the Wolf and 2046

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2021/10/12

Fran Kranz, whom you may know as an actor from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse, The Cabin in the Woods and You Might Be the Killer, makes his debut as a writer-director this year with the quietly shattering Mass, now playing in US theatres and opening in Canada this Friday, October 15th. He couldn't decide between Michael Haneke’s 2003 survival drama Time Of The Wolf and Wong Kar-wai’s melancholy 2004 fantasia 2046, so we let him tackle both. Your genial host Norm Wilner is not a monster, after

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