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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

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00:51:33

Sophie Hyde on All of Us Strangers

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2026/02/24

With her semiautobiographical family study Jimpa rolling through theaters in the US and Canada, writer-director Sophie Hyde is here to plumb the depths of Andrew Haigh’s moody masterpiece All of Us Strangers. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been hoping someone would pick this one.

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00:35:39

Paris Barclay on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2026/02/17

With his new documentary Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It opening in New York on Friday, veteran director Paris Barclay is here to unpack Stanley Kramer’s 1967 hot-button love story Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – a picture he knows inside and out. Your genial host Norm Wilner is here to take it in.

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00:34:40

Joan Chen on The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2026/02/10

Actor and filmmaker Joan Chen has been racking up awards for her performance in Xiaodan He’s Montreal, My Beautiful; now that it’s opening across Canada on Friday, February 13th, she’s here to talk about how much she loves Julian Schnabel’s 2007 drama The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Your genial host Norm Wilner regrets that we only had half an hour for this one.

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00:43:06

Blake Winston Rice on Hamnet

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2026/02/03

Writer-director Blake Winston Rice – whose latest short film Disc is playing this week in the Clemont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – is so enraptured by Chloe Zhao’s swooning historical drama Hamnet that he had to bring it onto the show. Your genial host Norm Wilner can see how that could happen.

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00:52:04

Emmanuel Kabongo on Training Day

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2026/01/27

Rising actor Emmanuel Kabongo – who both produces and stars in the new thriller Sway, opening in Toronto on Friday – counts Denzel Washington’s Oscar-winning performance in Training Day as one of the formative experiences of his young life, so Antoine Fuqua’s 2001 thriller was his first choice for the podcast. Your genial host Norm Wilner can see how that could happen.

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01:02:31

Hubert Davis on Top Gun

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2026/01/20

With his first dramatic feature The Well opening across Canada on Friday, Oscar- and Emmy-nominated director Hubert Davis is here to talk about Top Gun, the 1986 blockbuster that defined commercial American moviemaking for a decade – and made Tom Cruise a movie star for a lot longer. Your genial host Norm Wilner has never felt the need for speed, but he can see the appeal.

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01:07:04

Flashback - Alan Zweig on The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2026/01/06

Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig has his own show these days, and in honor of Tubby being named one of Apple and Amazon’s Podcasts of 2025, here's his episode on Peter Yates’ masterful 1973 crime drama The Friends of Eddie Coyle, starring Robert Mitchum as a low-level Boston mobster contemplating flipping on his associates to avoid a jail sentence. Jeez, your genial host Norm Wilner sounded so much younger in 2015 …

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01:02:26

Rob Reiner RIP - Allana Harkin on When Harry Met Sally

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/12/30

In memory of the late Rob Reiner, we’re revisiting two of his best-beloved films: This week, it’s Allana Harkin’s 2017 celebration of When Harry Met Sally, the romantic comedy that gave us Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan and Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby at their most effortlessly charming – and minted Nora Ephron as a genre-defining screenwriter. Your genial host Norm Wilner had forgotten all about the massive rainstorm halfway through the episode.

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00:53:54

Rob Reiner RIP - Kristin Booth on The Princess Bride

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/12/23

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 Princess Bride. We need this, folks. Your genial host Norm Wilner is really getting tired of the Pit of Despair.

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00:53:20

Aimee Carrero on The Birdcage

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/12/16

With her latest movie Code 3 on digital and on demand this Friday, December 19th, actor Aimee Carrero is here to celebrate Mike Nichols’ (and Elaine May’s) 1996 version of The Birdcage, with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a gay couple trying to trick the conservative parents of their son’s fiancee into thinking they’re a nice, normal couple – which, of course, they are. Your genial host Norm Wilner wishes Gene Hackman had done more comedies.

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00:49:58

Carson Lund on Two-Lane Blacktop

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/12/09

With his critically beloved debut drama Eephus now on VOD and streaming on Mubi, writer-director Carson Lund stops in to share his love of Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop, the existential cross-country race drama with James Taylor, Dennis Wilson and Warren Oates that confounded and enthralled audiences in 1971. Your genial host Norm Wilner is all about the momentum, man.

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01:07:48

Eric Veillette on Emmanuelle

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/12/02

In 1974, Just Jaeckin’s Emmanuelle marked a turning point for adult cinema ... but not every territory welcomed it with open arms. With his new documentary Emmanuelle in Ontario included on Severin Films’s brand new Saga Erotica: The Emmanuelle Collection boxed set, journalist and filmmaker Eric Veillette joins your genial host Norm Wilner to discuss the film and its very Canadian controversy.

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01:00:15

Tasha Hubbard on Winter's Bone

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/11/25

Documentarian Tasha Hubbard, whose first dramatic feature Meadowlarks opens across Canada this Friday, November 28th, credits Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone – the 2010 drama that introduced the world to Jennifer Lawrence as an Ozark teenager trying to save her family from ruin by finding her vanished father – as one of the reasons she became a filmmaker. Your genial host Norm Wilner is here to find out why.

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00:53:10

Barry Hertz on Fast Five

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/11/18

Film critic and author Barry Hertz, whose new book Welcome to the Family unpacks the history of the Fast & Furious movies, is here to talk about Fast Five, the beloved 2011 chapter where director Justin Lin introduced Vin Diesel and Paul Walker to a whole new level of motorized mayhem – and supercharged the franchise. Your genial host Norm Wilner can’t really argue with the choice.

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00:51:22

Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese on Scooby Doo 2...

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/11/11

Writer-directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese, whose animated sci-fi comedy Lesbian Space Princess is in theaters now, step up for Raja Gosnell’s 2004 live-action sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed – which, your genial host Norm Wilner is surprised to discover, holds up pretty well two decades later.

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00:33:49

Guillaume Marbeck on Breathless

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/11/04

Actor Guillaume Marbeck plays Jean-Luc Godard in Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, so he has a unique perspective on Godard’s revolutionary first feature Breathless – which, it just so happens, Nouvelle Vague is all about. Your genial host Norm Wilner cannot thank Winnie Wong enough for coming up with this concept.

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00:59:10

Bryn Chainey on Whistle and I'll Come to You

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/10/28

Writer-director Bryn Chainey, whose eerie debut Rabbit Trap is ideal Halloween viewing, is here to talk about the Jonathan Miller’s 1968 BBC adaptation of M.R. James’ Whistle and I’ll Come to You, which launched a British tradition of televised ghost stories – and still holds a disquieting power. Your genial host Norm Wilner suggests you listen to this episode in a very dark room.

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00:47:13

Bryan Fuller on Invasion of the Body Snatchers '78

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/10/21

Bryan Fuller created the cult TV shows Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies and Hannibal, among others, and his delirious first feature Dust Bunny plays the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival this Thursday, October 23rd. And he’s here to explore Philip Kaufman’s brilliant reinterpretation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been waiting a long time for this one.

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00:49:07

Elliott Hasler on Pirates of the Caribbean - The...

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/10/14

With his historical drama Vindication Swim rolling into US theaters this Friday, October 17th, writer-director Elliott Hasler is here to swash some buckles for Gore Verbinski’s 2003 blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl – the movie that made him want to be a filmmaker at the age of four. Really. Your genial host Norm Wilner has done the math on this.

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00:46:46

Daniel Bernhardt on The Matrix

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/10/07

Before he battles his way through the new Deathstalker this Friday, October 10th, action hero Daniel Bernhardt drops in to discuss how the Wachowskis’ action epic The Matrix blew his mind when he first saw in in 1999 – and how he ended up acting in at least one of the sequels. Your genial host Norm Wilner can’t believe no one’s brought this movie onto the podcast before.

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