So Roseanne Barr finally destroyed herself yesterday, or at least self-immolated so badly that it’ll take years to recover from the damage. Can’t say I feel sorry for her, either, as I explained on CTV News Channel Tuesday afternoon; she’s been so awful for so long that eventually it was bound to catch up to her.

Awful people have been in the news a lot lately, haven’t they? It feels the Hollywood asshole reckoning that Steven Soderbergh predicted has finally arrived. I wrote a thing about that for the NOW site, which is up, um, now. And while I’m posting links, here’s a thing I wrote with Kevin about Toronto’s outdoor screenings, and here’s our monthly list of Netflix picks, to which I contributed some stuff.

The work continues. C’est la guerre.

In this week’s NOW, I talk to Paul Schrader about interrogating his personal doctrines — and, perhaps, his mortality — in his new film First Reformed, which I suspect might be a masterpiece. It opens tomorrow. You need to see it.

I also contributed some movie stuff to the Hot Summer Guide, because that is what I do every year around this time. It’s a living.

I say this a lot, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true: My job leads to a lot of unexpected opportunities. People ask me to do stuff, I say yes, stuff gets done! It’s fun!

Anyway, that’s how I’ve ended up at tonight’s screening of Hurley at the Inside Out Film Festival, conducting a Q&A with director Derek Dodge and possibly one other special guest. It’s a documentary about a subject that was entirely new to me, and I think we’ll have a very interesting conversation.

You should come! See you there?

There’s really only one movie to see this weekend, and it’s pretty disappointing. So let’s look at the larger menu, shall we?

Birthmarked: Absolute garbage from people who really ought to know better, though it’s a lot more entertaining once you decide Matthew Goode spends the whole thing secretly auditioning for a George Lucas biopic.

Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf: Thomas Piper’s documentary about the “plant artist” who designed New York’s High Line, among others, lands at the Hot Docs Cinema for a spell.

The Gospel According to Andre: Kate Novack’s documentary traces the life and career of Andre Leon Talley. I missed it at TIFF last year, but Kevin really likes it.

Kayak to Klemtu: Zoe Hopkins’ first feature — a family-adventure thing about a plucky tween making an epic journey along the Inside Passage to deliver a speech and stop a pipeline — has a good heart and a noble mission, but the execution just isn’t there.

On Chesil  Beach: Glenn really liked Dominic Cooke’s Ian McEwan adaptation when it played TIFF, and insists that Billy Howle is a lot better opposite Saoirse Ronan in this than he was in The Seagull. I mean, he would have to be.

Solo: A Star Wars Story: Eh, it’s fine. But it could have been a lot more than that, and we all know it. That said, someone needs to give Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge a Lando movie as quickly as possible.

Anyway, that’s everything. #ReleaseTheLordAndMillerCut, y’all.

The 28th Inside Out film festival kicks off tonight, and I contributed a review of the documentary Genderbende to NOW’s coverage. Glenn, Kevin and Susan handled the bulk of the work, but don’t worry; I’ve been doing plenty of other stuff. You’ll see.

You can only see Infinity War so many times before succumbing to crippling depression, so here’s a whole bunch of other stuff to watch if you need to spend a couple of hours indoors this holiday weekend.

Book Club: Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen play women whose lives are turned upside-down when they read Fifty Shades Of Grey and oh my god these women are legends is there truly nothing else they could be doing. Rad saw it.

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat: Kevin is underwhelmed  by Sara Driver’s documentary about the pop-art legend and the scene from which he emerged. I still really want to see it, though.

The Child Remains: As he discussed on the podcast this week, Michael Melski’s East Coast chiller owes a modest debt to old-school horrors like The Changeling — and manages to deliver on it.

Deadpool 2: Ryan Reynolds and crew return for another round of ultraviolent fourth-wall breaking, which is decent enough even though it struggles with a sense of been-there-dangled-that … and a director who clearly isn’t too comfortable with comedy.

Disobedience: Susan respects Sebastian Leilo’s drama — starring Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz as women drawn to one another in London’s Orthodox Jewish community — more than she actually enjoys it.

A Man of Integrity: Mohammed Rasoulof’s first film since Manuscripts Don’t Burn is an allegorical drama about a goldfish farmer trying to open a sluice gate. It’s more complicated than it sounds.

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word: Jose can respect Wim Wenders’ biographical documentary of the current pope, even if what’s missing is all too apparent.

RBG: And speaking of biographical docs that don’t push too hard into their subjects, here’s one about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice turned unlikely pop-culture star.

Show Dogs: Will Arnett and a talking dog investigate stuff. I dunno. Didn’t see it.

Venus: Kevin is on board with Eisha Marjara’s unusual family dramedy, starring Debargo Sanyal as a trans woman who discovers she fathered a child back in high school.

…. there, now you’re all caught up. Aren’t you lucky.

In this week’s NOW, I spend a little time thinking about TIFF’s bid for respectability on the world-cinema scale, and whether the Platform prize signifies a shift away from the festival’s populist origins.

Or maybe I’m just pissed they didn’t honor Moonlight when they had the chance. Because they damn well should have.

Also, I reviewed the new adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, which premieres on HBO this Saturday night. But if you’re in town and you want to see it first, it’s screening for free at the Lightbox Friday evening, followed by my onstage Q&A with director Ramin Bahrani!

So that’ll be fun.