Two identical twin salesmen try to reunite their divorced parents in Dicks: The Musical. Craig (Josh Sharp) and Trevor (Aaron Jackson) are two bitter rival salesmen competing to be the top seller for their girl boss, Gloria (Megan Thee Stallion). However, when they discover that they have the same birthday and matching lockets, Craig and…
Errol Morris gives the final interview to David Cornwell, a.k.a. spy novelist John le Carré, in The Pidgeon Tunnel. At one time, David Cornwell worked for the spy agencies MI5 and MI5, where he was invited to dupe other people. These experiences fueled his writing career under the pseudonym John le Carré, whose famous works…
Two brothers unwittingly unleash a demonic force in When Evil Lurks. After hearing gunshots in the woods and discovering grisly human remains, Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) and Jimi (Demián Salomón) discover the rotten and possessed man Uriel in a nearby farmhouse. With the help of landowner Ruiz (Luis Ziembrowski), the brothers drive off to remove the…
The interconnected stories of multiple people in Rome during a heatwave are told in I Told You So. It is January, yet Rome is engulfed in an unseasonal heatwave. During this blistering hot day, Gianna (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) reignites her obsession with her ex-best friend Pupa (Valeria Golino), an aging porn star. Gianna is dependent…
A Japanese-Canadian woman’s relationship with her family is forever changed while at an island self-development retreat in Seagrass. Judith (Ally Maki) travels with her husband Steve (Luke Roberts) and children Stephanie (Nyha Huang Breitkreuz) and Emmy (Remy Marthaller) to a self-development retreat on a remote island in the Pacific. While attending group therapy sessions on…
Camp counsellors are offed one-by-one by a devil mask-wearing killer in Hell of a Summer. Jason (Fred Hechinger) is a 24-year-old arriving for his eighth year as a counsellor at Camp Pineway. Jason is by far the most senior of those coming for the Counsellor Weekend, including Jason’s friend Claire (Abby Quinn), new counsellors Chris…
The participants of a late-1990s Japanese reality series look back on their experience in The Contestant. In 1998, Nasubi was chosen to participate in producer Toshio Tsuchiya‘s spinoff of his hit show Denpa Shonen, called Denpa Shonen: A Life in Prizes. Nasubi was forced to strip naked before being locked in a small apartment. His…
Louis C.K.‘s sexual misconduct revelations are examined in Sorry/Not Sorry. At his peak, Louis C.K. was one of the biggest comedians in the world, though there were always rumours about the way he acted around women. Finally, a New York Times expose from 2017 revealed accusations of sexual misconduct from five women, many of whom…
Three teenage friends attract outcry after the video of an assault is posted online in Sisterhood. Amina (Léah Aubert), Djeneba (Médina Diarra), and Zineb (Salma Takaline) are three lifelong friends from varying social backgrounds. At a party, Amina ends up filming Zineb receiving unwanted sexual advances from Zakaria (Oscar Al Hafiane), the best friend of…
A young woman starts to believe her husband’s sleeping disorder might be something more sinister in Sleep. Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) awakens one night to see her husband Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun) sitting on the end of the bed. Hyun-su utters the words “Someone is inside” before going to sleep. Soon, Hyun-su begins scratching himself while sleeping…
Factory workers to dark forces to fight back against the corrupt forces in their small town in Working Class Goes to Hell. A rural Balkan town is still reeling after a factory fire five years ago that claimed the lives of nine workers. Ceca (Tamara Krcunovic) is the leader of an association of surviving workers…
A deaf and mute boy is trained for vengeance against a murderous family in Boy Kills World. The world has become a dystopian wasteland thanks to the yearly culling put on by Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen) and her family, including sister Melanie Van Der Koy (Michelle Dockery) and her husband Gideon (Sharlto Copley),…
A young woman stranded in the desert has to make it out in time to be picked up by her strict father in NAGA. Sarah (Adwa Bader) is a young Saudi woman dropped off at the market in Riyadh, who is given strict instructions by her father (Khalid Bin Shaddad) to be ready for pickup…
A teenage boy is guided by a grey heron to search for his missing stepmother in The Boy and the Heron. After previously losing his mother to a fire, Mahito Maki (Soma Santoki) travels to the countryside with his father Shoichi (Takuya Kimura) to live with Shoichi’s pregnant fiance Natsuko (Yoshino Kimura). Mahito encounters a…
A veteran theatre critic concocts a blackmail scheme involving a young starlet in The Critic. Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen) is the longtime drama critic for The Daily Chronicle, recently inherited by David Brooke (Mark Strong). David wants to restore The Chronicle to being London’s most-read family newspaper and earmarks Jimmy for the chopping block, both…
A lone woman watches over large empty spaces in Mademoiselle Kenopsia. Mademoiselle Kenopsia (Larissa Corriveau) occupies a sliver of space in a large unknown building, occasionally taking phone calls from her distant supervisor. She is mostly alone, except for random encounters such as a mysterious woman (Evelyne de la Chenelière) monologuing about cigarettes or an…
Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya in a biopic about author Flannery O’Connor in Wildcat. Flannery O’Connor (Maya Hawke) is a deeply Catholic aspiring writer from New York of the 1950s. While travelling to Kentucky to visit her mother Regina (Laura Linney), Flannery is diagnosed with Lupus, a condition that previously took the life of her…
Life in a quiet farming village is disrupted by urban developers planning to build a “glamping” site in Evil Does Not Exist. Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) is a jack-of-all-trades living with his eight-year-old daughter Hana (Ryuji Kosaka) in a small village in a heavily forested village outside of Tokyo. The serenity of the village is disrupted…
A Miami hitman battles metaphorical and literal demons in Aggro Dr1ft. In a dystopian and infrared world, the world’s greatest assassin Bo (Jordi Mollà) traverses the underworld of Miami, while being haunted by a giant demon. For his latest job, Bo is assigned to take off the head of the hulking crime lord Toto. Aggro…
A teenage vampire finds herself unwilling to kill humans for their blood in Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a 68-year-old “teenage” vampire, who finds herself feeling more empathy towards humans than seeing them as food. One night Sasha encounters suicidal teenager Paul (Félix-Antoine Bénard), who is completely willing to be…
A young opera director’s personal trauma transfers over into her production of Salome in Seven Veils. Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried) is a young theatre director tasked by the Canadian Opera Company with remounting a production of Richard Strauss’ biblical opera Salome, previously produced by her recently deceased mentor Charles. As Jeanine deals with her recent separation…
The life and career of Ernie “Mr. Dressup” Combs are revisited in Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe. Born in Maine, Ernie Combs moved to Toronto in 1962 to work with Fred Rogers on the original CBC version of MisteRogers. After Rogers returned to the United States, CBC built a new show around Ernie Combs,…
A 30-something woman balances her life with her multiple BDSM relationships in The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed. During the day, Ann (Joanna Arnow) works an increasingly directionless job at a real estate company or gets together with her Jewish family. However, at night, partakes in master/slave relationships with multiple partners,…
A contestant on The Dating Game turns out to be a woman-killing serial killer in Woman of the Hour. Cheryl Bradshaw (Anna Kendrick) is a struggling actress in 1978 Hollywood. Cheryl’s agent gets her a role as the main contestant on The Dating Game, a cheesy match-making game show hosted by Ed Burke (Tony Hale),…
A pair of commandos fight back against a gang of 40 bandits on an Indian passenger train in KILL. Amrit (Lakshya) is a Captain in the Indian army, who boards a train bound for New Dehli to halt the arranged marriage of his love Tulika (Tanya Maniktala). However, the train is also boarded by a…
An African-American author’s satirical novel becomes a sudden and unexpected hit in American Fiction. Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is an author and English professor, who is placed on a leave of absence after a confrontation with an overtly politically correct student. In addition, Monk is informed by his literary agent Arthur (John Ortiz) that…
A group of troubled teenage friends squat in an old farmhouse in The Young Arsonists. Nicole Fergison (Maddy Martin) is a teenage girl who is still reeling from the recent death of her brother Shemus (Kyle Meagher). With her friend Veronica (Jenna Warren), the victim of frequent abuse by her father, Nicole begins squatting in…
A matchmaking event brings back traumatic memories for a middle-aged woman after she learns the truth about the man she was paired up with in The Happiest Man in the World. Asja (Jelena Kordić Kuret) is a legal advisor from Sarajevo who attends a blind dating event, where she is paired with banker Zoran (Adnan…
The survivor of a terrorist attack struggles to remember the events in Paris Memories. Mia (Virginie Efira) is a radio translator caught up in a mass shooting in a Paris bistro. Mia survives the attack but cannot remember how the events played out. She begins attending a support group for survivors, where she meets Thomas…
Two scheming demons seek the help of a 13-year-old girl to escape the underworld in Wendell & Wild. Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key) and Wild (Jordon Peele) are two demon brothers relegated to grooming their father, Buffalo Belzer (Ving Rhames), ruler of the Scream Faire. The demons get their chance to escape when Kat Elliot (Lyric Ross),…
Audio diaries help to dispel the myths about jazz legend Louis Armstrong in Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues. Known for his trumpeting and deep, raspy voice, Louis Armstrong was viewed by many as the Prime Minister of the world of jazz. However, Louis Armstrong was never public about his opinions or politics, resulting in a…
The turn of the millennium is the theme in the latest chapter of the anthology series V/H/S/99. In Shredding, a group of misfits aspire to reach the same greatness as their favourite band, Bitch Cat, who were trampled to death by fans. In Suicide Bid, a young woman is dared to spend the night in…
A luxury cruise goes horribly awry in Triangle of Sadness. Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean) are two models in a highly volatile relationship who embark on a luxury cruise. Crew leader Paula (Vicki Berlin) tries to ensure the passengers are happy, while The Captain (Woody Harrelson) spends most of the trip in a…
A New Yorker sneaks into the Vietnam War to deliver beers to his friends in The Greatest Beer Run Ever. John “Chickie” Donohue (Zac Efron) is a Marine Corps veteran and merchant seaman in 1967 Inwood, New York. While Chickie’s out drinking with friends, barkeep The Colonel (Bill Murray) expresses disgust at anti-Vietnam demonstrations in…
A young albino girl hopes to be adopted by Michelle Obama in Hawa. Hawa (Sania Halifa) is a 15-year-old afro-sporting albino girl who lives with her grandmother Maminata (Oumou Sangaré), who is not expected to live long. When Hawa finds out that Michelle Obama is in Paris for four days as part of a book…
Two indigenous individuals find love as apocalyptic events rage outside a Nothern Ontario bar in Stellar. She (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) and He (Braeden Clarke) enter a bar shortly before various natural disasters happen outside in their Northern Ontario town. Accompanied by the lone Bartender (Rossif Sutherland) and various eclectic visitors, She and He develop a connection…
A young nun has a sexual awakening after her sister’s death in Thunder. Elisabeth (Lilith Grasmug) is a 17-year-old nun on the verge of taking her vows when she is called home by the news that her sister Innocente (Léa Gigon) has died. Elizabeth learns that Innocente gained a reputation as a spawn of Satan…
A woman on the run from gangsters encounters cosmic horrors in an apartment block in Venus. Lucía (Ester Expósito) is a nightclub dancer who steals a bag full of drugs from her mafia employers. Lucía heads to the Venus apartment complex, where she hides out with her estranged sister Rocío (Ángela Cremonte) and niece Alba…
A naive young man joins a grizzled veteran on a Buffalo hunt in Butcher’s Crossing. Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) is a Harvard dropout who travels to the town of Butcher’s Crossing, Kansas hoping to join in on the booming market for Buffalo pelts. After questioning local trader JD McDonald (Paul Raci), Will comes across Miller…
A teenager in a coma reflects on growing up with intellectually disabled parents in Wildflower. After an unknown accident, Bea (Kiernan Shipka) is rushed to the hospital, where she remains in a coma. While unconscious, Bea reflects on her time growing up under the parentage of Derek (Dash Mihok) and Sharon (Samantha Hyde), both of…
A pregnant novelist confronts her traumas while observing a court case involving infanticide in Saint Omer. Rama (Kayije Kagame) is a young, pregnant novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga) at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court as inspiration for her upcoming book about the ancient Medea myth. However, hearing Laurence’s case involving killing…
Werner Herzog explores the inner workings of the human mind in Theatre of Thought. How the mind works is still one of the greatest mysteries of science. Werner Herzog speaks to many scientists researching how thoughts are created and how they can be manipulated using technology. We have surpassed the point in the documentaries of…
