Two students from very different Persian backgrounds begin a complicated relationship in Tehranto. Sharon Moridi (Mo Zeighami) is young woman, who has had a very westernized upbringing by Iranian-immigrant parents Fred (Ali Badshah) and Tessa (Mahsa Ghorbankarimi), complete with Sharon using a westernized form of her real name Shirin. Sharon is also being groomed by…
A young woman unable to commit to one thing has her romantic feeling divided between two men in The Worst Person in the World. Julie (Renate Reinsve) is a young woman on the cusp of turning 30, who has juggled many career aspirations, before deciding to be an aspiring photographer, with her working at a…
A lonely woman ends up having a passionate affair with the ghost haunting her apartment in Ghosting Gloria. Gloria (Stefania Tortorella) is a bookstore employee, who is in desperate need of getting laid, at least according to her co-worker Sandra (Nenan Pelenur). In addition, Gloria is finding it difficult to sleep in her apartment, due to…
A lonely and heartbroken man uses the filming of a documentary to meet women in Shoot to Marry. Steve Markle is a middle-aged man, who becomes extremely heartbroken when his longtime girlfriend Amy breaks up with him after he proposes to her during Christmas. Desperate to meet the true love of his life, Steve begins…
A woman gets stuck in a time loop on a cottage trip with her friends in The Incredible Shrinking Wknd. Alma (Iria del Río) is a 30-year-old woman, who has come up for a weekend at the cottage with her boyfriend Pablo (Adam Quintero) and her friends Claudia (Irene Ruiz), Mark (Jimmy Castro), Sira (Nadia…
An aspiring musician wakes up into a world that has never heard of The Beatles in Yesterday. Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a struggling singer from the town of Clacton-on-Sea in the UK, who is ready to give up on his musical ambitions, despite the neverending support of his childhood friend and manager Ellie Appleton…
Sparks fly when an unemployed journalist is hired as a speechwriter for the Secretary of State in Long Shot. Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) is a journalist for a left-leaning publication, who is forced to quit his job after learning that the newspaper was acquired by wealthy mogul Parker Wembly (Andy Serkis). Joining his best friend…
A man with no direction in his life decides to apply to be part of the first mission to Mars in Red Rover. Damon (Kristian Bruun) is a down on his luck geologist currently living in the basement of his ex-girlfriend Beatrice (Meghan Heffern), who is now living with her new yoga obsessed Australian boyfriend…
This film comes about a little under 11 months after my only other experience with star Jason Segel (that being Knocked Up). He wasn’t really too much of a stand-out in the movie, so it was a little risky pushing him into the lead (even though that move worked for Seth Rogen in last year’s…
First, I hope you enjoy the new look of the blog. As you can see from this post, I will now be including a picture of the movie poster when I post thoughts (I also edited my last post to include a picture from the Death Defying Acts Q&A at TIFF). Now onto the film….
