Strange Darling

Strange Darling

The final reign of terror of a serial killer is told in a non-linear fashion in Strange Darling. The Lady (Willa Fitzgerald) is being pursued down a rural stretch of road by the Demon (Kyle Gallner), who shoots at her with a shotgun. The Lady eventually takes shelter at the home of an eccentric doomsday…

Babes

Babes

The relationship between lifelong friends is tested after one of them gets pregnant after a one-night stand in Babes. After helping her childhood best friend Dawn (Michele Buteau) with the birth of her second child, Eden (Ilana Glazer) meets charming stranger Claude (Stephan James) on the subway ride home. The two end up having an…

The End of Sex

The End of Sex – TIFF 2022

A married couple tries everything to reignite their sexual chemistry in The End of Sex. With their kids having gone away to camp for a week, Emma (Emily Hampshire) and Josh (Jonas Chernick) decide to “make some sex” but find that their decade-long marriage has resulted in them becoming stagnant in the bedroom. As the…

Anomalisa

Anomalisa

A lonely self-help author finds a connection with an anomaly of a woman in Anomalisa. Self help author Michael Stone (David Thewlis) has traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio to promote his latest book at a hotel customer service convention. However, Michael is an incredibly lonely man, who perceives everyone (Tom Noonan) as exactly the same. However,…

Role Models

Role Models

If I didn’t know better, I would have thought Role Models was produced by Judd Apatow. Not only does it star Paul Rudd, who has been a constant supporting character in Apatow’s films, but it also features Elizabeth Banks (in her third film within a month), Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jane Lynch, Ken Jeong, and Joe Lo…

Knocked Up

Knocked Up

There was a time, not so long ago, when I would have not felt comfortable seeing R-rated comedies like this one. However, films like Wedding Crashers and The 40-Year Old Virgin (a film I was initially freaked out about, but quietly went to see anyway) showed me that those films tend to be the more…