A struggling woman in post-WWI Copenhagen is taken in by a confectioner running a side business taking unwanted babies in The Girl with the Needle. In the dying days of the first World War, seamstress Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) is suddenly evicted from the apartment she shared with her MIA husband Peter (Besir Zeciri). Karoline …
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The highs and lows of a young couple’s relationship are depicted non-linearly in We Live in Time. As he is finalizing the divorce from his failed marriage, Tobias (Andrew Garfield) ends up being hit by a car driven by Almut (Florence Pugh), a former figure skater turned Bavarian fusion chef. The two begin a passionate …
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 …
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 …
A London couple moves to a rural Irish village and learns that malevolent goblins occupy the woods behind their garden in Unwelcome. After surviving an attack by thugs in their London apartment, pregnant Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) and her husband Jamie (Douglas Booth) move to a rural Irish village, where Jamie has inherited the house of …
A recently widowed woman is tormented during a vacation to the English countryside in Men. Harper Marlowe (Jessie Buckley) has gone on vacation to the English countryside to recover from the recent suicide of her husband James (Paapa Essiedu). Arriving in the village of Coston, Harper is greeted by her friendly landlord Geoffrey (Rory Kinnear), …
A young woman and her friend travel to a remote village to find out the sinister secrets of her family in Impetigore. Maya (Tara Basro) is a young woman, who is left shaken after being attacked by a machete-wielding madman while working in a tollbooth. Soon afterward, Maya discovers old photos that suggest that she …
A woman desperately tries to search for her missing daughter in Nowhere. Claire Porter (Kate Drummond) and her teenage daughter Sarah (Nell Verlaque) have just moved from Chicago to the small town of Mattawa, where Claire is the new high school vice principal. Claire quickly befriends Ruth Simmons (Rya Kihlstedt), the coach of the school’s …
A dance troupe’s rehearsal party degenerates into chaos in Climax. Based on real events that happened in France of 1996, a group of dancers have just finished a three day rehearsal and have begun a celebratory party. However, it isn’t too long until they discover that the punch bowl of sangria has been spiked with LSD. …
A family tries to take shelter from sound sensitive creatures in A Quiet Place. The world has been ravaged by creatures, who hunt by sound. Lee Abbott (John Krasinski) and his wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt) struggle to survive in silence with their children Regan (Millicent Simmonds), Marcus (Noah Jupe), and Beau (Cade Woodward). However, a combination of …
A pregnant woman seeks vengeance against those responsible for the death of her husband in Prevenge. Ruth (Alice Lowe) is a window, whose husband died in a climbing accident, after being cut loose by those he was climbing with. At the same time she found out about her husband’s death, Ruth also discovers that she …
A married couple is stalked by an individual from the husband’s past in The Gift. Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) are a young married couple, who have just moved into a new house and are ready to begin starting a family. While shopping, Simon is reunited with Gordo (Joel Edgerton), an old acquaintance …
A young couple is spied upon by their creepy landlord in Slumlord. Claire (Brianne Moncrief) and Ryan (PJ McCabe) are a young married couple, who have just moved into a new suburban house, as they prepare for the arrival of a new baby. However, the relationship between between the two isn’t going well and Ryan …
Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz directs this darkly humorous romantic thriller, loosely inspired by the true story of the “The Lonely Hearts Killers” from the 1940s. Michel (Laurent Lucas) is a con man, who finds women through personal ads and extorts them out of their money. Michel is found out by his latest mark, a …
Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) is a stand-up comedian, who finds herself suddenly dumped by her boyfriend, who admitted to cheating on her. As a rebound to the break-up, Donna has a one night stand with Max (Jake Lacy) and finds herself pregnant as a result. Donna decides to have an abortion, which happens to be …
The stakes are raised in the second film of this rebooted Planet of the Apes series. In the decade since the first film, the drug that has made apes smarter has also resulted in a global pandemic that killed half the world’s human population. Caesar (Andy Serkis) has been living a peaceful existence with the …
From Academy Award-nominated director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) comes this tribute to the life and career of film critic Robert Ebert. Framed around excerpts from Ebert’s autobiography of the same name, narrated by sound-alike voice actor Stephen Stanton, Life Itself covers Ebert’s entire career from his early days as a critic for the Chicago Sun …
TIFF is now upon us and it is now time for my first review of the festival! On the Road is an adaptation of the classic novel by Jack Kerouac. The film focuses on Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), who is an aspiring writer and the narrator of the film. The narration of the film is in Kerouac’s …
Earlier this year at the Toronto Film Festival, I remember this film was receiving some good buzz. I would have considered seeing it then, if it wasn’t for the fact that the scheduling conflicted with my own. I think comparison has already been made that Juno seems to be Knocked Up and Superbad merged into …
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 …