The backstory of the villain of X is told in Pearl. Set during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, Pearl (Mia Goth) is a farmgirl with dreams of being a star, though she is held down by her strict German mother, Ruth (Tandi Wright). While in town, Pearl visits the local moviehouse and befriends its seductive…
Update (9/16/2022): Since I wrote this review, Vera Drew posted a tweet clarifying the whole situation: This is a review of a film that will never be seen again, at least not in the form it premiered as part of Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival. Mere hours after the premiere, it was…
Two friends on a self-isolation trip during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic find themselves pursued by a knife-wielding killer in Sick. Parker (Gideon Adlon) is a COVID-denying teenager who decides to self-isolate at her family’s cabin, accompanied by her best friend Miri (Bethlehem Million). However, it isn’t long until a knife-wielding attacker disrupts…
A lone prospector tries to protect his stash of gold from a group of Nazis in Sisu. In 1945 Finland, at the tail end of World War II, former soldier Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila) strikes it big when he uncovers a large deposit of gold. While on his way to bring the gold back to…
On a planet occupied entirely by women, a mother and daughter are sent to assassinate a dangerous criminal in After Blue (Dirty Paradise). Far into the future, humanity has left Earth for the planet After Blue, with the male population dying off early on. Roxy (Paula Luna), nicknamed Toxic by the village girls, is a lonely…
A group of mercenaries end taking refuge in a mysterious region of Senegal in Saloum. Guinea-Bissau’s coup d’état of 2003, the mercenary group Bangui’s Hyenas consisting of Chaka (Yann Gael), Rafa (Roger Sallah), and Minuit (Mentor Ba), extract cartel member Felix (Renaud Farah) and his cargo of gold and drugs, with the group boarding a plane…
Reports of demonic possession send a remote village into near-hysteria in Zalava. Masoud (Navid Pourfaraj) is a Gendarmerie sergeant, who does not believe in the reports of demonic possession from the nearby gypsy village of Zalava, to the point where he confiscates the villagers’ firearms, which indirectly leads to a tragic death. Relieved of his…
A teenage girl becomes disturbed by the sudden change in the personality of her mother in You Are Not My Mother. Char (Hazel Doupe) is a North Dublin teenager, whose depressed mother Angela (Carolyn Bracken) suddenly vanishes, worrying Char, her grandfather Rita (Ingrid Craigie), and uncle Aaron (Paul Reid). However, Angela suddenly reappears in the…
A freestyling musician’s Livestream takes an unexpected turn in DASHCAM. Annie Hardy is the host of BandCar, the internet’s number one improvised music show in a moving vehicle, where she streams her freestyle raps from her car, all while laughing off the COVID-19 pandemic. On a trip to England, Annie steals the phone and car…
A woman with an obsession with cars poses as the missing son of a fire captain in Titane. As a child, Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) got into a car accident, resulting in a titanium plate being implanted in her skull. This leads to an unnatural connection to cars, which she uses to great success as a gyrating…
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