Under Adolf Hitler, Germany has tossed London into chaos during a relentless nighttime bombing campaign: the Blitzkrieg. With the men away fighting the war, women like Rita (Saoirse Ronan) work the factories which were converted to making ammunition and bombs of their own. A single mother, she and her young son George (Elliott Heffernan) live…
Author: Jeff Schaefer
Last Summer
Anne (Léa Drucker) is a lawyer whose clients are often abused teens and young adults. She lives an idyllic life in Paris with her husband, Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin), and their two adopted daughters. Their calm is upended, though, when Théo (Samuel Kircher), Pierre’s 17 year old son from his previous marriage, moves in with the…
Close to You
On his way back home after five years absence, Sam (Elliot Page) is reunited with Katherine (Hillary Baack), an old flame, on the train. Neither party is who they were back in high school; Katherine now married with two children and Sam has fully transitioned from female to male. Already in an emotionally charged state,…
A Real Pain
Cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin) and David (Jesse Eisenberg) travel to Poland with money left behind after their grandmother passed away to see the town where she grew up and the concentration camp which she survived as a way of honoring her legacy. The two young men, each living vastly different lifestyles, react to the places…
Emilia Pérez
After Rita (Zoe Saldana) gets her client off on crimes he is clearly guilty of, she receives a mysterious phone call prompting her to meet a powerful cartel leader, Manitas Del Monte (Karla Sofía Gascón). Looking to retire, the career criminal charges Rita with finding a surgeon who will perform a sex change operation so…
Scarface
During prohibition in Chicago, the town was split between the north side run by the Irish Mafia, and the south side which was held by the Italians. Johnny Lovo (Osgood Perkins) is content with his domain, but his right hand, Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) has his eyes set on expansion. Defying Lovo and encroaching onto…
Anora
Ani (Mikey Madison), a young erotic dancer working at a club in Brooklyn, has her break cut short one night as a big spending client wants someone who he can speak to in his native tongue, Russian. Dragging her feet at first, Ani comes to the table with a smile on to meet Ivan (Mark…
My Old Ass
It is Elliot’s (Maisy Stella) birthday, and she is determined to celebrate with her friends on a camping trip to a small, wooded island in the Muskoka Lakes and the trio plan to brew some mushroom tea to unwind and let loose. As the night goes on, Elliot is left sitting by the dying fire…
Rumours
Leaders from the key democracies around the world convene at a lakeside estate for the annual G7 conference where they are tasked with drafting the official statement in response to the global crisis. Their work is interrupted when night comes and staff at the estate have all mysteriously disappeared. In their search for help, they…
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