Buffaloed (2020)

Peg (Zoey Deutch) is a precocious twenty-year-old who has grown up on the lower end of the economic spectrum in the city of Buffalo, where she’d had a long life of being on the margins and never truly being able to have the life she feels she deserves. As a result, she makes use of…

If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)

Nine countries in three weeks, a single bus crowded with over a dozen inexperienced Americans, and a particularly jovial lothario of a tour guide – this is the stage set for If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, Mel Stuart’s hilarious cross-country European odyssey that sees cultures clash in the most irreverent way imaginable. Telling…

Take the Money and Run (1969)

Exploring the filmography of Woody Allen is always a fascinating endeavour, and the further we go back in his career, the more we see how he’s changed as a filmmaker. Whether or not his change in style is indicative of growth or regression depends on how one feels about these different stages of his career….

Cactus Flower (1969)

Dr Julian Winston (Walter Matthau) is a successful dentist who leads quite an exciting life – his practice is successful, and he has amassed enough wealth to live a comfortable life. This helps him satiate his playboy tendencies, with his refusal to settle down, even in his middle age, being a distinct quality of him,…

Before You Know It (2019)

Rachel (Hannah Pearl Utt) and Jackie (Jen Tullock) are a pair of sisters living in New York. Their father is Mel Gurner (Mandy Patinkin), an acclaimed actor and playwright who has unfortunately reached a creative impasse with his latest work, and despite being regarded as quite a genius, his audience (or what remains of it),…

Tone-Deaf (2019)

Olive (Amanda Crew) has just been fired from her job, which comes almost simultaneously to the end of her most recent relationship, and in response to the crushing pressure of her modern millennial life, decides to pack up and leave, going on a solitary weekend excursion into the countryside, where she rents the house of…

Murder Mystery (2019)

Nick Spitz (Adam Sandler) is a detective for the NYPD who is about to celebrate his fifteenth anniversary with his wife, Audrey (Jennifer Aniston), a hairdresser longing for the romantic and exciting life she constantly reads about in her mystery novels. She yearns for her husband to give her the attention she feels she deserves,…

Crooklyn (1993)

Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris) is a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, or as it is affectionately referred to by those around her, “Crooklyn, New York”, in the early 1970s. A feisty girl wise beyond her years, she has to contend with four brothers who are also experiencing the sensation of growing up in such…

Greenberg (2010)

Florence (Greta Gerwig) is a young woman in Los Angeles working for the affluent Greenberg family, helping them with daily errands and being an invaluable presence in their lives. However, they’re going on an extended vacation to Vietnam, which means Florence’s responsibilities will be temporarily put on hold – that is until she meets Roger…

Give Me Liberty (2019)

Vic (Chris Galust) is a young man working as a medical transport driver, who is in charge of retrieving various patients from their homes and taking them to various places, such as the hospital or their places of work. On one particular day, he isn’t able to do his job as intended, mainly because everything…