Do you love being the first to see new movies? If so, here are some of the films opening in Toronto this weekend.
The Room Next Door
In The Room Next Door, Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again. Ingrid, a successful author, discovers that her estranged friend has terminal cancer. They move to a quiet country house where they share moments about the past, present, and future. This psychological drama is on at Varsity Cinema and TIFF Lightbox.
Wolf Man
Blake (Christopher Abbott), a San Francisco husband and father, inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With their marriage fraying, Blake persuades his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Julia Garner), to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth). As the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate bid for safety, barricade themselves inside. Wolf Man is opening on screens across the city, including downtown at Cineplex Yonge-Dundas and Scotiabank Theatre.
One of Them Days
When best friends and roommates Dreux (KeKe Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) discover Alyssa's boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact in One of Them Days. Catch this comedy at Cineplex Yonge-Dundas.
The Last Showgirl
For glamorous showgirl Shelley (Pamela Anderson) the stage and the women she shares it with are her loving, bickering, sequin-clad family. When stage manager Eddie (Dave Bautista) announces the show will close permanently in two weeks, Shelley and her co-workers must make decisions for their future — which looks different when you are 50 rather than 20, and your sole job skill is dancing. Bolstered by best friend Annette (Jamie Lee Curtis), a cocktail waitress who laughs a little too loud and too often, Shelley must find her place in a world in The Last Showgirl. You can see this Vegas-set drama at TIFF Lightbox.
September 5
Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, September 5 follows an American sports broadcasting team that quickly adapts to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Geoff (John Magaro), a young and ambitious producer striving to prove himself to his boss, the legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard), together with German interpreter Marianne (Leonie Benesch) and his mentor Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), unexpectedly takes the helm of the live coverage. With the hostages' lives hanging in the balance, Geoff grapples with tough decisions while confronting his own moral compass. Showing at Varsity Cinemas.
