We return once again to the review round-up, ladies and gentlemen! As always, this comes when the week just had too many films to review, so we’re bringing the remaining ones together in one handy post. Today, we have a pair of movies hoping to grab your interest this weekend. They are, as tends to be the case, quite different from one another. We have the road trip comedy Comes As You Are, as well as the satirical comedy The Misogynists. One of the two is actually among the best titles of the year so far. The other? Well, not so much. Read on to find out more… Come As You Are There are a number of ways that Come As You Are could have gone very wrong. A road trip comedy, sprinkled in with dramatic elements, featuring a trio of disabled individuals hoping to lose their virginity? The potentially for something horribly misguided was palpable, here. Luckily, as much as this is the sort of premise that a 1980’s raunchy comedy could have gone to questionable lengths with (or worse, a post American Pie style mean spirited ripoff), this flick has much more in common with something like The Peanut Butter Falcon. It’s a well done crowd pleaser that actually ranks among the best movies of 2020 so far, believe it or not. The film is, as mentioned above, a road trip comedy, or maybe more specifically a dramedy, since it does hit some fairly emotional beats. Quickly, we’re introduced to Scotty (Grant Rosenmeyer) and Mo (Ravi Patel), two disabled friends. The former doesn’t have the use of his limbs and is confined to a motorized wheelchair, while the latter is legally blind. When a new guy named Matt (Hayden Szeto) comes to the clinic that Scotty gets treatment at and Mo works at, there’s initially tension, since Matt seems “cool” and is only in a wheelchair after an accident. Then, an opportunity arises. Scotty finds out about a brothel in Canada that caters to people with disabilities. Recruiting Matt and Mo, the three virgins set off on a road trip to get deflowered. Long under the thumb of their families, they escape across the border with a traveling nurse named Sam (Gabourey Sidibe), on a question for not just sex, but independence. Richard Wong directs a screenplay by Erik Linthorst (Wong also handles the cinematography), with music by […]