I’m kinda busy finishing up next week’s NOW cover story — hang in there, it’ll be worth it — so here’s a quick run through my stuff in this week’s paper.

We start with my interview with Pawel Pawlikowski, who brought his evocative new drama “The Woman in the Fifth” to TIFF last year. You’ll also find a Q&A with Jake Johnson, a co-star of “New Girl” who plays a very similar role in the appealing hipster rom-com “Safety Not Guaranteed”, which in a perfect world will make Aubrey Plaza a proper movie star, but in a perfect world would also have had an ending that didn’t get all tangled up in wish fulfillment.

I also review a few NXNE movies, and make a snooty critical assessment of TIFF’s new Stallone/Schwarzenegger series, which basically boils down to “What, no ‘Predator’?”

Hey, I’m a truth-teller. That’s how it has to be.