The Last Showgirl

The Last Showgirl

A Las Vegas showgirl has to deal with the imminent closure of her show in The Last Showgirl. Shelly Gardner (Pamela Anderson) is a 57-year-old Las Vegas showgirl, who has performed in the revue Le Razzle Dazzle for the past three decades and acts as a mother figure for the younger dancers Jodie (Kiernan Shipka)…

Longlegs

Longlegs

A young female FBI agent is assigned to track a Satanic serial killer in Longlegs. Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is a young FBI agent with a strong intuition and possible psychic abilities. As a result of her unique abilities, her superior Agent Carter (Blair Underwood) assigns her to a serial killer case the FBI…

Wildflower

Wildflower – TIFF 2022

A teenager in a coma reflects on growing up with intellectually disabled parents in Wildflower. After an unknown accident, Bea (Kiernan Shipka) is rushed to the hospital, where she remains in a coma. While unconscious, Bea reflects on her time growing up under the parentage of Derek (Dash Mihok) and Sharon (Samantha Hyde), both of…

nirvanna the band the show

nirvanna the band the show

Viceland presents the television series nirvanna the band the show, based on the original webseries of the same name by Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol. Matt and Jay are two members of a band, whose ultimate goal is to get a gig at the Rivoli club in Toronto. The two come up with a number of elaborate…

The Blackcoat’s Daughter

The Blackcoat’s Daughter

Two girls alone at a boarding school encounter an evil demonic presence in The Blackcoat’s Daghter. It is late February, and the Branford all-girls boarding school is preparing to go on break. However, the parents of neither Katherine (Kiernan Shipka) or Rose (Lucy Boynton) have arrived yet to pick them up, so they are left…

When Marnie Was There

When Marnie Was There

A shy and introverted girl makes a mysterious new friend in When Marnie Was There.  Anna Sasaki is a 12-year-old asthmatic girl, who is sent by her foster parents to live with friends for the summer.  Despite not being very good a socializing, Anna meets and befriends a mysterious blonde girl named Marnie, who lives…

Doglegs

Doglegs

An underground Japanese wrestling league, where the disabled fight the able-bodied, is the subject of Doglegs.  Doglegs is a an underground wrestling league in Tokyo, where disabled wrestlers fight against the able-bodied.  A number of the wrestlers in the league are profiled, including retiring veteran “Sambo” Shintaro, cerebral palsy-diagnosed alcoholic L’Amant, and clinically depressed caregiver…

RED

RED

The selling point of this film, based on a graphic novel, is the age of the lead actors, who all play retired spies forced back into action. Everything in the film is appropriately tongue-in-cheek, however the film does turn out to be a fairly decent action film in its own right.  While you would expect…