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)…

Queer

Queer

The novel by William S. Burroughs is adapted for the big screen with Queer. As a result of his drug addictions, writer William Lee (William Lee) has been living as an exile in 1950s Mexico City, frequenting the city’s gay bars and sharing tales of homosexual misadventures with his friend Joe Guidry (Jason Schwartzman). Lee…

Revisiting Donnie Darko – Ten Years Later
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Revisiting Donnie Darko – Ten Years Later

It’s a very special revisiting post for you today.  Ten years ago today, I finally saw Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko for the first time after months of trying.  The film was a victim somewhat of 9/11, in which it was essentially buried during its original theatrical release in October 2001.  It wasn’t until it was…