Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl” favours style over substance. Pamela Anderson returns to the silver screen as Shelly Gardson, a seasoned showgirl, who finds out her show (and ostensibly, career) is ending after a 30-year run. Shelly’s career trajectory is not dissimilar to Anderson’s own acting career, as Coppola adapted the script with her in mind. Anderson is sensational—she is bubbly, charming, endearing, and ethereal. She will break your heart into a million pieces and stitch it back together only to…
Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl” is half-baked; it leaves the viewer wanting more. The narrative follows Romy (Nicole Kidman), a high-powered CEO who risks it all when she begins a tumultuous affair with a young intern at her company (Harris Dickinson), who indulges her deviant sexual fantasies. The film leads us to believe that Romy’s sexuality surpasses mere BDSM and kink, but rather, stems from her childhood trauma, which it refuses to explore further. Kidman and Dickinson give raw, believable, and dazzling…
The Queen of My Dreams (2023) is a masterpiece. Lawyer-turned-filmmaker, Fawzia Mirza shares a semi-autobiographical story that meditates on the themes of queerness, motherhood, and generational trauma through the lens of classic Bollywood cinema. This film is a gift to queer South Asian children of diaspora. As a queer Pakistani Muslim, it like I was watching my life on-screen, which I have never experienced before. I cried all the way home, then made a Letterboxd account just to review this movie. Coming to a Cineplex theatre near you on March 22, 2024! Highly recommended.