"Feeling seen, feeling beautiful, that is powerful. And I can't imagine my life without it."
Though it perhaps takes a more obvious approach, The Last Showgirl has a lot in common with The Substance in the way it looks at how older women are treated in the entertainment industry.
Shelley (Pamela Anderson) is a 57-year-old dancer who for three decades has been part of the revue show Le Razzle Dazzle. With the show set to close, Shelley faces an uncertain…
"Everybody's in danger, Eunice."
This film opens with half an hour mostly happy family life. It does such a good job at making you almost feel like part of the family at the centre of it and at making you really care about them. Then the brutal Brazilian military dictatorship rip the family apart and you really feel it.
At the centre of the film is the matriarch of the family, Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres). With her husband Rubens (Selton…
"You think they'll come to our home?"
This documentary focuses on the Palestinian people in Masafer Yatta, a region in the West Bank. Israel declared that homes in this area were illegal and began bulldozing them, despite the fact that the people have lived here for hundreds of years and cannot even leave the West Bank if they wanted to.
The film was made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four activists but focuses mostly on Basel Adra, a local man…
"Benny, please tell me we're not in a dangerous jungle with an 8-inch squirrel protecting us?"
For reasons that are unclear this film has sometimes been regarded as a Disney Animation Classic but was neither made by Disney Animation nor is there anything 'classic' about it.
In Central Park Zoo lion Samson tells his son Ryan about his heroic time living in the wild, though secretly he has always lived in captivity. Struggling to live up to his father, Ryan…
Donald Trump has come out and said that Parasite should not have won Best Picture because it's South Korean. If ever there was a film Trump would dislike it's this one. I'm pretty sure he's never watched it due to the "one inch barrier of subtitles" that requires a basic literacy level to get through.
Parasite is a film all about the class system. We open with the Kim family living in a small basement apartment as they steal Wi-Fi…
"I cherish peace with all my heart. I don't care how many men, women and children I need to kill to get it."
James Gunn knows how to make absurd comic book characters work on screen. We saw it with Guardians of the Galaxy where he managed to make Rocket Racoon a genuinely likeable character. When DC approached him to make a film for them they were thinking of Superman but Gunn opted for Suicide Squad and it's clear why-…
