The Last Showgirl — Rent or buy Apple TV +
Pamela Anderson gives a career-defining performance as the protagonist of Gia Coppola’s melancholy fable of the harsh realities of life behind the glitz, glamour and neon lights of Las Vegas. Anderson plays Shelly, a veteran showgirl with three decades of service to Vegas’ ritzy façade under her belt. When the old-school revue show that she’s part of announces its closure, Shelly is forced to reconsider who she is and what her life may mean when the lights are turned off and the glitter ball stops spinning.
28 Years Later — Rent or buy Apple TV+
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are reunited for this gritty, gory return to the universe of postapocalyptic zombie horror they originally unleashed in 2002. In a world savaged by the effects of the rage virus, the hard survivalist inhabitants of an island off the coast of the UK have established a new community that lives by its own rules and practices.
When a young member of the group makes his way to the mainland with his ill mother in tow, he discovers the secrets and horrors that lurk there and a new breed of terrifying mutants who threaten the existence of those uninfected humans who remain. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Alfie Williams and Ralph Fiennes, it’s a satisfying return to the grimy, low-fi terrors of the original.
Highest 2 Lowest — Apple TV+
Director Spike Lee and star Denzel Washington team up for the fifth time for this modern-era, high-energy update of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 downbeat noir classic High and Low. Washington is David King, a New York music mogul forced into a moral dilemma when he becomes the target of a ransom plot. Co-starring A$ap Rocky, Jeffrey Wright and Ilfenesh Hadera, it’s an energetic reinvigoration of a much-revered classic that pays tribute to Lee’s beloved New York City.
Corsage — Mubi.com
Vicky Krieps shines in her performance as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in director Marie Kreutzer’s punky, irreverent take on the biopic genre. As fabled beauty Elisabeth turns 40, she’s faced with the inevitable changes of ageing and makes a series of visits to past lovers and old friends in an effort to recapture some of her youthful allure as she develops a plan to secure her legacy.
A River Called Titas — Mubi.com
Ritwik Ghatak’s 1973 epic drama is deservedly considered a classic of Bengali cinema. Set in pre-independence India, the film traces the interweaving stories of the Malo fishing community on the Titas River whose age-old traditions and way of life start to fade amid the changes that looming independence and the partition of Bengal bring.
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