Movies to catch, books to read, television to bingewatch, music to dance to and podcasts to fill your ears this autumn. Movies THE LAST SHOWGIRL This tale of the unravelling of a Las Vegas showgirl facing the end of her revue’s 30-year run has had mixed reviews but everyone seems to agree that its star, Pamela Anderson, is a revelation as Shelly Gardner. Fact blends with fiction in a script that explores the theme of what we lose in order to get what we want, and what the real cost is of that Faustian pact. QUEER Being heir to a family fortune meant beat poet and author William S. Burroughs got away with a lot, most of which he wrote about in books with titles such as ‘Junkie’ and ‘Queer’. This adaptation of the latter novel casts a post-Bond Daniel Craig as a drug-addicted writer who becomes obsessed with a US...
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The Last Showgirl