Newport Beach Film Festival

The Last Showgirl

By Sabina Dana Plasse | January 2025

PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025 REVIEW! In Gia Coppola’s feature, The Last Showgirl, Shelley (Pamela Anderson), an aging showgirl in the…

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PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025 REVIEW! In Gia Coppola's feature, The Last Showgirl, Shelley (Pamela Anderson), an aging showgirl in the...

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NOW IN THEATERS! The loss of identity, sense of days blending together, anger toward your partner, and strong feelings of hopelessness and depression that...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! I find joy in independent films from stories told free of big Hollywood studio interference. One such film is...

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Oh, the tangled web that we weave when complicated matters of the heart are involved. Writer, director, and star Vivian Kerr’s film Séance, inspired by...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! From documentarian Jill Campbell, Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell's Swimsuit Issue takes viewers into the...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Writer-director Ash Avildsen tells the incredible story of the first female pro wrestler, Mildred "Millie" Burke,...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Jenny Carchman's crime documentary Whatever It Takes is so great because you have no clue what's going to happen...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Writer-director Danny Turkiewicz's colorful, heist comedy, Stealing Pulp Fiction, takes film fandom to a whole...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Tom Waller and Eoin O'Brien's true-life thriller, Kiss of the Con Queen, exposes one of the most prolific catfish...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! There’s a reason that music has genres, and when it comes to soul, there’s no better category that offers an...

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