The Last Showgirl, The Monkey and Broken Rage (Movie Squad Podcast #475)

It’s all about sequins and psychic murder-dolls on this week’s Movie Squad podcast!

First up, Tristan Fidler regales Breakfast host Pamela Boland with a review of The Last Showgirl, starring Pamela Anderson as a fading burlesque dancer on the Las Vegas strip. It’s the performance that plunged Pam (Anderson, not Boland) into the awards season conversation. Does it sparkle for Tristan?

Then, Simon Miraudo reviews director Osgood Perkins’ follow-up to 2024’s Longlegs: The Monkey, based on the Stephen King short story about a wind-up toy that randomly kills anyone in its general vicinity. Simon says the vibes are definitely ‘Beetlejuice’, but which of the two Blockbuster Babes found it overly obnoxious?

For answers relating to these new cinema releases, make sure you listen in! Then, stay tuned for an extended pod-exclusive conversation about The Monkey, as well as a bonus review of the new Takeshi Kitano two-parter, Broken Rage, now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam! And find out more about Movie Squad’s curation of Throwback Thursdays at Joondalup Festival here! Plus, don’t forget VHS Tracking’s Trash Classics screening series at Luna Palace Cinemas, which includes the 21 Feb session of Showgirls!