Film review: ‘THE LAST SHOWGIRL’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
In 2008, Mickey Rourke made a much-lauded comeback in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. That movie explored the traumatic life of a person on the fringes of the entertainment industry (in that case, lower tier pro-wrestling) facing the end of their career. In so doing, it examined identity, masculinity, the industry in which the character worked and seemingly reflected the challenging
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