September 2020 - Old Ain't Dead

Review: Judy

2 Comments / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / September 30, 2020 / Bella Ramsey, Darci Shaw, Finn Wittrock, Gemma-Leah Devereux, Judy, Judy Garland, Lewin Lloyd, Renée Zellweger, Richard Cordery, Rufus Sewell

Judy is Judy Garland, of course. This biopic starring Renée Zellweger doing a magnificent job as Judy is about the last few months of her life. We see her wit, her pain, her loneliness, and her genius.

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Review: The Last Word (Das Letzte Wort)

Leave a Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / September 29, 2020 / Aaron Hilmer, Anke Engelke, Aron Lehmann, Das Detzte Wort, foreign tv series, Gudrun Ritter, Johannes Zeiler, Juri Winkler, Nina Gummich, Pola Beck, The Last Word, Thorsten Merten, Women Directors

The Last Word (Das Letzte Wort) is a German language dramedy series on Netflix. It’s about love and grief, about living and dying.

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Peyton Elizabeth Lee in Secret Society of Second-Born Royals

Review: Secret Society of Second-Born Royals

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / September 28, 2020 / Alex Litvak, Andrew Green, Anna Mastro, Ashley Liao, Elodie Yung, Faly Rakotohavana, Greg Bryk, Isabella Blake-Thomas, Niles Fitch, Noah Lomax, Olivia Deeble, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Secret Society of Second Born Royals, Skylar Astin, Women Directors

Secret Society of Second-Born Royals on Disney+ is a superpowered adventure with royal children. But only the second born royal children. The first born go on to become kings and queens, while the second born learn how to save the

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Review: Enola Holmes

1 Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / September 25, 2020 / Adeel Akhtar, Enola Holmes, Fiona Shaw, Frances de la Tour, Henry Cavill, Jack Thorne, Millie Bobby Brown, Nancy Springer, Sam Claflin, Susan Wokoma

Enola Holmes tells about Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. It stars Millie Bobby Brown as Enola, an intrepid detective in her own right who beats her famous older brother to the answer every time.

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Review: Ratched, season 1

Leave a Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / September 24, 2020 / Alice Englert, Cynthia Nixon, Evan Romansky, Finn Wittrock, Jennifer Lynch, Jessica Yu, Jon Jon Briones, Judy Davis, Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ratched, Ryan Murphy, season 1, Sharon Stone, Sophie Okonedo, Women Directors

Ratched uses mind-altering saturated color and gorgeous visuals to tell the lunatic story of the murder and mayhem that created the horrifying nurse Mildred Ratched, played here by Sarah Paulson.

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Katy Byrne and Katherine Ryan in The Duchess

Review: The Duchess

5 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / September 23, 2020 / foreign tv series, Katherine Ryan, Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room, Katy Byrne, Michelle de Swarte, Rory Keenan, Steen Raskopoulos, The Duchess

The Duchess is a comedy series created by Katherine Ryan. It’s streaming on Netflix, which is where I’d seen a comedy special from Katherine Ryan and enjoyed it. That prompted me to give The Duchess a look.

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Review: Criminal UK, season 2

3 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / September 22, 2020 / Criminal UK, foreign tv series, George Kay, Jim Field Smith, Katherine Kelly, Kit Harington, Kunal Nayyar, Lee Ingleby, Mark Stanley, Rachenda Sandall, Sharon Horgan, Shubham Saraf, Sophie Okonedo

Criminal UK, the fascinating cat-and-mouse police interrogation series, returned with a 4 episode second season. This is a continuation of Criminal – 4 related series set in UK, Germany, Spain, and France from 2019. However, it looks like only the

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Review: First Day

1 Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / September 21, 2020 / Arwen Diamond, Elena Liu, Ethan Gifford, Evie Macdonald, First Day, foreign tv series, Isabel Burmester, Julie Kalceff, Mark Saturno, Nandini Rajagopal, transgender issues, Women Directors

First Day is an Australian series about a transgender girl as she enters school as her authentic self for the first time. It’s aimed at young people. It both helps clarify what it is to be transgender and provides inspiration

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Voting in Georgia in All In: The Fight for Democracy

Documentaries Galore: RBG, The Fight, and All In

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / September 20, 2020 / Eli Despres, Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, Lisa Cortes, Liz Garbus, RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stacey Abrams, The Fight, Women Directors

With Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing in the news and new documentaries that bear on the upcoming election, I spent the weekend watching docs. I saw RBG for the second time, The Fight, and All In: The Fight for Democracy. As

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Review: RBG, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary

9 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / September 19, 2020 / Betsy West, documentary films, Julie Cohen, Notorious RBG, On the Basis of Sex, RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Women Directors

RBG explores the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg is a towering figure in American life and an active justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

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