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Roseanne Barr and John Goodman in Roseanne

Roseanne is Back

9 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / March 29, 2018 / Alicia Goranson, Ames McNamara, Emma Kenney, Jayden Rey, John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Fishman, Roseanne, Roseanne Barr, Sara Gilbert, Wanda Sykes

Roseanne is back with the same cast members playing the same characters in the Conner family that we laughed with back in the 1990s. They’re all grown up and older, but are they any wiser? I thought the premier episode […]

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Review: Benji

2 Comments / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / March 28, 2018 / 2018, Angus Sampson, Benji, Brandon Camp, Darby Camp, Gabriel Bateman, Gralen Bryant Banks, Grey's Anatomy, Jerod Haynes, Joe Camp, Kiele Sanchez, trailers, Will Rothhaar

I watched the 2018 Benji in honor of my daughter. Tearjerking dog stories are not my normal genre, but my memory of her watching the original Benji in the late 1970s is so strong, I had to watch it.

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Watch This: Trailer for Life Itself

2 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / March 27, 2018 / Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Dan Fogelman, Laia Costa, Life Itself, Mandy Patinkin, Olivia Cooke, Olivia Wilde, Oscar Isaac, Samuel L. Jackson, This is Us, trailers

Coming from Amazon Studios is Life Itself a love story from writer and director Dan Fogelman, the man responsible for This is Us. The film will be released in September 2018.

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Amy Huberman, Neil Morrissey and Maria Doyle Kennedy in Striking Out

Review: Striking Out season 2

10 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / March 26, 2018 / Amy Huberman, Conall Keating, Emmet Byrne, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, foreign tv series, Frida Wendel, Ingrid Craigie, Kate Gilmore, Lisa James Larsson, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Moe Dunford, Nick Dunning, Paul Antony-Barber, Rory Keenan, Sam McGovern, season 2, Simon Massey, Striking Out, trailers, Women Directors

Season 2 of the Irish drama Striking Out was more exciting and tense than season 1 and had some new regular cast members that made me happy! This series, filmed with great love in Dublin, can be seen on Acorn

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Rory Keenan, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Emmet Byrne, Neil Morrissey and Amy Huberman in Striking Out

Review: Striking Out season 1

5 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / March 23, 2018 / Amy Huberman, Brahm Gallagher, Emmet Byrne, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, foreign tv series, Lisa James Larsson, Neil Morrissey, Rory Keenan, season 1, Striking Out, trailers, Women Directors

Striking Out is an Irish drama, available on Acorn TV in the US. It’s about a young solicitor played by Amy Huberman with a cast of engaging characters. Season 1 had four episodes.

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Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks and Michael Hall D'Addario in People Like Usand

Review: People Like Us

1 Comment / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / March 22, 2018 / Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Hall D'Addario, Michelle Pfeiffer, Olivia Wilde, People Like Us, Philip Baker Hall, trailers

People Like Us is a family story, and a bit of a tear-jerker. It’s stars Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks as siblings who didn’t know the other existed until their father died.

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Two Documentaries to Watch For: RBG and Won’t You Be My Neighbor

1 Comment / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / March 21, 2018 / Betsy West, documentaries, Fred Rogers, Julie Cohen, Morgan Neville, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, trailers, Women Directors, Won't You Be My Neighbor

A couple of wonderful documentaries are coming our way, so be on the lookout for a chance to watch them both. RBG is about Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States. Won’t You Be My Neighbor

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Pei-Pei Cheng and Sandra Oh in Meditation Park

Review: Meditation Park

2 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / March 20, 2018 / Alannah Ong, elders rock, Lillian Lim, Meditation Park, Mina Shum, Pei-Pei Cheng, Sandra Oh, Sharmaine Yeoh, trailers, Tzi Ma, William Budijanto, Women Directors, Zak Santiago

Meditation Park is a lovely film from director Mina Shum, who also wrote the film. It’s about an older woman who learns to stand up for herself after two crises hit at the same time.

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Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn in Hard Sun

Review: Hard Sun

1 Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / March 19, 2018 / Agyness Deyn, Aisling Bea, Derek Riddell, foreign tv series, Happy Valley, Hard Sun, Jim Sturgess, Jojo Macari, Last Tango in Halifax, Lorraine Burroughs, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Sarah Lancashire, Tamara Smart, Ukweli Roach

Hulu has been advertising the heck out of Hard Sun, a 6 part series from the BBC and Hulu. I decided to give it a try. It was a mix of good and bad.

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Vondie Curtis-Hall, Britt Robertson, Regé-Jean Page, Ben Rappaport, Wesam Keesh, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Susannah Flood in For the People

Brain Dump: Collateral, Rise, For the People

2 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / March 16, 2018 / Anna Deavere Smith, Auli'i Cravalho, Ben Rappaport, Ben Shenkman, brain dump, Britt Robertson, Carey Mulligan, Collateral, Damon J. Gillespie, For the People, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Josh Radnor, Kae Alexander, Nicola Walker, Rise, Rosie Perez, S.J. Clarkson, Susannah Flood, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Wesam Keesh, Women Directors

Welcome to the scattered thoughts swirling around on the way out of my head in what I charmingly call a brain dump. This edition will talk about Collateral, Rise, and For the People.

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