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Look Both Ways, make a choice

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / August 25, 2022 / Aisha Dee, April Prosser, Danny Ramirez, David Corenswet, Lili Reinhart, Look Both Ways, Wanuri Kahiu, Women Directors

Look Both Ways is a cheerful comedy/fantasy/romance about making choices in life and how they work out. The message seemed to be that one way or another, life works out.

Review: Hollywood

9 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / May 5, 2020 / Darren Criss, David Corenswet, Glee, Holland Taylor, Hollywood, Ian Brennan, Jake Picking, Janet Mock, Jeremy Pope, Jessica Yu, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello, Laura Harrier, Michelle Krusiec, Mira Sorvino, Patti LuPone, Pose, Rob Reiner, Ryan Murphy, Samara Weaving, The Good Earth, The Politician, Women Directors

Hollywood is about rewriting the story of Hollywood by going back 80 years and re-imagining everything. Set in the 1940s, the series creates a new history for Hollywood that includes people of color, out gay men, and women bosses.

Review: The Politician, season 1

1 Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 4, 2019 / #eldersrock, Ben Platt, Bette Midler, Bob Balaban, Brad Falchuk, David Corenswet, Dylan McDermott, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Helen Hunt, Ian Brennan, Janet Mock, January Jones, Jessica Lange, Joe Morton, Judith Light, Julia Schlaepfer, Laura Dreyfuss, Lucy Boynton, Martina Navratilova, Natasha Ofili, Rahne Jones, Russell Posner, Ryan J. Haddad, Ryan Murphy, season 1, The Politician, Theo Germaine, Women Directors, Zoey Deutch

The Politician, the latest production from Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy, is equal parts brilliant and scattered. It’s pretentiously adult but set in a high school. Thematically it jumps around from one idea to another and never quite lands. Ryan Murphy regulars abound. Yet overall, it’s wonderful.