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Review: Shrill

3 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / March 18, 2019 / Aidy Bryant, Ali Rushfield, Carrie Brownstein, Daniel Stern, Dietland, Dumplin', Elizabeth Banks, Gillian Robespierre, John Cameron Mitchell, Julia Sweeney, Lindy West, Lolly Adefope, Luke Jones, Shrill, trailers, Women Directors

Hulu’s comedy series Shrill stars SNL regular Aidy Bryant in this look at the discrimination, heartache, and fat-shaming women face in our society. It’s a quick watch with 6 half-hour episodes.

The Vulnerable Tissue of His Brain

Leave a Comment / Movies, News, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / December 31, 2018 / Bird Box, Dear White People, Dumplin', Grey's Anatomy, Indya Moore, Lost Girl, Pose, The Hate U Give, The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Wanted, Widows, Wynonna Earp

I’m reading “The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen. (affiliate link) It’s a Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a spy – a communist sympathizer living in America after the end of the Vietnam war.

Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston in Dumplin'

Review: Dumplin’

Leave a Comment / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / December 12, 2018 / Anne Fletcher, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Danielle Macdonald, Dolly Parton, Dumplin', Harold Perrineau, Hilliary Begley, Jennifer Aniston, Julie Murphy, Kathy Najimy, Kristin Hahn, Luke Benward, Maddie Baillio, Odeya Rush, trailers, Women Directors

Female powered Dumplin’ is about body image and loving who you are. Produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston as a woman who lives for beauty pageants. She has a plus size daughter Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald) who shakes up her world.