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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.

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The colored computers of Hidden Figures on the march

Review: Hidden Figures

5 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / February 27, 2017 / Dorothy Vaughan, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monáe, Jim Parsons, John Glenn, Katherine G. Johnson, Mary Jackson, Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson, Theodore Melfi

I loved Hidden Figures. Maybe a man could watch this film and not love it, but there is no way a woman could watch Hidden Figures and not love it. It was the most emotionally satisfying film I’ve seen in

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Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe in Hidden Figures

Watch This: Trailer for Hidden Figures – Updated

Leave a Comment / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / November 7, 2016 / Dorothy Vaughn, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monáe, Jim Parsons, Katherine Johnson, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Mahershala Ali, Mary Jackson, Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson, trailers

Hidden Figures is based on a true story about a team of African-American women who provided NASA with important mathematical data to launch America’s first successful space missions.

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Janelle Monáe, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer in "Hidden Figures"

I’m Excited About the Cast of Hidden Figures

2 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / May 27, 2016 / Glen Powell, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monáe, Jim Parsons, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Mahershala Ali, Margot Lee Shetterly, Octavia Spencer, Pharrell Williams, Taraji P. Henson, Theodore Melfi

Hidden Figures doesn’t release until January 2017, but I’m already excited about the cast and the people they are playing. Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monáe, and Octavia Spencer star as three mathematicians working at NASA. The film is based on

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