Tag: Transparent
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The 22 Best LGBTQ TV Shows and Movies on Amazon Prime and Freevee
If one were to rank all the major streaming services by queerness, Amazon Prime Video would be a pretty tough one to pin down.On the one hand, you have to give credit where credit is due: one of the service’s very first stabs at original programming was “Transparent,” which in turn was one of the…
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Enough Already! Let’s Agree It’s Weird When Gentiles Play Jewish Characters — Opinion
There’s no getting around it: talking about representation in movies these days is a sticky, tricky subject. But is it Ok to admit that when Michelle Williams rattles off a “dahlink” to her brood and Anthony Hopkins instructs his grandson to “be a mensch” in his Welsh brogue, things are a little weird, nu?There are…
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‘Red Sonja’: Sacha Baron Cohen Reportedly Turned Down 7M To Play Villainous Sorcerer Kulan Gath In Fantasy Film
Earlier in the week, it was announced that Millennium Media’s reboot of the 1985 fantasy action flick “Red Sonja” had started shooting. However, the big reveal in that update was that the studio had quietly switched out director Joey Soloway (“Transparent”) and lead actress Hannah John-Kamen (“Ant-Man & The Wasp”) for director M.J. Bassett (“Rogue”)…
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The Writers Behind ‘Transparent’ Will Now Take on the WWE
Blumhouse is taking on the WWE — with a little help from Emmy nominees Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, who met critical acclaim as writers and consulting producers on the comedy series “Transparent.”First announced in 2021, “The United States of America Vs. Vince McMahon” has tapped as showrunners “Transparent” team Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster. The Writers…
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Gaby Hoffmann: ‘I really love my job, but I don’t want to do it that often’
Despite being a child actor and having her own sitcom at 12, the star of Transparent and new film C’mon C’mon is happiest out of the spotlightThere were only a few occasions when the famed self-portraiture artist Cindy Sherman took photos of someone else and, at just five years old, Gaby Hoffmann became one of…
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‘Love Life’ Season 2 Review: William Jackson Harper Outshines the Trite Rom-Com Around Him
When “Love Life” premiered in May 2020, America had an orange-haired cartoon for a president, seemingly every citizen wanted a vaccine, and HBO Max was launching to direct competition from a one-month-old streamer called Quibi. All that has since changed, and Season 2 of Sam Boyd’s anthology series has, too. The creator is joined by…
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Emmy Predictions: Best Actor in a Comedy Series — ‘Ted Lasso’s’ To Lose
Last Year’s Winner: Eugene Levy, “Schitt’s Creek”Still Eligible: No.Hot Streak: Repeat winners are still trendy in the Best Comedy Actor category. Bill Hader won in back-to-back years for “Barry” (2018 – 2019), Jeffrey Tambor won twice for “Transparent” (2015 – 2016), and Jim Parsons saw repeat wins for “The Big Bang Theory” in 2013 and…
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Steven Spielberg’s Movie About His Childhood Casts ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Breakout Julia Butters
At only 12 years old, Julia Butters is taking Hollywood by storm. Her resume includes acting roles in popular shows like Transparent and American Housewife, but it was her role as Trudi Fraser in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that really won audiences over. Now, Steven Spielberg has cast Butters in his…
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The Adventures of Wolfboy review – charm and vulnerability in magical realism fable
There are lovely performances in this teen drama tackling dysphoria, that a kid wrestling with their identity will treasureBroken into arch chapter headings that are introduced with intricate, stylised illustrations like something out of a book of fairytales for Gen Z and millennial misfits, this fey, magical realism fable is an interesting mixture of winning…
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A Kid Like Jake review – a film about gender that dodges any debate
A couple use their boy’s love of Disney dress-up to get him into a private pre-school in a film that fails to do its premise justiceA Kid Like Jake is an earnestly intended, seriously acted film, painful in various intentional and unintentional ways. It is by the TV veteran Silas Howard, who was the first…