Review: A 'Hillbilly Elegy' adaptation, hold the politics

Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy, starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close and directed by Ron Howard, is being critically panned and the stars are now reacting to the movie’s reviews.

Hillbilly Elegy.The actress, who plays Bev Vance in Ron Howard’s Netflix film, has responded to the mixed reception it has received since its release.“I think the themes of this movie are very universal,” Adams told NME, discussing the film’s politics in regards to negative reviews.She added: “Whether it be generational trauma, whether it be just examining where we come from to understand where we’re going and who we are.

Despite the political tension and uncertainty of COVID-19, we still have much to be grateful for this holiday season.   As a nation, we have encountered numerous challenges over the year. Our COVID-19 cases are on the rise, reaching more than 10 million.

One week after its southern Ohio county voted to reelect Donald Trump by a 24-point margin, the Cinema 10 in the steel town of Middletown was playing host to a Hollywood film premiere of sorts, a prerelease screening of the new Netflix movie Hillbilly Elegy. The Ron Howard film, which stars Amy Adams and Glenn Close as a pair of flawed but tenacious Appalachian matriarchs, is based on J.D.

Billy Ray I often wonder what would happen if Donald Trump got to make a movie about Hollywood, instead of the other way around. Of course, he’s been writing it for years.

For the fourth consecutive presidential election cycle, the results from Wisconsin proved to be a nail-biter. In 2016, President Donald Trump won the state by less than a percentage point and now, four years later, his Democratic challenger, President-elect Joe Biden, flipped the battleground state by a similar margin.

Documentary director Matt Tyrnauer, who in 2019 profiled Donald Trump’s late legal fixer in the documentary Where’s My Roy Cohn?, has turned to The Reagans, a four-part series debuting Nov. 15 on Showtime.

Also Read: Paging Oscar? Glenn Close, Amy Adams Act Up an Appalachian Storm in 'Hillbilly Elegy' Trailer (Video)“It isn’t interested in the systems that create poverty and addiction and ignorance; it just wants to pretend that one straight white guy’s ability to rise above his surroundings means that there’s no excuse for everyone else not to have done so as well,” wrote TheWrap’s Alonso Dulrade in his review of the film.Check out more reviews for the film below:“Director Ron Howard has made

JD Vance’s 2016 memoir is an enlightening work that led to a cottage industry of books seeking to explain the thinking of working-class whites in the wake of the 2016 election.

Arriving during an expectation-shattering electoral season, J.D. Vance's 2016 book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, hit a zeitgeist nerve.

Watch Video: Paging Oscar? Glenn Close, Amy Adams Act Up an Appalachian Storm in 'Hillbilly Elegy' TrailerHe’s sketchy on the details with girlfriend and classmate Usha (Freida Pinto), not knowing how she will react to his family drama, but the trip home provides the opportunity for multiple flashbacks to J.D.’s childhood, where Bev could be loving but also abusive, encouraging but rarely reliable. And when things get so bad at home that J.D.

It’s a sign of the times that the incredibly prolific Clint Eastwood will not release a film that qualifies for the current 2021 Oscar season. His spirit, however, is present in Ron Howard’s disappointing “Hillbilly Elegy,” which pulled the curtain back on reviews and reactions today.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“It didn’t start with her.” That’s the most penetrating thing said about Bev (Amy Adams), the frazzled maternal trainwreck who makes everyone’s life miserable in Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy.” Bev is a parasite, an addict, a narcissist, and a desperate user of others, notably her own family. In a word, she’s a mess.

Hollywood conservatives are speaking out after projections Saturday that declared Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election to become the 46th president of the United States. While a majority of left-leaning celebrities who endorsed Biden reacted with gleeful remarks on Saturday, celebrities who have publicly endorsed Trump are arguing that Biden's win is not legal.

Janet W. Lee After a weeklong wait following a historic, unprecedented campaign cycle during a global pandemic, Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States.

Hollywood figures quickly protestedPresident Donald Trump's speech throwing American election integrity into doubt on Thursday, saying it was "come-to-life toilet spew" and "stunning, unhinged, breathtaking" as the presidential race was still too close to call. In the speech on Thursday afternoon from the White House, Trump repeated false claims that there were "illegal" votes in the 2020 presidential contest and that he had won the election.

Late Wednesday night into early Thursday morning, Hollywood stars continued to encourage election officials to count every vote in the 2020 election between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden and expressed disappointment at reports of armed demonstrators in Arizona,which the Associated Press and other outlets called early Wednesday morning for Biden but is still counting votes.