Entertainment: Whats the Buzz from The Hollywood Reporter

Here is the latest Entertainment News from The Hollywood Reporter.

‘Political Animals’: LAFF Review

Jonah Markowitz’s documentary focuses on four prominent lesbians to achieve major victories in the California legislature.

‘Solo (Assolo)’: Film Review

Veteran Italian actress Laura Morante plays a twice-divorced woman struggling to regain her self-confidence in this comedy which she also directed and co-scripted.

‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 4: TV Review

The fourth season of the Netflix favorite impressively maintains the series’ creativity and forward momentum despite its sprawling cast of characters.

‘Beyond the Gates’: LAFF Review

This low-budget horror-comedy co-starring Graham Skipper and Chase Williamson enthusiastically revisits familiar ’90s genre conventions.

‘Tracktown’: LAFF Review

Co-director/writer and lead Rachel Pappas makes for an endearing triple-threat in this underdog audience-pleaser.

‘The Last Day’ (‘Ultima Zi’): Transylvania Review

Romanian director Gabriel Achim’s low-budget feature won top honors at the Romanian Days of the recent Transylvanian Film Festival.

‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City’: Theater Review

Beth Behrs of ‘2 Broke Girls’ stars in Halley Feiffer’s caustic comedy about two mismatched people who meet in their ailing mothers’ shared hospital room.

‘Casual’ Season 2: TV Review

The Hulu show remains a don’t-miss gem, balancing humor and dysfunction impressively and effortlessly.

‘War’: Theater Review

Family tensions escalate after a matriarch suffers a stroke in the latest provocative drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, author of ‘An Octoroon’ and ‘Gloria.’

‘Older Than Ireland’: Film Review

Dozens of centenarians reflect on the Irish history they’ve seen.

‘What We Become’: Film Review

Call these Danish zombies the “trotting” dead.

’11:55′: LAFF Review

Vengeance travels by Greyhound in upstate New York.

’11:55′: Film Review

Vengeance travels by Greyhound in upstate New York.

‘Urge’: Film Review

A new designer drug causes its users to turn violent in this B-movie thriller featuring Pierce Brosnan.

‘It’s So Easy and Other Lies’: Film Review

Christopher Duddy’s documentary/concert film is based on the memoir by Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan.

‘My First Kiss and the People Involved’: LAFF Review

An impressionistic fiction feature revolves around a group home for developmentally challenged adults.

‘Play the Devil’: LAFF Review

A working-class teen is the object of a wealthy man’s obsessive attention in a drama set during Trinidad’s Carnival season.

‘Blood Orange’: Film Review

Iggy Pop makes his starring debut in this indie thriller as a dying rock star caught in a web of sex, blackmail and murder.

‘Approaching the Unknown’: Film Review

Mark Strong plays an astronaut on an ill-fated mission to Mars in Mark Elijah Rosenberg’s outer space-set drama.

‘The God Cells’: Film Review

Is the US making it too hard to research fetal stem cell treatments?

‘Gurukulam’: Film Review

Jillian Elizabeth and Neil Dalal’s immersive documentary depicts day-to-day life in an Indian ashram.

‘UnREAL’ Season 2: TV Review

Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer return for another season of scathing, deep-cutting reality TV satire on Lifetime.

‘Chasing Yesterday’: Film Review

A tarnished track star tries to win his life back in a high-stakes race.

‘Andron’: Film Review

Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover star, sort of, in this dystopian sci-fi thriller.

‘Big’: THR’s 1988 Review

‘The Hollow Point’: Film Review

Western and noir collide in Gonzalo Lopez Gallego’s violent border drama.

‘Outcast’: TV Review

‘The Walking Dead’ creator Robert Kirkman brings familiar exorcisms and flimsy small-town drama to Cinemax in his new series starring Patrick Fugit.