Allison Janney Reviews, Interviews & More
At the Sundance Film Festival, it's important to consider the sequence of movies you're seeing. Odds are you'll want to save something pleasant, uplifting, or fun for the end. That way you can walk away with a positive feeling, instead of being weighed down by the heavy subject matter that's typical of Sundance dramas. Thankfully, Oscar winners Nat Faxon & Jim Rash (The...
Touchy Feely left me a little confused and frustrated. With a talented cast and some genuinely funny material, it seemed set up for success. The issue I had with it was that the story is largely about identity crisis, yet the personalities aren't very well developed - it was difficult to pinpoint and accept their motivations. The characters also aren't centrally...
Racism is still a hot button issue in America, and though the civil rights movement was a previous generation's struggle, it's hard to address those issues cinematically and still make an entertaining film. 2011's The Help comes at a time when issue pictures are out of fashion, and so it seems slightly fresher than it might have had it come out in any other decade....
Tate Taylor’s The Help offers a number of great roles for women, which is somewhat rare, and a number for older actress, which is rarer these days. Allison Janney and Sissy Spacek play the mothers of the two leads, and the two got on immediately, both while making the film (they don’t have any scenes together, though) and in our interview, where the two often...
Award winning actress Allison Janney is keeping herself busy with her new gig entitled, The Help. According to EW, she's joined the ranks of Zombieland star Emma Stone for the film based on the novel of the same name. The book was written by Kathryn Stockett and the movie will be directed by Tate Taylor, who happens to be a...
It appears that the movie business ain't what it used to be because so many talented actors are jumping to the small screen for steady work. The latest thespian to hop on the TV bandwagon is William H. Macy, who will star in the new Showtime series "Shameless," which is a ripoff of a long running British series of the same name.
