allison janney | etc-etera

Review: Ma

Ma, as its title may suggest, is not about a maternal figure. She may seem that way since she's played by Octavia Spencer, who is a...

"I was loved...for a minute. Then I was hated. Then I was just a punchline," That statement sums up the tragic, totally American saga of...

Let it be said first and foremost that Emily Blunt is nothing short of superlative as Rachel Watson in the film adaptation of Paula...

Certainly no one could be more suited than Tim Burton to direct the film adaptation of Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar...

Giving birth and being a mother are two mutually exclusive things as examined in Tallulah, the feature film debut from Orange is the New...

Melissa McCarthy is not Julia Roberts. Yet here she is in Spy, having her Pretty Woman moment at the practically geriatric age of 45....

The inherent problem with teen flicks that center on ugly ducklings turning into swans is that the so-called ugly duckling or loser or...

Hugh Grant has been in semi-retirement for a decade - a happily self-imposed exile from a profession that stirs little interest in him...

Forty-two-year old Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) masturbates in the shower. "This will be the high point of my day," he voiceovers. He's...

Call her Shakespeare's true cinematic muse, a probable Gwyneth Paltrow for her generation. At the still tender age of 18, Julia Stiles is...