Tag: Allison Janney

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Morris’ To Leslie

A British born television Director who had a stint at the Old Vic theatre in London (1999 to 2002); with a full decade of...

Bad Education | Review

A Touch of Class: Finley Explores Famed Embezzlement Scandal Director Cory Finley revisits one of the education system’s most notorious scandals in Bad Education, an...

Troop Zero | Review

Feeling Like a Number One: Bert & Bertie Get Glossy with Good Intentions For those who prefer to view the world through rosy-tinted glasses, there’s...

Bombshell | Review

All the Network Allows: Roach Gets Righteous with Topical Melodrama They’re mad as hell and they just might not take it anymore. So could...

Ma | Review

Misery Loves Company: Spencer Reigns Supreme in Bizarre Portrait of Madness “Hell hath no fury like a (black) woman scorned,” could have been a...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #17. Cory Finley’s Bad Education

Bad Education Moving from a brilliant dark comedy (Thoroughbreds) off campus mind-games to shark infested waters of the high school experience, for Cory Finley's sophomore...

Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #43. Jay Roach’s Fair and Balanced

Fair and Balanced In a project that will carry a heavier price tag than Trumbo (read review), while we normally don't associate him with American indie,...

2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3

It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...

The Girl on the Train | Review

Those Who Love Me Can Fake the Train: Taylor’s Silly Soap Opera Thriller Actor turned director Tate Taylor proves to be even less adept crafting...

Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children | Review

Let’s Do the Time Loop Again: Burton’s Back with Another Belabored Children’s Fantasy The time has long since passed when Tim Burton was able to...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sian Heder’s Tallulah

They say write...what you know, and perhaps in this case, writing what is unknown. It's the sort of the artistic philosophy that filmmaker Sian Heder might...

Minions | Review

Villain’s Vassals: Coffin & Balda’s Slavish Prequel Void of Thought Co-directors Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda team up for Minions, a tangential prequel to the...

Days and Nights | Review

Birds of a Feather: Camargo’s Debut a Tepid Chekhovian Transplant Contemporizing classic literature can be a tricky feat, though it more often than not seems...

Tammy | Review

Tammy Girl: Falcone’s Debut a Tepid Turkey Rex Reed might have been better served to save his wayward disparagements about the cinematic talents of Melissa...

Bad Words | Review

Scatological Prowess: Bateman’s Directorial Debut an Amusing Vulgarity Fans of fare like Bad Santa and Bad Teacher should rejoice in Bad Words, foul-mouthed fodder involving...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #69. Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely

Touchy Feely Director/Writer: Lynn Shelton Producer: Steven Schardt U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Ellen Page, Rosemarie DeWitt, Allison Janney, Scoot McNairy, Ron Livingston, Josh Pais If the perfectly titled...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #70. Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s The Way Way Back

The Way Way Back Directors/Writers: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash Producer(s): Sycamore Pictures’ Tom Rice and Doubleyou’s Kevin J. Walsh U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Steve Carell, Toni...

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