Johanna Schneller is a freelance journalist specializing in entertainment features. She has written cover stories for In Style, Premiere, Vanity Fair, GQ, TV Guide, Life, Ladies Home Journal and Marie Claire. She writes the weekly Fame Game column in The Globe and Mail, and for two seasons, hosted TVO’s Saturday Night at the Movies. She lives in Toronto with her husband, the writer and broadcaster Ian Brown, and their two children.
Hysteria: a vibrator film you can bring your mom to
Frank conversations about female sexuality are happening more and more in movies and TV shows these days. The movie Hysteria takes a comic approach
Dustin Lance Black risks getting personal
From the Mormon faith to Prop 8, Dustin Lance Black’s bold writing has brought both bunts and home runs. Now, directing for the first time, he could be in for his riskiest at-bat yet
For Tom Wilkinson, smaller is better
Actor says he’s spent his career doing the roles he wanted, the smaller the better
Kathleen Turner: A bold broad’s second chance
After Kathleen Turner’s play High bombed on Broadway, she stayed in bed for a week: ‘Nothing like that has ever happened to me before.’ Then she picked herself up and took the play on tour
The Tribeca trifecta: fame, faith, infotainment
When a film reviewer is surrounded by cinematic true believers, she learns to go with flow – and sometimes bite her tongue
Tribeca: ‘This is a hinge time, isn’t this a hinge time?’
At Tribeca, a film festival – and a film industry – in search of itself
Rossif Sutherland’s entry into the family business
Unlike his parents and siblings, this actor didn’t succumb to the allure of craft at first. He has since made up for lost time
Mad about Mad Men’s Jessica Paré
The 29-year-old Montreal native talks about how she’s keeping Don in his place, the critics on their toes and her Cinderella moment in perspective
Paul Dano is an actual human being onscreen
Paul Dano, the talented young star of Being Flynn, has good taste in scripts and a penchant for unsettled characters
Lily Collins: The fairy-tale princess reinvented
Lily Collins stars in one of two Snow White movies this year, but she’ll be duelling as well as wearing the sparkly dress. Fairy tales are big this year, and so is girl empowerment
