In 2011’s The Help, Davis plays Aibileen Clark, a Black woman in the 1960s working as a maid for a prominent white family. When Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone) returns home after college to ...

The Help has enjoyed a surge of popularity on Netflix, perhaps owing to its commitment to the idea that the personal matters most. But where... The Help shot up the Netflix charts over the last week ...

Aibileen Clark, the decency-incarnate maid played by Viola Davis in The Help, takes care of a toddler whose own mother has barely any use for her. Mae Mobley is plump and ungainly; she looks charming ...

It’s not often that an actor expresses regret about taking an Oscar-nominated role, but that’s exactly what Viola Davis did in a recent interview with the New York Times. Suggested Reading The ...

André Joseph is a movie features writer at Collider. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor's Degree in Film. He freelances as an independent filmmaker, ...

The 2009 best-selling book The Help — written by Kathryn Stockett — is set in the 1960s and focuses on the relationships between three people: a young white woman, Skeeter, who aspires to be a writer, ...

The Help shot up the Netflix charts over the last week after Netflix added it on June 1, and I've been trying to wrap my head around it ever since. What, I wondered, other than the most general ...