Tag: Joan Ellis
Scene On Film: ‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks’
By Joan Ellis
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks explores the wound that keeps on bleeding. Alex Gibney has written and directed a documentary that...
Scene On Film: 'Frances Ha'
By Joan Ellis
Life as an aspiring something in New York in your 20s is often a walk on the edge of despair.
Noah Baumbach has directed...
Scene On Film: 'The Big Wedding' and 'In The House'
By Joan Ellis
The Big Wedding. If you are hungry for a good movie on this holiday weekend, may I suggest that you avoid this one...
Scene On Film: 'Mud'
By Joan Ellis
Start with an infectious sense of place. Mud unfolds in rural ArkanÂsas around a river where people live in water-rooted shacks and...
Scene On Film: 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'
By Joan Ellis
How often do you watch a movie that invites you to open your mind wide for new understanding?
Not often in our polarized...
Scene On Film: 'The Company You Keep'
By Joan Ellis
Don’t dare to miscast a movie that’s rooted in a true story.
For The Company You Keep, the filmmakers have assembled a cast...
Scene On Film: '42'
By Joan Ellis
Each of us is likely to watch 42 through the prism of our own age.
If you are young or middle age, you...
John Muir Documentary Comes to AH
By Joan Ellis
April 25 event to benefit Monmouth Conservation Foundation
John Muir – In the New World will be shown at the Atlantic Cinema as...
Scene On Film: 'Starbuck' and 'Admission'
By Joan Ellis
Starbuck
It was a split decision among us last night at Starbuck but since I am the one with the pen, I’ll give...
Scene On Film: 'Ginger and Rosa'
By Joan Ellis
Ginger and Rosa is a serious movie that is almost, though not quite, undone by its flaws. It’s worth taking a chance....