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Scene On Film: "Take This Waltz"

By Joan Ellis Take This Waltz is about love and infidelity, but that tells you next to nothing about what unfolds here. Let’s look at the...

Scene On Film: "The Amazing Spider-Man"

By Joan Ellis Welcome to the thinking man’s blockbuster.  The first scene grabs our attention without even a hint of pyro­technics and gives us instead...

Scene On Film: "Magic Mike"

By Joan Ellis If you’re up for a thoroughly unpleasant movie with some fair to middling acting, then trundle yourself off to Magic Mike. From beginning...

Scene On Film: "To Rome With Love"

By Joan Ellis To Rome, With Love is a wondrous romp for its first half-hour.  Woody Allen introduces four mostly unconnected stories that unfold against...

Scene On Film: "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding"

By Joan Ellis Here’s a piece of summer froth, a reprieve from the summer blockbusters. Peace, Love, & Mi­sunder­standing is peppered with genuinely good actors...

Scene On Film: "Moonrise Kingdom"

By Joan Ellis Moonrise King­dom is a marvelously goofy concoction that makes us smile in wonder at the mind that created it. The initial seed,...

Scene On Film: "Bernie"

By Joan Ellis There’s only one way to watch Bernie. Reach deep for whatever feelings you may have for Southern Gothic tales and be grateful...

Scene On Film: "Snow White and the Huntsman"

By Joan Ellis Whatever your age you will probably watch Snow White and the Huntsman in a contained sense of terror. Branches curl, rocks morph...

Scene On Film: "Battleship"

By Joan Ellis Editor’s note:  Joan Ellis, feeling guilty about a generational antipathy to blockbusters, has asked 20-year-old Keenan Ellis to write the second half...

Scene On Film: "Hysteria"

By Joan Ellis How often are you delighted by both the story and the look of a comedy? In grand collaboration, director Tanya Wexler and...
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