Tag: Joan Ellis
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 pyroÂtechnics 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, & MiÂsunderÂstanding is peppered with genuinely good actors...
Scene On Film: "Moonrise Kingdom"
By Joan Ellis
Moonrise KingÂdom 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...