Tag: movie review
By Joan Ellis Rarely has a slice of American history been delivered with such panache. Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, Lincoln is driven by the determination of the...
December 7, 2012 | comments
By Joan Ellis Bond to a beauty: “I like you better without your Beretta.” Skyfall is first-rate James Bond from beginning to end. Writers Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan...
November 30, 2012 | comments
By Joan Ellis It is likely that you will leave your own life behind and simply disappear into The Other Son. This is a story brought to deeply moving life...
November 16, 2012 | comments
By Joan Ellis Doesn’t the richness of history lie in the footnotes? It’s there that we find the memories and stories that make our past come alive. These come in the...
November 9, 2012 | comments
By Joan Ellis Taken 2 opens with scenes of gentle warmth before plunging suddenly into unrelenting violence. The mayhem is entirely physical – guns, knives, grenades and fists all used...
October 26, 2012 | comments
By Joan Ellis Ben Affleck has hit a thundering home run with Argo. As director and principal actor, he has managed to avoid excess and melodrama in a situation that...
October 19, 2012 | comments
By Joan Ellis Would tolerance have come more easily if Trouble with the Curve had been released before instead of after the ordeal of watching Clint Eastwood talk to an...
October 12, 2012 | comments
By Joan Ellis At the risk of being consigned to the dustbin, I will tell you about The Master, a movie Rolling Stone – among others – has called “a...
October 8, 2012 | comments
By Joan Ellis Arbitrage brings the Wall Street predators of today’s headlines to vivid life. In an unexpectedly strong performance, Richard Gere creates Robert Miller, a commanding hedge fund manager who...
September 28, 2012 | comments
By Joan Ellis The Words slipped into town on a raft of mediocre reviews and little hype. What a surprise then to enjoy every frame of this carefully crafted movie. Expect...
September 21, 2012 | comments
