Tag: movie review
Scene On Film: 'Lee Daniels' The Butler'
By Joan Ellis
And we thought we’d done it all. Half a million men died in the war that resulted in Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation; the...
Scene On Film: 'Blue Jasmine'
By Joan Ellis
Pleasure washes over us in the first scene of Blue Jasmine. Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) has spent the entire flight from Europe to...
Scene On Film: 'The Conjuring'
By Joan Ellis
Why see The Conjuring? Because respectable critics have written reams of praise saying variously that it is gripping, fast-paced, and studded with...
Scene On Film: 'RED2'
By Joan Ellis
A gang of greats has handed us a little laughter.
RED2 reunites Helen Mirren, Bruce Willis, John Malkovich and Mary Louise Parker as...
Scene On Film: 'The Way Way Back'
By Joan Ellis
Do you remember sitting in “The Way Way Back” when third row backward-facing seats were first installed in family station wagons?
Nat Faxon...
Scene On Film: 'The Attack'
By Joan Ellis
Centuries of religious, cultural, and political anger put the Arab/Israeli conflict beyond our understanding. Once in a great while someone comes forth with...
Scene On Film: 'The Heat' and 'Unfinished Song'
By Joan Ellis
In the now familiar summer movie desert, here are two that fly under the studio hype.
They are so wildly different, one from...
Scene On Film: 'Man of Steel'
By Joan Ellis
I fell in love with Superman when I was 8. Smitten, I bought all the comic books of his first few years,...
Scene On Film: 'Before Midnight'
By Joan Ellis
Eighteen years ago Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke starred in Before Sunrise, the first of a film trilogy that followed a young...
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...
