Tag: movie review
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 Arkansas 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...
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....
Scene On Film: 'How to Survive a Plague'
By Joan Ellis
How quickly we forget. Writer/director David France has done us all a favor by assembling the chronological history of the AIDS epidemic...
Scene On Film: 'The Gatekeepers'
By Joan Ellis
If you are confused about the issues in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, you are not likely to gain clarity from The Gatekeepers. What...
