Tag: movie review
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...
Scene On Film: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
By Joan Ellis
See what a good trailer can do: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel opened in a packed theater on a sunny afternoon after a...
Scene On Film: "The Perfect Family"
By Joan Ellis
A touching comedy about the Catholic Church is not something I’ve been expecting, but here it is. And it’s good.
As Eileen Cleary...
Scene On Film: "Darling Companion"
By Joan Ellis
Darling Companion is a good news/bad news movie. Reasons to see it: nice idea, good cast. Reasons not to: promise unfulfilled. Who...
Scene On Film: "Bully"
By Joan Ellis
Awatch the documentary Bully from the framework of their own life experiences. Have they been teachers, victims or parents of either victims...
Scene on Film: Oscars 2011
By Joan Ellis
2011 brought us the usual mix of good, bad, and indifferent movies that were linked, inexcusably, by interminable barren stretches. There were...