Articles Tagged “Joan Ellis”
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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 week of rain. This was an audience already steeped in…
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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 (Kathleen Turner) makes her way from resolute belief in…
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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 wouldn’t want to see a comedy about a wedding that…
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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 or bullies, or has the problem never surfaced on their…
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Report From The 2012 New York Automobile Show
By Joan Ellis Remember this name: TERRAFUGIA. With a trademarked subtitle of “Driven to Fly,” the six-year-old company sits front and center at the New York Automobile Show, 2012 in the Jacob Javits Center. Haven’t…
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Scene on Film: ‘The Hunger Games’
By Joan Ellis The Hunger Games? Should you bother? Suzanne Collins’ successful trilogy has been crafted and acted by talented professionals. I add, with appreciation, that the filmmakers have used restraint in presenting a violent…
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Scene on Film: ‘Salmon Fishing In The Yemen’
by Joan Ellis Welcome to a grand surprise. Without much advance buzz, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen snuck into town to enliven the dustbowl that follows the annual Academy Awards. This is a film that…
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Scene on Film: ‘Game Change’
By Joan Ellis Game Change is a good movie about a controversial subject. When the Republicans found themselves behind in the 2008 presidential campaign, Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson) convinced John McCain (Ed Harris) and his…
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Scene on Film: ‘In Darkness’
By Joan Ellis A long time ago I took an oral history of a woman who drove her five children in a hay wagon from her farm in the Russian Sector of Germany to the…
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Scene on Film: ‘Wanderlust’
By Joan Ellis Is Wanderlust just another lukewarm yuppie comedy? Almost, but not quite. Like it or not, it will be remembered as the movie that broke through the barrier of male nakedness. For decades, the…
