{"id":10582,"date":"2016-02-04T18:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=10582"},"modified":"2016-02-04T18:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:35:30","slug":"hail-caesar-2016-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=10582","title":{"rendered":"HAIL, CAESAR (2016) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Hail, Caesar <\/em>many of the Coen Brother\u2019s career-long obsessions are on full display. A long lost era, a kidnap ransom and the lunacy of religion (among many others) are all repeated with the obsession of the faithful. While familiar ground is tread by the Brothers, their tropes are welcome ritual. Hail, Caesar <\/em>is worth devout observance.
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\nThe boys sure do love to operate in another period. Hail, Caesar<\/em> marks their 11th<\/sup> film to take place in past. Miller\u2019s Crossing, Inside Llewyn Davis<\/em> or The Hudsucker Proxy<\/em> all display a reverence for the way things were. Hell, even The Big Lebowski <\/em>\u00a0takes place in the early 90\u2019s even though the film was released in 1998. They are filmmakers out of sync with the present. They have very little connection with 2016, albeit in a glorious way that allows the audience to travel to a fantasy world of their own creation.<\/p>\n

Caesar <\/em>\u00a0is a celebration of the old studio system that would see its demise in the late 60\u2019s. That demise is in the far, unfocused future as our story takes place in the early 50\u2019s. The System is still hummin\u2019. The film belongs to Josh Brolin as Eddie Mannix, a Hollywood \u201cfixer\u201d that runs Capitol Pictures. While he must spend time in the editing bays and screening rooms, a great portion of his time is spent wrangling his movie stars, saving them from the embarrassment of homosexual philandering, pregnancy out of wedlock or naughty French Postcard photos.
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\nWhen the star of his in-production Jesus picture is abducted, chaos ensues as the story spins off into many different facets of funny. The all-star cast all seem to relish their work with the Brothers and we are blessed with \u00a0just swell performances from Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes and Scarlett Johansson to name but a few. Channing Tatum has a wonderful dance sequence that is a perfect fit for the era. \u00a0Many of these supporting roles are glorified cameos with Brolin in the eye of the storm.<\/p>\n

The most interesting element to the film is the way the Coen\u2019s navigate through the false world of the studio films. All fa\u00e7ade and overly elocuted \u00a0speech on display in the films within the film while the \u201cactual\u201d story of Mannix is also presented in a distinct style that mirrors the time. Smart, meta filmmaking you expect from the Coen Brothers.<\/p>\n

C-stance Grade:<\/h2>\n

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In Hail, Caesar many of the Coen Brother\u2019s career-long obsessions are on full display. A long lost era, a kidnap ransom and the lunacy of religion (among many others) are all repeated with the obsession of the faithful. While familiar ground is tread by the Brothers, their tropes are welcome ritual. Hail, Caesar is worth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4103,4574,4660,8190,11045,14317,16623,17752,22881],"class_list":["post-10582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-channing-tatum","tag-coen-brothers","tag-comedy","tag-george-clooney","tag-josh-brolin","tag-movie-review","tag-ralph-fiennes","tag-scarlett-johansson","tag-tilda-swinton"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}