Joel and Ethan Coen's Hail, Caesar! is predicated on a wonderful conceit. A cell of left wing screenwriters are hijacking Capitol Pictures. They've kidnapped one of its stars George Clooney and have even converted him to the Communist mantra. "The studios are making them the instruments of capitalism," Clooney breathlessly tells his boss, the studio head Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin). "The studios make pictures to serve the system." Trumbo, the story of a blacklisted writer was recently released, b...
Joel and Ethan Coen's Hail, Caesar! is predicated on a wonderful conceit. A cell of left wing screenwriters are hijacking Capitol Pictures. They've kidnapped one of its stars George Clooney and have even converted him to the Communist mantra. "The studios are making them the instruments of capitalism," Clooney breathlessly tells his boss, the studio head Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin). "The studios make pictures to serve the system." Trumbo, the story of a blacklisted writer was recently released, b...
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