Refreshing ,Without Filling

Rating: 8/10 (6 February 2016)

So, what do you want, for $7.50 ? (FYI, the popcorn cost more than the ticket did)
The Coen Brothers have cobbled together here a fine cast, a zany plot line and a great sense of Hollywood's marbled history. We are treated to Communist screenwriters, plutocratic studio heads, fixers, pretentious directors and dumb-as-toadstools leading men.
Scarlett Johansen does a superb job as a shallow, narcissistic Esther- Williams type. I dunno who played the Gene Kelly role, but he is a superb dancer.
(Guess which role George Clooney seems so well cast for. OK, so guess again. HINT: he did not play Esther Williams)