Sinister Singin in the Rain

Rating: 8/10 (5 February 2016)

Hail Caesar is, granted, not the Coen Brothers strongest film but it is a great love song from the Coen Brothers to an industry that they live in. Its truly a film made by a couple of film nerds to appeal to other film nerds. Much in the way Singin in the Rain was about the movie industry in the 1930s adjusting to a major development in the way of talkies as told by the 1950s; Hail, Caesar is about the movie industry in the 1950s dealing with the pitfalls of celebrity image as told by the 2010s, a time that knows a lot about train wrecked celebs. This film deals with closeted homosexuality (ON THE WINGS OF EAGLES), communism, pregnancy out of wedlock, and being caught up in an image that the studio can't make money off of. Its surrounds a studio "fixer" who has to keep up with the humanity of these celebrities and make sure their image fits 1950s sentiments and don't conflict with the goals of the studio that basically owns them. Such as his ability to turn Scarlett Johansson's Deanna Moran getting pregnant by a married director, into a humanitarian effort in arranging for her to adopt her own child. It manages to show what goes on inside the "golden age" of Hollywood and that celebrities didn't start being train wrecks in 2005, its just we're much worse at hiding it now.
Also I don't understand why Jonah Hill and Scarlett Johansson had pictures on the poster but Alden Ehrenreich and Tilda Swinton didn't. They had way more to do with the plot and much bigger parts.