An eye-popping kaleidoscope of color and the specificity of creative visual flourishes make this week’s 3-D animated feature release , which is inspired by Mexican folklore, Mexican folk art and El Dia de Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), a qualified delight and a diverting time at the cinema for movie lovers of all …
Channing Tatum
Cinema Siren Reviews: The Lego Movie – A Real BLOCK-Buster
02/08/2014 Musicians Tegan and Sara, with help from The Lonely Island, wrote the tenacious ear worm, a perfectly appropriate yet alarmingly catchy theme song of The LEGO Movie. Cinema Siren walked in attempting to keep an open mind to what seemed like a blatant 2-hour LEGO commercial, and left sure to have seen the first …
“White House Down”: Channing Tatum puts the “Abs” in “Absurd”
June 29, 2013 The first 40 minutes or so of White House Down, from director Roland Emmerich (of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012) is entertaining enough. We, the audience, know going in what to expect. Testosterone-laden dialogue, limited development of the same basic list of uninventive characters, a minimum of exposition and …
21 Jump Street: A Surprisingly Funny New Take on an Old Address
Friday, March 16, 2012 We reviewers are supposed to stay objective. However, I went into 21 Jump Street, which I expected to be a derivative soulless pile of cliches, with little hope of enjoying the next 109 minutes. To my surprise it turned out to be the big hulking anatomical joke-spewing genuine bromance-building raunchcom that …