Can Viola Davis do no wrong? She’s at it again, making herself Queen of the Heist Genre, with the help of her female co-stars. Widows stars Davis in the new film from Steve McQueen, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gone Girl novelist Gillian Flynn, as Veronica, a woman trapped by the loss of her criminal husband …
Viola Davis
Ender’s Game: Asa Butterfield and Co-Stars Score and Save a Mediocre Movie
Cinema Siren reviews “Ender’s Game”, a film based off the novel by Orson Scott Card. In the future, children are sent to undergo military training to battle a distant alien threat.
For Your Consideration: Oscar Acting Preview
Saturday, January 21, 2012 Just in time for the Oscar announcements on January 24—and from the lanai on her January Hawaiian vacation… because movies never rest!—Cinema Siren wanted to mention some of the most notable and favorite performances of the last year. It has been a year full of subtle performances, with far less of …
The Help Review
Saturday, August 13, 2011 Tate Taylor, who told his close friend, New York Times Bestselling “The Help”‘s writer Kathryn Stockett not to give up as he read the manuscript on an airplane, started writing the screenplay for the film before the book was even finished. In this screenplay he used his best friend as inspiration …