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.
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Pacific Rim – THESE MONSTERS AND ROBOTS ROCK
July 12, 2013 Ask any scifi fan, they’ll likely tell you this week’s big movie, Pacific Rim, is in their top five most anticipated releases of the year. If you don’t know about it already, you might be curious enough to read on, and to find out about it now… Plot: Giant robots fight giant …
“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 …
Monsters U, Much Ado and Zombies Too! Cinema Siren reviews!
June 20, 2013 This weekend at the movies, there’s something for everyone, with a broad spectrum of subjects and targeted audiences in the offing. Zombies are bringing about the apocalypse in director Marc Forster’s World War Z, starring Brad Pitt. Monsters University is a new release by the magicians over at Pixar who seem able, …
Indie Spotlight: Trance- A Hypnotic Headtrip Worth Taking
April 12, 2013 Director Danny Boyle, fresh off being dubbed a national hero for his triumph directing the Olympic ceremonies in London, took another big directorial risk with his new release Trance. It is a frenetic, haunting genre-bender that grabs hold of and keeps your attention from its first moments to its last with such …
Looper: A Loopy Mind-Bender Worth Your Time
Friday, September 28, 2012 Looper is an ambitious and deeper take on time-travel and the future than the usual sci-fi action flick, and if approached with patience and an open mind, it will blow yours away at least as much as the oft-featured blunderbuss in the film. It starts slowly. In fact, it maintains a …
Lawless – Bloody Good Acting
Monday, September 3, 2012 Just opening on the big screen is Lawless, the story of three brothers who made and ran moonshine in Franklin County, VA. It is based on a book by local novelist Matt Bondurant with a screenplay written by Nick Cave. This indie release, directed by Aussie John Hillcoat, brings together a …
The Amazing Spider-Man: It’s Got Power!
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 Ahhh, Spider-Man. How amazing can another one be? If you’ve been reading my reviews for a while, you know two things about Cinema Siren: 1. There will be no bashing a movie just because it’s the fashion to hate blockbusters. 2. There will be no bending to the will of the …
MEN IN BLACK 3: Rick Baker, Josh Brolin Help Create the Best of the Franchise
Friday, May 25, 2012 If you’re like me, you may have pondered, “Why, 10 years after an MIB sequel that stunk up the theatre like Edgar the Bug’s rotting human skin, are they releasing another sequel? How can it possibly be worth seeing?” Well, you ask, is it? Oh yeah! Definitely the best of the …
Battleship: A Waterlogged Absurdity You Can Cheer For
Friday, May 18, 2012 Battleship feels like a two-hour Navy recruitment video. I’m surprised blue and gold aren’t the colors used on the movie poster, along with “GO NAVY!” and “BEAT ALIENS!” If you leave your brain at the front door of the multiplex on a day you feel like rooting for the home team, …