If you take Ocean’s Eleven and add the sensibilities and style of DreamWorks Animation, you’ll get the new animated feature The Bad Guys. It’s a fun conceit, especially when some of the best comedians and actors in the business are supplying voices for the lead characters. Oscar winner Sam Rockwell plays the lead bad guy Mr Wolf, with …
Perhaps you’ve heard about Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust-era graphic novel Maus, which has gotten a lot of press lately for being banned in Tennessee. That press probably made it even more famous and widely read. It’s a gorgeous, culturally valuable book, and it should be celebrated. So too, should Leben? Oder Theater? (Life? or Theatre?), an …
Flee first entered into the cinematic fray at 2021 Sundance Film Festival, where the buzz was nearly deafening, calling it one of the best films, animated or otherwise, of the year. It racked up a slew of awards starting with Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary section, and going on to win Best …
If you love animation, and are looking for something interesting to do this weekend, I suggest heading to your nearest museum. Are you surprised I wrote “museum” and not cinema? Well, the fact is, there are several exhibitions happening all over the United States right now which feature animation. A museum setting is a wonderful …
April 11, 2014 The Brazilian director of the computer animated $484 million dollar blockbuster, Rio, Carlos Saldanha and Blue Sky Studios come together again for a sequel, bringing gorgeous color, highly detailed backgrounds, enhanced characterization and better songs to Rio 2, making it a far superior film than its predecessor. Also the director of several …
There are some nights, weekends or procrastination breaks where you want to watch a film and you want to watch it RIGHT NOW! For times like this, Netflix has a diverse offering of animated films available On Demand, which is perfect for instant gratification. The list below will help guide you to a satisfying feature, …
Until June 14th those living or traveling to New York will be able to see the animation exhibition “Funky Turns 40,” a showcase of 1970’s television animation. This exhibition is important in several ways both artistically and culturally. It highlights, through the display of original hand painted cels, the work of animators from an often …
03/08/2014 Cinema Siren finds herself in a quandary. The new 3D animated release Mr. Peabody & Sherman feels like both lots of fun and a big disappointment, right in the same 92 minutes. The animation looks dated, but the voice actors do a great job. The characters span from entertaining to incredibly annoying, and the …
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 …
World Premiere Screening and Panel Discussion Justice League: War Paley Media Center, NY January 21, 2014 Last night was cold and wintery in New York City, but it quickly heated up with animated explosions a-plenty with the world premiere screening of DC’s latest animated film Justice League: War. In attendance for the screening and …
