For Mother’s Day, a myriad of movie reviewers rank the top ten mothers in movie with Joan Crawford from Mommy Dearest and Sarah Conner from The Terminator making the lists. Given the holiday is meant to celebrate the best qualities of motherhood, I thought perhaps an idealistic look a bit further backward might be a …
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, …
Monday, July 12, 2010 I apologize in advance to movie fans who read Cinema Siren in hopes of discovering little gems of movies few have seen or heard of…this time around i’m embracing the obvious, the celebrated, but the best of the best. I just returned from my first visit to the Norman Rockwell …
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 As memorial day weekend approaches, and the mammoth summer blockbusters are lined up, tarted up, and beaconing us, (reviews of which will be forthcoming in next week’s paper) Cinema Siren thought it would be good to approach the holiday from a unique angle. Instead of reviewing the colossus-son-of-last-year’s-hit, i’ll be …
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 In the history of the silver screen, there have been many films that have been underrated, under appreciated, or gone unnoticed, but few reach the level of magnificence and genius as the suspenseful, alternately lyrical and visually jarring American gothic creepfest, “The Night of the Hunter”. Amidst hundreds of cherished ones, …
