transcript: Captain America Civil War opens too wide release this weekend. Have we finally reached superhero saturation or will civil War directors the Russo Brothers keep audiences Crazy and clamoring for more? Cinema Siren has the answer for you! Let me start with not so much a warning, as a tease. CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR …
Read the full transcript: It’s February, time for the first good movies of 2016 to come out. Enter HAIL CAESAR!, a Coen Brothers comedy about old Hollywood, starring Josh Brolin and George Clooney, and featuring Scarlett Johansson, Ralph Fiennes, Channing Tatum, and lots of Coen regulars. From Fail to Fantastic, where does it fall in …
A brutally violent epic of determination and redemption, THE REVENANT is such a stunningly gorgeous, yet hauntingly powerful film, it deserves the many kudos and awards it’s likely to rack up in the next few months.
What a year! Some supposed blockbusters fell flat and others broke records. Lots of indie films got the audiences they were hoping for, while others still need our help. One particularly great thing happened this year: a conversation in and around Hollywood and its press began about women in film, as directors, actors, and film …
November 27, 2013 Sisters…Sisters…There were never such devoted sisters… This sentiment of Irving Berlin’s lyric from an older Christmas classic is what is at the heart of the new Disney movie being released just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Frozen, which is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s 1854 tale, “The Snow Queen”, gambles by …
November 11, 2013 Brian Percival’s The Book Thief doesn’t capture the dark poetry of the novel on which it’s based, but it does have a decided gentleness and warmth that makes it a welcome addition to this fall’s releases. It is important to stay open to the movie on its own terms. The magical realism …
November 8th, 2013 Oh for the love of the Norse gods, just how much exposition is necessary to understand the story behind Thor: The Dark World? What one would expect is a few lines at the beginning. What the audience gets is a protracted pre-history lesson. To save you, dear viewer, from what feels like …
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.
October 10, 2013 Halloween is the best excuse in the world to watch something terrifying yet life-affirming, and certainly we can all use some distraction right about now…My friend, horror aficionado and extremely talented fellow critic, Dustin Putman, has just released a great book of previous as well as brand spanking new reviews of movies …
October 3rd, 2013 As Elton John sang, “it’s lonely out in space”. In the new release Gravity, Director Alfonso Cuaron asserts it’s not only lonely, it’s also beautiful, vast, and terrifying. Superlatives like “best Space movie since 1968’s 2001” are getting bandied about, and that sets a critic’s teeth on edge. One tries to avoid …
