January 23, 2014 For those of you who are music lovers out there, if you are not keeping up with the best and newest in film scores for your collecting and listening pleasure, you are missing out on something truly great. This is not said by Cinema Siren as an impetus for yet more conspicuous …
CinemaSiren
Cinema Siren’s 2014 Oscar Predictions
January 18, 2014 It’s time, Sirenauts and movie lovers! The Oscar nominations are in, and now those of you who care must race to your nearest theater if you want to have a studied opinion about the results of the upcoming Oscars (March 2). As is the way with the Academy, they were up bright …
August: Osage County – Calling All Masochists
January 9, 2013 Imagine taking about a dozen great musicians, giving them the same song, and asking them to all line up and sing it to an audience at the top of their lungs, at different speeds, each with their own Marshall stack of amplifiers. Now imagine the cinematic interpretation of a play about family …
Cinema Siren’s Top Ten Soon-to-Be Classic Movies of 2013
January 4, 2013 A great movie is often released at the perfect time to reflect what’s happening in society, but more importantly, it has an extra something that gives it a long-term appeal to keep fans watching it or remembering it for many years. It creates loyalists. It gets added to a movie lover’s “best …
Cinema Siren’s Must-See Movies for the Holidays: ‘Her,’ ‘American Hustle,’ ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ and More
December 26, 2013 This is a holiday weekend, and we can all use a few hours of escapism between parties or family gatherings, no? Of course! Cinema Siren has just the thing. Here are five movies that have been released in the last few weeks that might be the perfect way to recharge or …
American Hustle: The Art of a Con Movie
December 19, 2013 Movie lovers, prepare to be gobsmacked. The art of the con meets the art of filmmaking in writer/director David O Russell’s spectacular latest release American Hustle, a movie that leaves you agog with the acting prowess displayed therein, and agog at how Russell finds a way to entertain so thoroughly using such …
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Jackson Makes the Middle Movie Marvelous
December 13, 2014 It’s December! That means it’s time again to enter the world of JRR Tolkien as brought to the screen by director Peter Jackson, with all its creatures, magic and the fur-covered feet of an old friend. I speak of course of The Hobbit’s second installment, The Desolation of Smaug, and its reluctant …
Cinema Siren’s Best Actor Oscar Contenders for 2014
December 7, 2013 What a year for acting 2013 has been. Cinema Siren is excited to give you readers some ideas for must-see movies in the last months of 2013 and into the new year to prepare for Oscar season…and don’t you want to know what to do when you’ve been holiday shopping for hours …