03/24/2014 You love Jason Bateman. Of course you do. His talent, laid back demeanor, and nice guy image in Hollywood has meant a rare staying power for a man who has been in and around Hollywood since he was a 10 year old kid on Little House On The Prairie. From the film Dodgeball to …
September 14, 2013 Based on Tonino Benacquista’s novel “Malavita”, opinions on this strange little dark comedy — which marks a comedic departure for famed French action director Luc Besson — will likely be rigidly parked in one or the other of two camps. Plenty in what we will call “Camp Nous Detestons” will see it …
September 6, 2013 The fandom borne from the Harry Potter books and films has become a thing of literary legend. From the beginning, J.K. Rowling’s literary wizard world has inspired creativity in almost all corners of the artistic world: Movie series production designer Stuart Craig, book cover artists Mary Grandpre and Kazu Kibuishi? Check. Harry …
Cinema Siren interviews Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright as part of a press round table, discussing their comedy, The World’s End, which is the final film in their Cornetto trilogy. The World’s End premieres tomorrow, August 23, 2013.
March 15, 2013 I’m sitting outside the Verizon Center, once again fighting for parking this week with the sports fans next door to my screening movie theatre. It reminds me, even when it matters, sometimes the winning team is a fluke, sometimes it’s well deserved… As Cinema Siren is meant to “guide you through a …
Sunday, August 19, 2012 This movie is not for the normal, usual, run-of-the mill cartoon movie fan. No. If your kids who are less fans of Mickey Mouse and more fans of Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas, or your tweens prefer Dr. Who to the Whos in Whoville, or if your family decorates more for …
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 …
Friday, May 11, 2012 Tim Burton, as the stylized director of such glorious oddities as Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Ed Wood, is the pied piper to the inner goth in all of us. So it is with a heavy heart Cinema Siren has to report Dark Shadows, while it might have moments of loopy greatness …
Friday, March 16, 2012 We reviewers are supposed to stay objective. However, I went into 21 Jump Street, which I expected to be a derivative soulless pile of cliches, with little hope of enjoying the next 109 minutes. To my surprise it turned out to be the big hulking anatomical joke-spewing genuine bromance-building raunchcom that …
Saturday, December 10, 2011 First off, don’t we all have enough of a challenge making New Year’s Eve a holiday we actually enjoy? Well meaning Director Gary Marshall’s latest holiday offering, while clearly attempting to get us into the spirit of hope and optimism, falls so short it feels like a cinematic hangover without the …
