Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Cinema Siren had settled in to write the “Dysfunctional Family Holiday Movie Guide”, tucking into the first mulled wine of the season, only to discover all the great holiday movies, like all great families, show some dysfunction. It’s a Wonderful Life has a drunken and enabled uncle. The whole premise of …
Friday, September 30, 2011 Some people’s favorite day of the year is Halloween by a fairly wide margin. It is now second only to Christmas for holidays with the most money spent in celebration. Like Christmas, the window for the promotion and sale of Halloween merch is expanding every year. Cinema Siren hollers Huzzah! This …
Saturday, August 6, 2011 Sometimes it’s just too hot to go outside. The DC area can feel like the surface of the sun, and while Cinema Siren exists to get find movies worthy of sending film fans back into a big dark theatre near you, in August, there is something to be said for staying …
Sunday, July 31, 2011 Dear “Cowboys and Aliens” and “The Smurfs”: If this town “ain’t smurfin’ big enough for the three of ya”, the romantic dramedy “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” gets my vote for charming its way to the top at the box office. I have so been lulled into expecting romcoms to be written badly, …
Saturday, May 28, 2011 Every movie should have a smoking monkey with a Rolling Stones vest. Sadly, they don’t, but the good news for Hangover 2 is, it does. I’ll save you much time in reading this review in your busy schedule, by making it short and sweet. I liked Hangover 1. And I liked …
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 …
