Whoever pitched Disney’s new feature Jungle Cruise must have been a master of hyperbole. “It’s The Mummy meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets African Queen, but imagine Katherine Hepburn as a younger, smokin’ yet independent English hottie, and add the highest paid actor in the world.” If there were ever a final argument for ‘there’s nothing new under the sun’, Jungle Cruise would be …
That’s right! We have DISNEY AND LOONEY TUNES SDCC PANELS! Created, hosted, and moderated by the folks at ArtInsights. We are very excited. In fact we are SO excited and interested in a having a great panel that we went out to LA and interviewed a few folks about their careers so we could be prepared. …
If you love animation, and are looking for something interesting to do this weekend, I suggest heading to your nearest museum. Are you surprised I wrote “museum” and not cinema? Well, the fact is, there are several exhibitions happening all over the United States right now which feature animation. A museum setting is a wonderful …
Picture the cult revenge fantasy flick I Spit on your Grave with a happy ending and some magic, and your imagination might approximate the experience of watching Disney’s new release Maleficent, starring a fearless, luminescent Angelina Jolie. A film that vacillates between torture and bliss, it attempts to alter the story of the basic subject matter with …
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 …
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 …
December 1, 2012 Last year I offered my top 10 Christmas cartoons for the first time. As an animation art gallery owner of 25 years, and an animation historian, I have been studying and enjoying them a long time. What an uproar I caused! I got a veritable avalanche of emails about the cartoons …
Saturday, September 15, 2012 If Cinema Siren had a dime for every time a perfectly down-to-earth average adult said Finding Nemo is one of their favorite movies, I might have a yacht as big as Steven Spielberg’s. The Siren knows animation. Alter ego Leslie Combemale owns a gallery that has specialized in animation and film …
Friday, March 9, 2012 Here Cinema Siren goes again, going against the critical masses. I love John Carter. While it groans under the pressure of its need for exposition, it is an exotic and thrilling space tale that embraces it’s awkward hugeness with such a sense of fun and excitement, I, along with much of …
Friday, January 13, 2012 Beauty and the Beast, as the song says, may be “A Tale as Old As Time,” but the story as told in Disney’s 1991 film, was one of the movies to usher in the new golden age of animation for the studio. Beauty and the Beast came just after Roger Rabbit …
