September 21, 2013 Prisoners should come with a warning: Angst alert! Sitting through the new film by Oscar-nominated Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve, is like choosing to experience 2.5 hours of emotional torture. But potential audiences shouldn’t let that keep them from journeying through the complicated morality maze that is this story of abduction, vigilantism and …
August 3, 2013 Ever since Bryan Singer, director of the upcoming Marvel X-stravaganza surprised fans at San Diego Comic-Con by bringing all top members of the cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past has been in the top of the entertainment news feed. Stories have been multiplying exponentially, as clever, hooking, Web marketing (like the …
July 27, 2013 With his colossal muscle “guns” and his thousand-watt smile, there is a reason the magnetic and charming Mr. Jackman makes the biggest bucks. It might about the reason he has played the same superhero more times than anyone else on film (six with The Wolverine, seven with 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future …
The film makers want to ask you, “Will you join in their crusade?” After much promotion and fanfare, a new musical film interpretation of Les Misérables is opening nationwide. For you non-“Mis” folk, the story is of Prisoner 24601, Jean Valjean, who breaks parole, is hunted relentlessly by Inspector Javert and encounters various troubled and impoverished …
Saturday, October 8, 2011 Sometimes Cinema Siren is dragged to a movie with only the promise of a hot chest and 6-pack abs, and the rock’em-sock’em robot Rocky story Real Steel seemed to have only Hugh Jackman’s considerable visual charms going for it. When you enter a theatre counting the minutes before shirt removal (no …
