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 …
Monday, November 7, 2011 “The name ‘Chuck Jones,’ according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist”…This is what Chuck Jones said about himself. We cartoon lovers are all supremely grateful for his choice of career! Now his fans and family are preparing to celebrate his centennial birthday with …
Monday, July 12, 2010 I apologize in advance to movie fans who read Cinema Siren in hopes of discovering little gems of movies few have seen or heard of…this time around i’m embracing the obvious, the celebrated, but the best of the best. I just returned from my first visit to the Norman Rockwell …
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 …
