Penguins of Madagascar: These Dreamworks Birds Try But Can’t Fly
Penguins of Madagascar has giggles and chuckles enough to satisfy those looking for a mild diversion. Sadly, It leaves animation fans who love the penguins from previous movies feeling disappointed by frenetic plotting and decidedly inconsistent character development. The whole adventure plays like it started out targeted to adults only to be audience-tested to death …
The Hunger Games Mockingjay: Part 1 Movie Review
Propaganda 101: The Mental Hunger Games Those dedicated fans who read all the books in The Hunger Games series need no further impetus to see Mockingjay Part 1 in theaters. The only question relating to them is whether they will see it this weekend and help break all former records this box office powerhouse has …
The Theory of Everything: Leads Deserve to be Lauded
The biopic is a very unforgiving genre in the world of movies. Pitfalls inherent to them are the predictably seen timeline from youth to success or nearly insurmountable challenge in the usual chronological order, the whitewashing of edgier aspects of the subject as if the film was created with permission, and an ending that celebrates …
Interstellar: Cinema Siren’s 4 1/2 of 5 Review
“Do not go gently into that good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” These lines from a Dylan Thomas poem are used repeatedly in Christopher Nolan’s newest colossal undertaking Interstellar, and this quote, which seems a cheeky, obvious, and heavy handed play at …
Willie Ito-Master Animator
With nearly 60 years as an animation artist, Willie Ito has done it all. He worked at Disney on Lady and the Tramp’s spaghetti scene with mentor Iwao Takamoto and on One Froggy Evening and What’s Opera Doc at Warner Bros’ famed Termite Terrace under Chuck Jones’ direction. He went on to The Beany and …