Monday, January 7, 2013
The great, the bizarre and the awful.
The box office receipts didn't automatically match studio expectations in 2012. For once, some of the most lauded movies took money away from the mediocre ones. This year we saw superheroes, grown-up movies, genre mash-ups and cartoons scoring places at the top of the box office. Much was made about big flops, from the divisive John Carter and ridiculous Battleship, both of which starred the same unlucky actor. This topsy turvy year in the world of film is likely to lead to some interesting shifts in focus for actors and filmmakers alike. Out of respect and a hope for healing I'm sure we all wish for the families involved in Colorado, Cinema Siren isn't going to spend much time on the movie event in 2012 that made the most newspapers. Any…
Friday, July 20, 2012
Film opened nationwide at 12:01 a.m. Friday.
One can be driven or inspired to rise up for all the right or wrong reasons. Sometimes, as in the case of The Dark Knight Rises, it's a mixture of both. TDKR, as it was called at San Diego Comic-Con where it was on everyone's lips, is sprawling, overlong, dark as hell, and a spectacle we could call director Christopher Nolan's action masterpiece. This is not the summer party that The Avengers is. In it's disturbing and unrelenting dystopic hopelessness, it is almost as antithetical as another superhero movie can be to Whedon's film. True fans of the Batman comic book catalogue will appreciate that some of the darkest and most mythic plot lines are mined (like "The Dark Halloween," "Knightfall," "No Man's Land" and even a touch of "…
Is it curtains for the caped crusader?
Well, it's over. "The Dark Knight Rises"—the conclusion of the three-film Batman series by director Christopher Nolan—was arguably the most anticipated summer movie ever. Thousands of Northern Virginians waited for hours in line in the rain Thursday night to be the first to see it as it made its debut just after midnight. Most area theaters sold out, including the AMC Hoffman (all 22 screens) and the Kingstowne 16. Fans wore Batman T-shirts, costumes, replica headpieces and even feathered caps. "I haven't ever waited this long in line," said Alexandria resident Tamara Gonzalez, 22, who waited for five hours at the head of the line with four of her friends at the AMC Hoffman. In Kingstowne, it looked like Lorton's David Bernier, 20, and …
TaterSalad
7:14 pm on Saturday, September 1, 2012
#1 in the box office and yet the liberal press doesn't mention this documentary that Barack Obama does not want you to watch. I wonder why? http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/09/01/Box-Office-Spet-1-2012 more ›