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Friday, October 5, 2012

Movie Reviews by Cinema Siren

'Frankenweenie:' An Instant Stop Motion Classic

Panoramic vistas take your breath away.

PARIS — This week, Cinema Siren is writing from France, land of unpasteurized cheese, Jerry Lewis obsession, well-behaved dogs in restaurants and a great appreciation of auteur film directors. I'm here for the opening of a Star Wars toy exhibit at the Louvre that involves some film art friends of mine.   Nowhere would there be a better place to speak of the gorgeous piece of animated film-making that is Frankenweenie than where there is in fact no literal translation for "director's cut," because it wouldnt occur to the French that there would be any other version of a film. Tim Burton is really the very definition of auteur, in that he has a very clear vision for his film-making, a recognizable stylistic stamp that fans embrace and revere…

Friday, May 11, 2012

Movie Reviews by Cinema Siren

'Dark Shadows': A Mere Shadow of What It Could Be

PG-13 Johnny Depp film opens in theaters this weekend.

Tim Burton, as the stylized director of such glorious oddities as "Edward Scissorhands," "Beetlejuice," and "Ed Wood," is the pied piper to the inner goth in all of us. So it is with a heavy heart Cinema Siren has to report "Dark Shadows," while it might have moments of loopy greatness and top-notch production and costume design, it is on the whole the most tragic of cinematic sins: A bore.   The greatness is in some particularly exciting and fast-paced scenes, that are strangely intermittent in its 116 minutes, and so at odds with the soap opera ploddings of the rest of the film. The first minutes of "Dark Shadows" show great promise. Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp, in his eighth partnership with director Burton) is the rakish son of a …

Mary Capps

1:15 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012

I was a big DS fan in the day!!! I think this movie was great!! If people did not watch the show back then it may not be as enjoyable but I loved it!!!!!   more ›

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