Author: Leslie Combemale

International Film and Animation Art Expert

Cinema Siren’s Top 10 Movie Posters of 2015

Cinema Siren, aka Leslie Combemale, expert on film art, owner of ArtInsights Animation and Film Art Gallery, and representative of the estate of John Alvin, counts down her top ten movie posters and campaigns for 2015. Find out what made the list!

Cinema Siren’s Must See Indie Movies in 2015

What is an Indie?  The idea of just what constitutes an Independent movie has morphed quite a bit and continues to do so.  There was a time when Lionsgate was considered a true Indie distributor and production company, and some might argue it still is, even with one of the top grossing movies of all …

SELMA: Cinema Siren Interviews Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo

  Leslie Combemale aka Cinema Siren conducts an exclusive interview with the director and lead actor of Selma:  

Into the Woods Movie Review: The Ultimate in Wish Fulfillment

‘This dark delicious operetta is a perfect palate cleanse from a dysfunctional holiday.’ Be careful what you wish for. That’s the tagline for the new musical movie adaptation of Into the Woods. If you are yearning for a new musical that is dark, complicated, and funny, as well as beautifully constructed, and at times more …

Selma Movie Review: 5 out of 5 stars

Why Selma is Cinema Siren’s #1 film of 2014 What makes Selma, the new release by producer/director Ava DuVernay, truly spectacular as a film, is the balance it finds between expansive traditional biography and a more intimate independent-minded personal film. In some ways that’s what Martin Luther King, the subject of this movie, grappled with; …