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INFINITELY POLAR BEAR: Review and Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Maya Forbes

By Leslie Combemale | July 27, 2015 | Comments Off on INFINITELY POLAR BEAR: Review and Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Maya Forbes

Mark Ruffalo committed to an indie flick written and directed by director Maya Forbes for good reason. Watch my interview with her and my review of the movie that chronicles her childhood with a manic depressive dad. We laugh, we go deep, and we talk about why the movie needed to be made…  

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SELMA: Movie Review and Exclusive Interview with Ava DuVernay & David Oyelowo

By Leslie Combemale | December 25, 2014 | Comments Off on SELMA: Movie Review and Exclusive Interview with Ava DuVernay & David Oyelowo

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 …

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