By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When “Lost” went off the air, Matthew Fox, who played the heroic doctor Jack Shephard, decided to stay out of the limelight for a while. For a year he went home to Oregon and was simply a husband and father. (He has two children with his wife Margheri [...]
****NOTE TO EDITORS: Release date is Friday November 2, and reviews are embargoed until the week of release (October 29). *** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Like its four emotionally conflicted main characters, “A Late Quartet” has discordant undertones lurking beneath [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the early ‘60s, Alfred Hitchcock spied Tippi Hedren, an unknown fashion model, on a TV commercial, and was immediately infatuated with her. He brought the gorgeous blonde to Universal Studios and offered her a seven-year contract. The first movie he [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Some of the hometown landmarks Neil Young recalls during on-the-road segments of this concert documentary may be long gone, but the singer-songwriter himself remains enduringly iconic after nearly a half-century of rocking in the free world. “N [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ben Affleck has gone from leading man to a respected filmmaker the past decade or so. With the success of 2007’s “Gone Baby Gone” and 2010’s “The Town” under his belt, Affleck now tackles a historic drama involving a daring rescue in “Argo.” The 40-ye [...]