By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The doctor is out…of this world! Marvel’s mystical “Doctor Strange,” who originated in 1960s comics by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, is a surrealistically spell-spinning sorcerer who employs magic instead of might to fend [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Junho Chung’s beautifully drawn animated version of “The Little Match Girl,” which was broadcast in 2003 on Los Angeles’ then PBS affiliate KCET’s “Fine Line” program devoted to student films but never made a [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jonas Cuaron co-wrote “Gravity,” the Academy Award winning outer space adventure starring Sandra Bullock with his father, Alfonso Cuaron. He now tackles a more down-to-earth problem—the immigration debate—in the chase drama “Desierto.” Cuaron, who was [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Dakota Fanning plays a teen that seems to have it all in middle-class 1960s America but she is driven to a very dark place with her abhorrence with the Vietnam War in the family drama “American Pastoral.” Merry (Fanning) has a loving family and a beau [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ewan McGregor makes his directorial debut with the screen adaptation of Philip Roth’s Pulitzer prizewinning novel “American Pastoral.” McGregor also stars in the heart-wrenching family drama as a father during the turbulent ‘60s, dealing with a rebell [...]