By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—Katie Holmes plays a poet with bipolar disorder whose work is fueled by her emotional extremes in the romantic drama “Touched With Fire.” As Carla, she meets Marco, also a poet (played by Luke Kirby, TV’s “Rectify”), with the same condition while recei [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The 15-year gap between 2001’s “Zoolander” and this similarly silly sequel is addressed in a quick catch-up that gets points for aging the characters in real time, but which also adds melancholy to the mirth. The movie has several g [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Rebel Wilson came to fame in Australia in the TV comedy series “Bogan Pride.” For non-Aussies, “bogan” is a derogatory term for someone who is uneducated and unfashionable. Of course, the plus-size Wilson, who created and starred in the series, manage [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The 24th James Bond film adventure “Spectre,” arrives on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday, Feb. 9. A cryptic message from the past sends James Bond (Daniel Craig) on a rogue mission to Mexico City and eventually Rome, where he meets Lucia Sciarra (Monica Bellucci), the [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Ryan Reynolds is so appealingly demented as Marvel’s super-but-no-hero motormouth “Deadpool” that he might actually make fanboys forgive him for starring in 2011’s DC Comics dud “Green Lantern.” And that’s sa [...]