By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The oddest thing about director/writer Quentin Tarantino’s wild and wicked new western “The Hateful Eight” is how unnecessary all of its lily-gilding aspects are. It’s a dialog-driven, amusingly tongue-in-cheek and sometimes i [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features “Sisters” provides a great blend of family drama, raunchy, but still funny physical humor and creative verbal barbs delivered with their usual chemistry by talented duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. When 30-something Ellis sisters Kate (Tina Fey) and Maura (Amy Poehl [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic As Han Solo himself puts it in the everything-old-is-wonderfully-new-again “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “The girl knows her stuff.” The female in question is new character Rey, a desert-planet salvage trader turned resistan [...]
By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD-Music company KoAloha hosted a special music event “Ukulele Beatles” at the Grammy Museum which featured ukulele music artists Ryo Montgomery of Australia and Ryan Imamura of Guam. The ukulele artists brought the music of the Beatles to [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have been bringing their goofy brand of girl-power humor to audiences since their days at “Saturday Night Live” cast members. After scoring a box office hit with 2008’s “Baby Mama,” the duo is joining forces again in “Sisters. [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—Chris Hemsworth trades his hammer for a harpoon as the star of “In the Heart of the Sea,” based on the true story that inspired Herman Melville to write “Moby-Dick.” The Aussie actor, best known for his role as Marvel superhero Thor, faces a formidable [...]