By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kevin Costner has a confession to make about his new Disney film, “McFarland USA,” in which he plays the coach of a cross country team made up of poor migrant students, who initially don’t even own running shoes. “I hate running,” the veteran actor/di [...]
By Front Row Features Staff “Birdman,” is now available on Blu-ray and DVD as well as Digital HD. The fantasy drama has been hailed as one of the most exciting and talked about films of 2014. It is up for nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Michael Keaton). Dire [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress and singer Anna Kendrick has followed up an outstanding performance in the big screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods,” with yet another memorable musical piece. Though less grandiose, the big screen version of Jason Robert Br [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic This so-so sendup of silly ’70s spy movies has enough fun with the genre to make up for its logic flaws, an inconsistent tone and many lost-in-adaptation lapses. “Kingsman: The Secret Service” is not as zippy, clever or exciting as [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic This ploddingly passionless serving of corporate-approved softcore smut is as flavorless and phony as the GMO tomatoes that should be thrown at the screen each time its brainless heroine bites her lip, utters something childishly stupid that’s [...]