By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “300: Rise of an Empire” is the rare sequel that manages to surpass its predecessor, 2007’s sensationally stylish swords-and-sandals saga “300.” That’s due mainly to the impressive arrival of actress Eva Green (who [...]
*****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS REVIEW IS EMBARGOED FROM PUBLICATION UNTIL SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014.**** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is so picture-book pretty, smartly constructed and thoroughly enchanting that a brief stay there will leave visito [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jason Momoa and Martin Henderson play men on opposites side of the law on the new Sundance Channel series “The Red Road,” premiering Feb. 27 at 9 p.m. Having filmed six hour-long episodes together just outside of Atlanta (standing in for New York/New [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Growing up in Birmingham, England during and just after World War II, Mike Pinder would steal away to a wooden box in the backyard where he would lay down and stare up at the moon and the stars, imagining what it would be like to travel to different w [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features With the imminent theatrical release of “300: Rise of an Empire,” the sequel to the hit 2006 swords-and-sandals epic, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is releasing for the first time a Blu-ray edition of “The 300 Spartans.” The 1962 historic epic, direc [...]