By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” hits theaters just in time for the holidays. The New Zealand filmmaker returns to Middle-earth with Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and his band of dwarf companions on their quest to reclaim the Lon [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Here’s the secret that apparently eluded the makers of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”: Eliminating the elaborate CGI fantasies that serve as its main advertising draw actually would have improved the movie. This well photographed [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Just in time for holiday shopping, the 16th season of “The Simpsons,” has arrived on DVD and Blu-ray. This season originally ran on Fox from November 2004 through May of 2005. Professor Frink, Springfield’s beaver-toothed, slightly muddled mad scientist char [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Emma Thompson knows how to make an entrance. As the renowned British actress arrives for a press conference in the ballroom of a tony Beverly Hills hotel to promote her new Disney movie “Saving Mr. Banks,” she climbs over the dais to her seat rather t [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Don’t let the title fool you. Although the new feature-length documentary “Six by Sondheim” devotes special attention to a mere half-dozen of the acclaimed lyricist/composer’s songs, it also provides a fascinating look at Step [...]