By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As theatergoers discovered the life before “The Wizard of Oz” through the recent theatrical release of Disney’s “Oz The Great and Powerful,” viewers will experience that excitement with the Blu-ray/DVD and digital On- [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Funny, frisky and fabulous, writer/director Pedro Almodóvar’s “I’m So Excited!” is the kind of feel-good dirty fun that’s both extremely naughty and irresistibly nice. Each cast member behaves badly in one way or another [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In an industry full of troubled young actresses like Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes, Saoirse Ronan is an exception. The Dublin-born teen does all of her acting out onscreen. She’s played a trained killer in “Hanna” and reputation-ruining little liar i [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Two of this month’s movies are about a pair of unconventional wannabes motivating a group of similar misfits to achieve unlikely greatness. Pixar’s “Monsters University” is the good one. “The Internship” is the one [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ethan Hawke appears in two very different movies now showing in theaters—and that’s just as the chameleon-like actor likes it. “I’ve managed to do this for more than 20 years and keep dodging and weaving and not being one thing,” says the veteran perf [...]