By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Greta Gerwig is irresistible as the sweetly sincere and endearingly pathetic title character of this thoroughly charming comedy from director Noah Baumbach (“Margot at the Wedding,” “Greenberg,” “The Squid and the Whale& [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In his feature directorial debut, “The English Teacher,” Craig Zisk has a cast that would be the envy of any veteran filmmaker: Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Nathan Lane, Michael Angarano and Lily Collins. The Dallas native considers himself lucky, bu [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Buckle up and hold on tight for the wildest thrill ride of the summer. This amazingly over-the-top action/soap hybrid is so much crazy fun it’s irresistible. Full of jaw-dropping stunts, gleefully preposterous plot twists and adrenaline-rush ca [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Michael Kantor, who won an Emmy in 2005 for his “Broadway: The American Musical,” a six-part series hosted by Julie Andrews, is back with yet another look at the Great White Way with “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy.” Having explored the history of [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Classic literature goes to candyland in this crazily colorful fever-dream fantasy version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel. Director Baz Luhrmann has transformed the author’s noirishly bitter jazz-age period piece into a brazenly bizar [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—On February 27, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of central Chile. It was 3:34 a.m. Up and coming Chilean director Nicolas Lopez was at home in bed. Actress Lorenza Izzo was at a club in Valparaiso, a little buzzed from a night o [...]