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Marilyn Monroe Recalled

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 6, 2012 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—This week marks the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s untimely death. One of her most acclaimed movies was Billy Wilder’s “Some Like it Hot,” in which she co-starred with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The film is considered one of the funn [...]

A Return to Drogheda in ‘Pioneers of Television’

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|August 6, 2012 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s been 30 years since “The Thorn Birds” co-stars Richard Chamberlain, Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward have appeared together, but they finally got a chance to reminisce about their groundbreaking miniseries at the TV Critics tour PBS program “Pione [...]

Tasty ‘Killer Joe’ is Finger-Lickin’ Bad

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|August 1, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The vulgar, violent and sometimes just plain vile “Killer Joe” is so irresistibly nasty it’s finger-lickin’ bad. And that’s good. A combination of white trash characters and vicious black humor puts this fitfully funny f [...]

‘Kent Chronicles’ Trilogy Available on DVD

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|August 1, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—During the Golden Age of the miniseries—the late 1970s—TV viewers were transported back to the beginnings of America as seen through the eyes of a French-English immigrant in the mesmerizing melodramatic trilogy “The Kent Chronicles,” based on the pop [...]

‘360’ Movie’s Connections Go Full Circle

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|August 1, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles keeps a half-dozen or so plots spinning in “360,” an irresistibly engrossing collection of tales that range from trashy to tragic. From a pragmatic Eastern European prostitute to a ber [...]

‘Celeste & Jesse’ Are Odd Couple Exes

Film Reviews Reviews By James Dawson|July 31, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Celeste & Jesse Forever” isn’t terribly good, but this awkward romance at least gets points for presenting an unusual premise. Silly and sickeningly sympatico soulmates Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) seem to b [...]

Cranston Reflects on ‘Recall,’ ‘Breaking Bad’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 30, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bryan Cranston’s portrayal of desperate drug lord Walter White in “Breaking Bad” has won him three consecutive Best Actor Emmys, and he is disturbingly believable as the murderous Chancellor Cohaagen in the new “Total RecallR [...]

Andy Samberg Gets Romantic in ‘Celeste & Jesse’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 30, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Departing “Saturday Night Live” cast member Andy Samberg reveals his romantic side in the comedy “Celeste & Jesse Forever.” Samberg, 33, is best known for his comical Digital Shorts on the long-running sketch comedy series for seven seasons. He al [...]

Farrell Remake Retools ‘Total Recall’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 29, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Colin Farrell may look menacingly manly with dark beard stubble and a black T-shirt that shows off tattoos on both arms during a recent interview. But when it came to starring in a redo of 1990’s “Total Recall,” the charmingly likable [...]

Not Much Worth Seeing in ‘Watch’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 26, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Watch” turns out to be less than the sum of its slowly moving parts. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill bring enough star power to this suburban sci-fi silliness that it should have been a comedy Rolex. Instead, the relatively [...]