By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Jason Schwartzman makes obnoxiousness strangely appealing as the prickly title character of “Listen Up Philip,” an intelligently literate dramedy written and directed by Alex Ross Perry. The casually dismissive Philip Lewis Friedman is a dissatisfied [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Film Critic “Dracula Untold” presents a newer take on the age-old vampire tale. Based loosely on the true exploits of Transylvanian prince Vlad the Impaler, the film serves as an origin story for what Universal hopes will be a monsterpalooza reincarnating the stu [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—For three years, Bella Thorne was best known for her role as CeCe on Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up!” in which she played a dyslexic dancer. Dyslexic in real life, playing the character wasn’t too much of a stretch. Yet the determined 16-year-old hasn’ [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Sarah Gadon had one request when she was cast in the role of Mirena, the fanged one’s wife, in “Dracula Untold.” “No corsets,” she begged the film’s costume designer Ngila Dickson. She’d had her fill of the restrictive garment while filming “Belle,” a [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In “The Judge,” Billy Bob Thornton (“Sling Blade”) plays a prosecutor who is out to convince a small town jury that a revered judge, played by Robert Duvall (“Tender Mercies,” “The Godfather” trilogy) of 42 years has committed murder by intentionally [...]