By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic As the mentally-enhanced and mega-powerful main character of director/writer Luc Besson’s outrageously entertaining “Lucy,” Scarlett Johansson makes the badass Black Widow character she plays in Marvel’s superhero movies look [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Filmmaker Woody Allen was determined to have Colin Firth star in his ‘20s-set romantic comedy “Magic in the Moonlight,” even though the Oscar-winner was unavailable because he already was committed to do another project. Perhaps the Wood-man conjured [...]
****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS FILM OPENS AUGUST 22 BUT THERE IS NO EMBARGO.**** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The irresistibly odd “Frank” is an unexpectedly endearing but sometimes dark character study revolving around an eccentric avant garde musician who constantly wea [...]
*****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS REVIEW IS EMBARGOED FROM PUBLICATION UNTIL FRIDAY, AUGUST 1.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Guardians of the Galaxy” is the movie that non-fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” worried “The Avengers” would turn out [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kelly Noonan is an up and coming actress who is athletic, beautiful, smart (she graduated from magna cum laude from UCLA) and full of energy. She’s also full of surprises. Reached by phone on a recent weekday afternoon, she reveals she is on her way t [...]