By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic To dismiss “Ocean’s 8” as just a female “Ocean’s Eleven” isn’t giving the fun-filled caper the credit it so rightfully deserves. A worthy addition to the modern era “Ocean’s” franchise, which began in 2001 with director Steven Soderbergh’s remake of  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—The #MeToo movement is starting to take hold in Hollywood. Seventeen years after George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon and the other Hollywood hunks (and Julia Roberts) that headlined the remake of 1960’s testosterone-charged heist movie “ [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A press conference for the highly anticipated “Thor: Ragnarok” begins to resemble an episode of “The Price is Right” game show, with press and bloggers assigned numbers to enter a hotel ballroom to interview—or at least gaze upon and record—cast membe [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The surprisingly silly “Thor: Ragnarok” subverts the big-name superhero genre in a way that could signal a questionable shift in direction for future Marvel movies: Once they’ve gone wacky, can they ever go back? Although every prev [...]