By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Emma Stone reunites with her “Crazy, Stupid, Love” and “Gangster Squad” co-star Ryan Gosling as they appear as star-crossed struggling artists in “La La Land,” filmmaker Damien Chazelle’s musical love letter to the City of Angels. The 28-year-old “It” [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—While Woody Allen’s new film, “Magic in the Moonlight” appears to be simply another European-set period romp starring dashing English actor Colin Firth and pretty ingénue Emma Stone, upon closer examination, the feature turns out to be a dissertation o [...]
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 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—Marc Webb returns to helm the second installment of the rebooted web-slinging superhero series with “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.” The Bloomington, Ind. native says it’s important to present a Spider-Man that is not stoic, but a kid. He says it’s importan [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Amazing Spider-Man,” 2012’s first installment of the webslinger’s rebooted film franchise, was more interesting, fun and faithful to the character than any of the three earlier films this century featuring the Marvel Comi [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Better in every way than the recent trilogy it reboots, “The Amazing Spider-Man” succeeds by boldly going forward into the comic-book character’s past. The epic-length 138-minute adventure not only updates the web-slinger’s or [...]