By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kristen Wiig is best known for the wacky characters she played as a cast member for eight years on “Saturday Night Live,” as well as the goofballs she has played on the big screen in comedies like ‘Knocked Up,” “Bridesmaids” and “The Heat.” Of late, t [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Never fully committing either to high-emotion melodrama or the cold equations of a grim techno-thriller, “The Martian” adequately straddles both genres thanks to the likeability of star Matt Damon as an impressively improvising astronaut. [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Here’s the secret that apparently eluded the makers of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”: Eliminating the elaborate CGI fantasies that serve as its main advertising draw actually would have improved the movie. This well photographed [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At 20, Miranda Cosgrove has been acting for more than half her life. But don’t confuse her with so many of the other child performers who have gone astray. You’re not likely to see Cosgrove, who most notably starred in the kid-friendly Nickelodeon ser [...]