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 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jon M. Chu is best known for directing the dance-filled “Step Up” films along with the “Justin Bieber Believe” rise-to-fame documentary. The Palo Alto, Calif.-born filmmaker now changes his focus to something a little more magical in the globetrotting [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As Mark Ruffalo waits to hear official word on whether he will be returning as Bruce Banner/Hulk in “Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1,” slated to hit theaters in 2018, the peripatetic actor is keeping busy doing what he enjoys: making independent films [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In “Thanks for Sharing,” Gwyneth Paltrow plays a perfectionist and fitness freak that falls for a man who seems unable or unwilling to get physically romantic. She soon discovers the reason for her guy’s intimacy issues are because he is a recovering [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic While there’s a certain amount of entertainment value in seeing Iron Man’s girlfriend give the Hulk’s alter ego a slow-grind lap dance in black lingerie, that’s not nearly enough to make up for the rest of this bizarrely earne [...]