By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When it comes to voiceover narration, no actor comes as close to evoking just the right mix of authority, folksiness, clarity and intelligence than Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman. Indeed, the Memphis, Tenn. native’s acting career began four decad [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Oblivion,” the second film by “TRON: Legacy” director Joseph Kosinski, offers a stylishly imaginative mix of science-fiction action, psychological suspense and grown-up romance. The plot has a few holes, and the movie’s [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Olga Kurylenko is becoming the go-to actress for Hollywood action movies. The statuesque Ukraine-born brunette starred opposite Daniel Craig in 2008’s “Quantum of Solace,” holding her own against the James Bond star as a woman focused on avenging the [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Although Morgan Freeman and Tom Cruise have headlined Hollywood films for decades, the two prolific actors never appeared onscreen together until this year. (Freeman narrated the 2005 Cruise starrer “War of the Worlds,” but the two did not interact in [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Morgan Freeman knows something about authority figures, having played a number of them over the years, including a school principal in “Lean on Me,” a brigadier general in “Outbreak,” the U.S. president in “Deep Impact” and the Almighty himself in two [...]
(EDITORS: PLEASE NOTE THAT OBSCENITIES HAVE BEEN ASTERISKED) By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Gerard Butler may be a Scottish by birth but having made his success as an actor here in America, the “300” star appears to have adopted a certain amount of patriotic pride on this side of t [...]