By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic A reclusive Internet zillionaire with a God complex creates an alluring android whose self-awareness makes her tragically soulful in this interesting if not completely convincing SF morality tale. 2013’s “Her,” about a sentient comp [...]
***Attention Editors: Embargoed until September 21.****** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Classy and classic, “The Two Faces of January” is a deliciously suspenseful film noir drama with an excellent three-person main cast, exotic foreign locations and an unwinkingly re [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The impressively acted, well written and beautifully shot period piece “In Secret” manages to morph from a convincingly Dickensian coming-of-age tale into a grimly suspenseful film noir without getting too garishly gothic about it. Combin [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Like its title character, a no-frills 1961 folk singer attempting to ply his trade in the era between clean-cut Kingston Trio conservatism and the defiant dominance of Dylan, “Inside Llewyn Davis” resides somewhere between sentimental ear [...]