*****Release date is Friday October 5, and there is no embargo on when reviews can run.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/screenwriter Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy” is a 1960s-set film noir that’s a sweaty and sinister pleasure. Part mystery, part  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At 13, Winona Ryder landed a plum role in Tim Burton’s horror comedy “Beetlejuice.” Young and relatively new to Hollywood at the time, she didn’t recognize the filmmaker when they first met on the Warner Bros lot. She simply assumed the gangly fellow  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Prostitution. Insanity. Infidelity. Those are some of the subjects delved into in “The Crimson Petal and the White,” a provocative four-part miniseries about an ambitious young prostitute and her wealthy john, set in Victorian England. The Gothic melodrama is b [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Joseph Gordon-Levitt is having quite a year. Having starred in the box office hit “The Dark Knight Rises” and the end-of-summer action thriller “Premium Rush,” as well as hosting  “Saturday Night Live,” the busy performer is now playing Bruce Willis.  [...]