By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The personal and powerful “End of Watch” is stylish enough to outclass most cops-on-the-beat dramas thanks to its imaginative direction and clever camerawork. But what makes the movie a must-see is the unexpected humanity of its out of th [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ezra Miller, who played the sociopathic title character in last year’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” is nothing like that and other dark troubled youths he has played in his brief but productive career. In fact, when he calls an hour late by phone fr [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Growing up in the Los Angeles suburbs, America Ferrera and her large family lived far away from the crime-infested wretchedness of the inner city. Yet the petite Latina was keenly aware of the racial tensions that existed in the City of Angels. Though [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” is brilliant, beautiful, often unsettling and emotionally devastating. Forget the media shorthand that shortchanges the film by describing it as a fictionalized biography of Scient [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Billy Burke has been acting since 1990, and has appeared in a plethora of TV shows such as “Rizzoli & Isles,” “The Closer” and “24,” and movies like “Ladder 49,” “Fracture” and as Charlie Swan, B [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Report Acorn Media, Masterpiece/WGBH, ITV and Eleventh Hour Films released today the first images from the set of “Foyle’s War.” The three new episodes will air as part of the Masterpiece Mystery! Season on PBS in summer of 2013. “World War II [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON HOLLYWOOD—Following her star-making turn last year in the psychological thriller “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” and subsequent worthwhile performances this year in the horror thriller “Silent House” and the psychological thriller “Red Lights,” Elizabeth Olsen returns to the big scre [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Only the aggravatingly unwatchable “Rock of Ages” keeps the excruciatingly irritating “Liberal Arts” from being the worst movie I’ve seen so far this year. The former is a misbegotten musical that’s campily moronic [...]