By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hollywood’s biggest action stars—old and young—return for another round of big screen action and witty banter, playing off their iconic images in “The Expendables 2.” Among them is Jason Statham, who at 41 is one of the younger members of this ensembl [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD— Matt Damon became an action star playing amnesiac spy Jason Bourne in the “Bourne” trilogy based on Robert Ludlum’s popular novels. The action-packed franchise earned nearly $1 billion globally at the box office. Building on the foundation of the “Bo [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—This week marks the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s untimely death. One of her most acclaimed movies was Billy Wilder’s “Some Like it Hot,” in which she co-starred with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The film is considered one of the funn [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s been 30 years since “The Thorn Birds” co-stars Richard Chamberlain, Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward have appeared together, but they finally got a chance to reminisce about their groundbreaking miniseries at the TV Critics tour PBS program “Pione [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The vulgar, violent and sometimes just plain vile “Killer Joe” is so irresistibly nasty it’s finger-lickin’ bad. And that’s good. A combination of white trash characters and vicious black humor puts this fitfully funny f [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—During the Golden Age of the miniseries—the late 1970s—TV viewers were transported back to the beginnings of America as seen through the eyes of a French-English immigrant in the mesmerizing melodramatic trilogy “The Kent Chronicles,” based on the pop [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles keeps a half-dozen or so plots spinning in “360,” an irresistibly engrossing collection of tales that range from trashy to tragic. From a pragmatic Eastern European prostitute to a ber [...]