By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bafflingly chosen as 2012’s best picture by some critics, the adequate but unexceptional “Zero Dark Thirty” is one of three wildly overpraised Oscar frontrunners this year. Like “Argo” and “Silver Linings Playbook, [...]

  By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kathryn Bigelow is in an elite category. She is the first woman to win an Academy Award for directing a feature film—that film being 2008’s war drama “The Hurt Locker.” (She also picked up a statue for producing that film.) Bigelow reteams with [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ewan McGregor is the father of four children, ranging in age from 2 to 16, but surprisingly the Scottish actor has played a parent onscreen only once or twice. In “The Impossible,” he gets a chance to play a father who puts his love and dedication to  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After a successful go as Ben Stiller’s bohemian mom in “Meet the Fockers” (and “Little Fockers”), singing-acting-directing legend Barbra Streisand is back on the big screen, this time playing Seth Rogen’s overbearing mother in “The Guilt Trip.” Streis [...]