(NOTE TO EDITORS: THE EMBARGO FOR “DRINKING BUDDIES” IS AUGUST 25 WHEN IT WILL BE AVAILABLE ON ITUNES/ON DEMAND. THERE IS NO EMBARGO FOR “SPECTACULAR NOW,” WHICH OPENS IN THEATERS AUGUST 2.) By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The weavingly meandering infidelity [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Strange, savage and yet sleekly elegant, the dreamlike film noir thriller “Only God Forgives” is the best film I’ve seen so far this year. If David Lynch directed a Jim Thompson novel in Thailand, it might look a lot like this one:  [...]

  By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—With the release of the raunchy sci-fi comedy, “This Is the End,” in which actors Jonah Hill, James Franco, Michael Cera, Emma Watson, singer Rihanna and other popular performers play fictional versions of themselves, it made me thi [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—In a summer of superheroes, even the queen is getting in on the action. Dame Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar (and just about every other acting award) for her humanizing depiction of Queen Elizabeth II few years ago reprises her comic book character rol [...]