By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic When Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room” premiered in 2003, the first-time feature film director, writer, actor and producer was hopeful that he had an Academy Award-winning film on his hands. He believed in his movie so much, which followed a love triangle of [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winner Octavia Spencer is starting to feel stuck. In 1962. And she wants out. “This is my third time,” she says during an interview, referring to playing a character of that segregated era. In Guillermo del Toro’s much buzzed about f [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Anyone can make a bad movie, but it takes a special kind of filmmaker to cook up a memorable turkey. Hollywood is known to celebrate such dreamers. Tim Burton, for example, paid tribute to horrormeister Ed Wood, with a 1994 dramedy starring Johnny Dep [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features From Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic,” “Ocean’s” trilogy) comes a caper comedy with a twist. “Logan Lucky” rides into retailers Tuesday Nov. 28 on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Th [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Shape of Water” is an R-rated and sometimes viciously grim adult fairy tale with a sweetly sensual and irresistibly touching cross-species romance at its center. Although occasionally reminiscent of numerous other films in plot or ap [...]