By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic As the irritatingly snobbish but ultimately pathetic widow of a cheating corporate crook, Cate Blanchett actually manages to raise some sympathy for a New Depression devil in director-writer Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine.” This odd li [...]
(NOTE TO EDITORS: DUE TO THE SEXUAL NATURE OF THE FILM, YOU MAY WANT TO DECIDE WHETHER TO USE WORDS SUCH AS “TEABAGGING” THAT ARE INCLUDED BELOW. WE HAVE TRIED TO AVOID USING ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE BUT OBVIOUSLY EACH OUTLET HAS ITS OWN STANDARDS. THE EMBARGOED HAS BEEN L [...]
(NOTE TO EDITORS: EXPLICIT TERMS HAVE BEEN ASTERISKED. HOWEVER, THE WORD “MASTERBATION” APPEARS BELOW BUT CAN BE REMOVED AT YOUR DISCRETION.) By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—How often do you get a chance to go through someone’s diary—and get paid to do it? Aubrey Plaza, [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic More irritatingly obnoxious than all three of the winkingly self-satisfied “Ocean’s” movies rolled into one, the senior citizen star-cluster “RED 2” also seems as awkwardly redundant as a twice-told Alzheimer’s suf [...]
(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 [...]