By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Science fiction flicks that don’t make a lick of sense can compensate by offering a sufficient quantity of fun (“Back to the Future”) or stylized weirdness (“The Matrix”). The humorless and derivative “Looper” [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—John August, who has been tapped to write the movie version of the DC/Vertigo Comics series “Preacher” created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, describes the project as “gestating.” “I don’t know if the birth is going to be anytime soon, [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Rebel Wilson came to fame in Australia in the TV comedy series “Bogan Pride.” For non-Aussies, “bogan” is a derogatory term for someone who is uneducated and unfashionable. Of course, the plus-size Wilson, who created and starred in the series, manage [...]
*****Note to Editor: Release date is Friday September 28, and there is no embargo. ***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Less cleverly ironic and movie-musical stylized than “Glee” but obviously greenlighted to capitalize on that TV show’s success, the off-key [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At 15, Claire Danes starred as Angela Chase on the TV drama “My So-Called Life.” The ABC network series only ran 19 episodes, but became a cult favorite. Danes went on to embody such diverse characters as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Ju [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Although calling it dreadful would be too-easy overkill, “Dredd” is surprisingly dreary for a comic-book action flick. Set almost entirely in a massive 200-story concrete slum, the movie plays like a violent but not terribly involving vid [...]