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EXCLUSIVE: Breaking From his TV Series, Bryan Cranston Goes Undercover in ‘Argo’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 9, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bryan Cranston has mixed emotions about the upcoming fifth and final season of the critically acclaimed AMC series “Breaking Bad.” Though he will miss his colleagues and playing the drug-dealing schoolteacher Walter White, a role that has earned him t [...]

Amped-Up ‘Argo’ Should Have Stuck to Facts

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 9, 2012 |0

*****Release date is Friday October 12, but there is no embargo on when reviews can run.****** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/star Ben Affleck’s “Argo” was overpraised with Oscar buzz after early screenings, which is unfortunate. This period piece about [...]

Mamie Gummer Scrubs Up for New TV Show

News TV Features By Judy Sloane|October 8, 2012 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Mamie Gummer has spent the last few years working constantly in featured roles on stage, screen and television. But in The CW’s new dramady “Emily Owens, M.D.,” which premieres on October 20, she gets to shine in the title role. If she [...]

‘Oranges’ Should Have Stayed on Shelf

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 5, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Rolling into theaters more than a year after a 2011 festival screening, “The Oranges” is so unappealing and flavorless it should have stayed on the shelf. What’s supposed to be a naughty dramedy about an awkward affair between a mid [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell Reteams With Martin McDonagh for ‘Seven Psychopaths’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 5, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Over the course of his career, Colin Farrell has played seven or so psychopaths, or at least characters that are unbalanced or on the verge of becoming unhinged. Extreme examples include the villainous Bullseye in “Daredevil,” the killer neighbor in 2 [...]

Not Much to Relish in ‘Frankenweenie’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 3, 2012 |0

*****Release date is Friday October 5, and reviews are embargoed until that date.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Frankenweenie”‘s premise sounds like the setup for an offbeat but potentially heartwarming tearjerker. A friendless boy whose dog is hit by a ca [...]

Tim Burton Reanimates his ‘Frankenweenie’ Classic

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 3, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features ANAHEIM, Calif.—Tim Burton has come a long way since he made his original “Frankenweenie,” short film about a boy named Victor who brings his dead dog back to life via a good jolt of electricity, an homage to Mary Shelley’s horror classic “Frankenstein” and the [...]

Anna Kendrick is Simply ‘Perfect’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 2, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Anna Kendrick got her start in musical theater, earning a Tony nomination at the tender age of 12 for her role as Dinah Lord in the 1997 Broadway musical production of “High Society.” One of her earliest film roles was playing a musical theater studen [...]

Kidman Delivers in Pulp-Fiction ‘Paperboy’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 2, 2012 |0

*****Release date is Friday October 5, and there is no embargo on when reviews can run.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/screenwriter Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy” is a 1960s-set film noir that’s a sweaty and sinister pleasure. Part mystery, part [...]

Winona Ryder: From ‘Beetlejuice’ to ‘Frankenweenie’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 1, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At 13, Winona Ryder landed a plum role in Tim Burton’s horror comedy “Beetlejuice.” Young and relatively new to Hollywood at the time, she didn’t recognize the filmmaker when they first met on the Warner Bros lot. She simply assumed the gangly fellow [...]