By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—2017 is becoming quite the year for Hong Chau. The daughter of refugees who fled war-torn Vietnam for the U.S. in the late 1970s, is now the female star of two-time Oscar winning filmmaker Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing.” In it, she plays a Vietnamese [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The premise of director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson helming a tastefully sophisticated semi-gothic romance about a dictatorial dress designer in mid-1950s Britain sounds unlikely enough to be the followup to “Saturday Night Live’s” [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Studios generally screen their films for film journalists prior to press junkets so that journalists can come up with relevant questions for the actors and filmmakers. Such was not the case with Disney/LucasFilm’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” which lef [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Back in the days of the early “Star Wars” films, there were the good guys (Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia) and a really really bad guy (Darth Vader). In the new chapters of this now iconic sci-fi franchise entering its fifth decade, good a [...]