By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic More of an IMAX-spectacular technical feat than a traditional movie, “Dunkirk” plays like an assemblage of elaborate second-unit footage for a film that should have included more story for those scenes to enhance. Most of the admittedly i [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA MONICA, Calif.—As a schoolboy, Christopher Nolan learned the history of the 1940 evacuation of stranded Allied troops from Dunkirk. It wasn’t until decades later, though, when the British filmmaker and his wife/producer Emma Thomas boarded a small sailing [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The reigning monarch of Candy Kingdom, Princess Bubblegum, is getting her very own personalized DVD cover with the release of Cartoon Network’s “Adventure Time: The Complete Seventh Season,” available in stores Tuesday July 18. The release features 25 animated [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA MONICA, Calif.—The inside of an airplane hangar provides the perfect backdrop for a press junket to promote the new World War II drama “Dunkirk.” Dressed with vintage aircraft, guns and uniforms, the gloomy French beach projected onto a back wall, it also [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Forget about waiting to catch this dazzlingly spectacular SF-adventure at home. As its fittingly grandiose title implies, “Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets” contains so many awesome wonders to behold that it deserves to be view [...]