By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Prior to making her fourth feature film, British born Andrea Arnold spent several years crisscrossing the U.S., compiling details she would use to make “American Honey.” On the road, with Rihanna tunes blasting on the car’s stereo, Arnold took in the [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director Tim Burton returns to fantastic form with the imaginative and appealing “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.” It’s a more fabulous—as in “fable-like”—version of the Marvel Comics X-Men movies, but [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features A tale as old as time gets the silver anniversary treatment, as “Beauty and the Beast” joins “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” on home video as part of the new Walt Disney Signature Collection. An animated movie that captivates viewers just as much today as it d [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Nature gets gangster in the acclaimed comedy “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” debuting on DVD Tuesday Sept. 27, from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Taika Waititi (“What We Do in the Shadows,” upcoming “Thor: Ragnar [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic Remaking a Hollywood classic like “The Magnificent Seven”—even if the 1960 Steve McQueen film is an adaptation of the 1954 Japanese epic “Seven Samurai” itself—is no easy task. While some find that MGM and Columbia Pictures’ star-studded attempt isn’ [...]