By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Thirty-two years after their last outing as Han Solo and Princess Leia, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher reprise their iconic roles in the long-anticipated sequel “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The duo’s onscreen courtship captured the hearts of fans [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—British actress Gwendoline Christie is a towering and fearsome figure in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” She plays the Captain Phasma, the commander of the First Order Stormtroopers, in service to Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), as they search for clues to Lu [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The oddest thing about director/writer Quentin Tarantino’s wild and wicked new western “The Hateful Eight” is how unnecessary all of its lily-gilding aspects are. It’s a dialog-driven, amusingly tongue-in-cheek and sometimes i [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features “Sisters” provides a great blend of family drama, raunchy, but still funny physical humor and creative verbal barbs delivered with their usual chemistry by talented duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. When 30-something Ellis sisters Kate (Tina Fey) and Maura (Amy Poehl [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic As Han Solo himself puts it in the everything-old-is-wonderfully-new-again “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “The girl knows her stuff.” The female in question is new character Rey, a desert-planet salvage trader turned resistan [...]