By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic A reclusive Internet zillionaire with a God complex creates an alluring android whose self-awareness makes her tragically soulful in this interesting if not completely convincing SF morality tale. 2013’s “Her,” about a sentient comp [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON and JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—They say all good things must come to an end, and so it is with AMC’s award-winning drama series “Mad Men,” which began airing the last seven episodes of the seventh—and final—season last Sunday night. The brainchild of writer-director [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Few film documentaries tell the story of documentary filmmakers. The story of Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, British filmmakers who in the Swingin’ Sixties approached an up-and-coming band called The High Numbers (which became The Who) to illustrate the [...]
*** EDITORS: PLEASE NOTE EXPLETIVE “BAD ASSES” IS IN THE TITLE OF THE SECOND RELEASE. YOU MAY WANT TO CENSOR IT FOR YOUR READERS.*** By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Everyone’s favorite uncle and grandpa is back on DVD—and this time, he’s spreading his catch phrase around in the al [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Simon Pegg is known for playing lovable reluctant antiheroes like the titular zombie killer in “Shaun of the Dead,” starship engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in the rebooted “Star Trek” franchise and helpful techie Benji in the “Mission: Impossible” [...]