By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A native Angeleno, Jake Gyllenhaal is familiar with the unique topography of the City of Angels and its mysterious quality at night. When screenwriter Dan Gilroy (“The Fall,” “Real Steel”) approached him about playing the lead in his first directed fi [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bloated with self-importance, slathered with sappy sentimentality and saddled with an eye-rollingly unsatisfying ending, “Interstellar” is a tiresomely tedious trek that reaches for the stars but misses by light years. Clocking in at near [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Alfie Allen, who plays Theon Greyjoy on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” plays the leader of a gang of young white collar criminals who con their way inside the luxurious life of other people’s money in “Plastic,” available Tuesday, Oct. 28 on DVD. When these small tim [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Australian actor Joel Edgerton did a lot of writing on his first produced crime thriller screenplay “Felony,” while shooting the action drama “Zero Dark Thirty.” He would shoot his scenes as the leader of a Navy SEALs team sent on a mission to kill 9/ [...]