By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” Dame Helen Mirren plays the snooty proprietress of a Michelin-starred restaurant in a quaint French village. The imperious widow’s calculable world is turned upside when an Indian family moves in across the street and op [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The miraculously good “Calvary,” about a steadfastly moral Irish priest (Brendan Gleeson) who is threatened by a bitter molestation victim that he will be murdered in exactly one week, manages to be both a genuinely moving religious alleg [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—“Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn can’t say enough nice things about Benicio Del Toro, who plays Taneleer Tivan a.k.a. The Collector, one of the bizarre characters five superheroes, led by a human named Peter Quill, encounter during their  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Benjamin Arthur plays the unlikely family scion in NBC’s new summer comedy “Working the Engels.” As Jimmy Engel, he is a petty criminal and perennial bad boy. Nevertheless, he’s completely committed to his family, and when called upon to help out with [...]