By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features It’s April, so that means you’d be a fool to miss the wide range of theatrical films making their way to home video. Sally Field delivered an Oscar-winning performance in the 1979 drama “Norma Rae,” playing a Southern mill worker who revolutionizes a small town [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The main problem with “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” isn’t that this sequel to 2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger” misguidedly shifts the costumed comic-book superhero into high-body-count political [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It may seem a tad ironic that the main American hero of a new AMC drama about the first colonial spy ring during the Revolutionary War is played by a Brit. Jamie Bell, best known as the aspiring young ballet dancer in “Billy Elliot,” stars as Abe Wood [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The sequel to director-writer Lars von Trier’s explicit and excellent “Nymphomaniac Vol. I” is a darker and sadder walk on the wild side, but one with so many interesting things to say about human sexuality that it’s another m [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When it comes to voiceover narration, no actor comes as close to evoking just the right mix of authority, folksiness, clarity and intelligence than Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman. Indeed, the Memphis, Tenn. native’s acting career began four decad [...]