By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Tilda Swinton is one of those people whose mere presence in a room commands attention. That magnetic characteristic is only further enhanced with the arrival of the unconventional and enigmatic actress for an interview in a very futuristic-looking bri [...]
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 [...]