By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—With a demanding career, a wife and two small children at home, illusionist/author/comedian Penn Jillette wasn’t looking add more to his plate when he embarked on a five-year documentary project about his friend Tim Jenison, a charismatic and tenaciou [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Having proved herself as a screenwriter with her much acclaimed 2012 romantic comedy “Ruby Sparks,” in which she co-starred with real life boyfriend Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan returns to the screen in a dual role in the dark comedy “The Pretty One.” The 30- [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Monuments Men” alternates between a bland bloodlessness that even a couple of cast-member killings can’t make moving and director/co-writer George Clooney’s usual brand of smirking self-satisfaction that trivializes the b [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As with his “Ocean’s” trilogy, “Leatherheads,” and “Good Night, and Good Luck,” George Clooney leads a band of misfits into what appears to be a hopeless, or at least a long shot situation, and manages to beat the odds in the self-directed “Monuments  [...]