By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Don’t let the title fool you. Although the new feature-length documentary “Six by Sondheim” devotes special attention to a mere half-dozen of the acclaimed lyricist/composer’s songs, it also provides a fascinating look at Step [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Like its title character, a no-frills 1961 folk singer attempting to ply his trade in the era between clean-cut Kingston Trio conservatism and the defiant dominance of Dylan, “Inside Llewyn Davis” resides somewhere between sentimental ear [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Christian Bale and Casey Affleck play brothers struggling to survive in a dying Pennsylvania steel town, who face an even bigger threat when one of the siblings crosses a local crime boss (played by Woody Harrelson). Bale plays Russell Baze, a hardwor [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bruce Dern has been a workhorse character actor throughout his career, which has spanned five decades and more than 80 films as well as dozens of guest starring roles on TV. He’s primarily known for playing offbeat characters, heroic and villainous, a [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Calvin & Hobbes, a comic strip featuring an adventuresome and imaginative boy and his beloved toy tiger, began appearing in newspapers in 1985, and quickly became one of the most popular strips of all time. It ran only 10 years before its creator, [...]