By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Classic literature goes to candyland in this crazily colorful fever-dream fantasy version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel. Director Baz Luhrmann has transformed the author’s noirishly bitter jazz-age period piece into a brazenly bizar [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—On February 27, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of central Chile. It was 3:34 a.m. Up and coming Chilean director Nicolas Lopez was at home in bed. Actress Lorenza Izzo was at a club in Valparaiso, a little buzzed from a night o [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter After a lackluster performance in theaters last fall, “The Oranges” is rolling out on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, May 7. The problem with this so-called comedy that is so unappealing and flavorless it should have stayed on the shelf. What’s supposed to [...]
By Peterson Gonzaga Front Row Features Wire Hollywood – The week before, there was a sigh of relief from the Top 4 contestants of “American Idol” as all four were safe from elimination. This week was a different story as one more would leave the “American Idol” stage leave three standing to head [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Joining Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and the rest of the returning cast for the third installment of the box-office juggernaut “Iron Man” franchise, based on the Marvel comic book, are native Brits Guy Pearce and Rebecca Hall. Pearc [...]