By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bradley Cooper may not be the first person you think of when casting a mentally unstable and emotionally vulnerable individual forced to move in with his elderly parents (played by Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver) after completing a court-ordered inst [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Isla Fisher is best known for her memorable performance as Vince Vaughn’s wacky love interest in “The Wedding Crashers.” She has starred in several other adult-oriented comedies such as “Bachelorette,” “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” “Definitely, Maybe [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director Joe Wright’s audaciously theatrical take on “Anna Karenina” turns what William Faulkner regarded as the best novel ever written into a flamboyantly Baz Luhrmann-esque “Moulin Russia.” Although there are no songs [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the sci-fi thriller “Citadel,” a young widower has to protect his baby from would-be predators that roam his housing project. You’d think he’d simply run away, but Tommy Cowley (played by Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard) is agoraphobic, so he’s trapped [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Martin Scorsese has Leonardo DiCaprio. Ridley Scott has Russell Crowe. Director Joe Wright’s go-to actor is the lovely and versatile Keira Knightley. The director first cast Knightley as the Jane Austen heroine Elizabeth Bennet in his 2005 drama “Prid [...]