By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At 15, Claire Danes starred as Angela Chase on the TV drama “My So-Called Life.” The ABC network series only ran 19 episodes, but became a cult favorite. Danes went on to embody such diverse characters as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Ju [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Although calling it dreadful would be too-easy overkill, “Dredd” is surprisingly dreary for a comic-book action flick. Set almost entirely in a massive 200-story concrete slum, the movie plays like a violent but not terribly involving vid [...]
By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It was long road for the final four contestants of Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 9 as they danced their hearts away to await that final announcement of the winning male and female contestants. This season was the first [...]
****NOTE TO EDITORS: THE DVD/BLU-RAY OF “MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR” WILL BE AVAILABLE ON OCTOBER 9, 2012.**** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Critic Amateurish, ad-libbed and often outright awful, the Beatles’ 1967 TV special “Magical Mystery Tour” is the equivalent of [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s never easy to be nasty to film icon Clint Eastwood, but Matthew Lillard had the pressure of having to do it in just one take. Best known for his roles in “Scream” and the “Scooby-Doo” franchise, Lillard plays the upstart heavy in “Trouble with th [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Clint Eastwood is back in grumpy old “Gran Torino” mode as a cigar-chomping baseball scout who is losing his eyesight in the strictly minor league “Trouble With the Curve.” Never an actor with much depth, the chair-chastising [...]