****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 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Time will tell whether Clint Eastwood will be remembered for his phenomenal acting and filmmaking career or his bizarre improvised discussion with an empty chair representing President Obama at the 2012 GOP convention in Tampa. Or both. In the meantim [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The personal and powerful “End of Watch” is stylish enough to outclass most cops-on-the-beat dramas thanks to its imaginative direction and clever camerawork. But what makes the movie a must-see is the unexpected humanity of its out of th [...]