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 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ezra Miller, who played the sociopathic title character in last year’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” is nothing like that and other dark troubled youths he has played in his brief but productive career. In fact, when he calls an hour late by phone fr [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Growing up in the Los Angeles suburbs, America Ferrera and her large family lived far away from the crime-infested wretchedness of the inner city. Yet the petite Latina was keenly aware of the racial tensions that existed in the City of Angels. Though [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” is brilliant, beautiful, often unsettling and emotionally devastating. Forget the media shorthand that shortchanges the film by describing it as a fictionalized biography of Scient [...]
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Billy Burke has been acting since 1990, and has appeared in a plethora of TV shows such as “Rizzoli & Isles,” “The Closer” and “24,” and movies like “Ladder 49,” “Fracture” and as Charlie Swan, B [...]