By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The vulgar, violent and sometimes just plain vile “Killer Joe” is so irresistibly nasty it’s finger-lickin’ bad. And that’s good. A combination of white trash characters and vicious black humor puts this fitfully funny f [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—During the Golden Age of the miniseries—the late 1970s—TV viewers were transported back to the beginnings of America as seen through the eyes of a French-English immigrant in the mesmerizing melodramatic trilogy “The Kent Chronicles,” based on the pop [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles keeps a half-dozen or so plots spinning in “360,” an irresistibly engrossing collection of tales that range from trashy to tragic. From a pragmatic Eastern European prostitute to a ber [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Celeste & Jesse Forever” isn’t terribly good, but this awkward romance at least gets points for presenting an unusual premise. Silly and sickeningly sympatico soulmates Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) seem to b [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bryan Cranston’s portrayal of desperate drug lord Walter White in “Breaking Bad” has won him three consecutive Best Actor Emmys, and he is disturbingly believable as the murderous Chancellor Cohaagen in the new “Total RecallR [...]