By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kit Harington has played swashbuckler Jon Snow, the illegitimate son of Lord Ned Stark (played by Sean Bean) on HBO’s “Game of Thrones” for five seasons. The 28-year-old Londoner has been known to make girls’ hearts go aflutter both on screen and off. [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Screenwriter Alex Garland (“28 Days Later,” “The Beach”) makes his feature film directorial debut with the sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina,” starring Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson and Alicia Vikander. A reclusive Internet zillionai [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic A reclusive Internet zillionaire with a God complex creates an alluring android whose self-awareness makes her tragically soulful in this interesting if not completely convincing SF morality tale. 2013’s “Her,” about a sentient comp [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Nikolaj Arcel is on top of the world. Well, at least very close to it. The Danish director got the news Thursday of his Oscar nomination for his period drama “A Royal Affair” while visiting friends in Los Angeles. The film is among five foreign langua [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Every Danish schoolboy knows the story of the 18th century mad monarch Christian VII, his British-born queen Caroline and a court physician named Johann Struensee, who helped bring about social reforms in that small European country before getting cau [...]