By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winners Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway co-star as space explorers hoping to find a suitable planet for mankind after Earth has been ecologically damaged in Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi action drama “Interstellar.” McConaughey won an Oscar t [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bloated with self-importance, slathered with sappy sentimentality and saddled with an eye-rollingly unsatisfying ending, “Interstellar” is a tiresomely tedious trek that reaches for the stars but misses by light years. Clocking in at near [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Unlikely heroes are at the heart of two new family-friendly home video releases. New on Blu-ray and DVD is “Rio 2,” the worthy recent follow up to the hit 2011 animated comedy about two rare blue macaws from different worlds that find true love. Jesse Eisenb [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Blu, Jewel, Nigel, Gabi, Luiz, Linda and Tulio are back in “Rio 2,” the highly anticipated sequel to the hit 2011 samba-flavored animated comedy adventure about two rare blue macaws from different worlds that find true love. Jesse Eisenberg (“The Soci [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Les Misérables” is the kind of bloated, cornball and sappy spectacle that makes people say they hate movie musicals. Most of the melodies (by Claude-Michel Shönberg) are unmemorable, most of the lyrics (by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Nat [...]