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Nostalgic Steven Spielberg Mines Pop Culture for ‘Ready Player One’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 26, 2018 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Steven Spielberg digs deep into pop culture over the past four decades in his new action adventure “Ready Player One,” somehow managing to sidestep his many contributions in this icon-check visual feast of a film. He says during a press conference pro [...]

Photos: EXCLUSIVE: ‘Darkest Hour’ Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel Talks Recreating Wartime Britain

Film Features Photos Photo Gallery By Peter Gonzaga|December 21, 2017 |0

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Photos: EXCLUSIVE: Theater Vet Benedict Andrews Makes Film Directorial Debut with ‘Una’

Film Features Photos Photo Gallery By Angela Dawson|October 14, 2017 |0

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EXCLUSIVE: Theater Vet Benedict Andrews Makes Film Directorial Debut with ‘Una’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 14, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s not often that a director has an opportunity to revisit a work in a different medium but that is just what has happened with Benedict Andrews, a veteran theater director who has brought the provocative play “Blackbird” to the big screen as his de [...]

‘Rogue One’ Is Serviceable Space Junk

Film Reviews News Reviews By James Dawson|December 13, 2016 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic While it probably will satisfy the minimum requirements of “Star Wars” franchise fans, so much of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” is dull, dumb and (literally) dark that it often seems depressingly desperate. Oddly, many of the [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Director Kevin Macdonald Talks on ‘Black Sea’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|January 20, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s an atypical cold and rainy day here in Southern California but the dreary conditions seem to be the appropriate setting for an interview with Scottish director Kevin Macdonald, who is in town promoting his new underwater thriller, “Black Sea.” In [...]