By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—George Clooney plays a reclusive inventor who goes on an out-of-this world journey into the future with a teenager and a mysterious little girl in Disney’s “Tomorrowland.” Inspired in part by the Disney theme parks’ futuristic land of the same name, t [...]
By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Disney’s highly anticipated “Tommorrowland” Big Game Special look that debuted during the Super Bowl is now available online for viewing. The 30-second commercial give viewers a quick glimpse of the mystery adventure that brings a [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Monuments Men” alternates between a bland bloodlessness that even a couple of cast-member killings can’t make moving and director/co-writer George Clooney’s usual brand of smirking self-satisfaction that trivializes the b [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As with his “Ocean’s” trilogy, “Leatherheads,” and “Good Night, and Good Luck,” George Clooney leads a band of misfits into what appears to be a hopeless, or at least a long shot situation, and manages to beat the odds in the self-directed “Monuments [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In preparation for her role in “Gravity,” in which she plays a scientist on a space mission that goes awry, Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side”) believed she needed to speak to someone who actually had been in space and had experienc [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The SF thriller “Gravity” basically consists of several elaborate special effects scenes strung together by a bare-minimum plot, but this astronauts-in-peril adventure looks so good it sets a stratospheric new visual standard for the genr [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ben Affleck has gone from leading man to a respected filmmaker the past decade or so. With the success of 2007’s “Gone Baby Gone” and 2010’s “The Town” under his belt, Affleck now tackles a historic drama involving a daring rescue in “Argo.” The 40-ye [...]