By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic More of an IMAX-spectacular technical feat than a traditional movie, “Dunkirk” plays like an assemblage of elaborate second-unit footage for a film that should have included more story for those scenes to enhance. Most of the admittedly i [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA MONICA, Calif.—As a schoolboy, Christopher Nolan learned the history of the 1940 evacuation of stranded Allied troops from Dunkirk. It wasn’t until decades later, though, when the British filmmaker and his wife/producer Emma Thomas boarded a small sailing [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA MONICA, Calif.—The inside of an airplane hangar provides the perfect backdrop for a press junket to promote the new World War II drama “Dunkirk.” Dressed with vintage aircraft, guns and uniforms, the gloomy French beach projected onto a back wall, it also [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Like so many British invasions before them, pop phenom One Direction has arrived on the shores of the colonies. If you had any doubt, just consider the five-member boy band already has a documentary titled simply “One Direction: This is Us,” that char [...]