By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic A well-chosen cast led by Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and the late James Gandolfini makes this understated and satisfyingly suspenseful film noir drama a great adult alternative to the rom-com retreads and live-action cartoons that litter most multiplexe [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features TORONTO—From Elaine to Christine to Selena, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has filled the small screen with iconic funny characters for the past two decades that will be making generations laugh for years to come. The former “Seinfeld” star now plays a somewhat more serio [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The endearingly adorable Julia Louis-Dreyfus appears in and steals every scene in the sweet second-time-around romantic comedy “Enough Said.” As single-mom masseuse Eva, she begins a tentative but hopeful relationship with an unassuming d [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In an industry full of troubled young actresses like Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes, Saoirse Ronan is an exception. The Dublin-born teen does all of her acting out onscreen. She’s played a trained killer in “Hanna” and reputation-ruining little liar i [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/writer David Chase’s affectionate ode to a fictional 1960s garage band is the first thing the creator of HBO’s “The Sopranos” has done since that landmark series went off the air five years ago. A teen-centered coming [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bafflingly chosen as 2012’s best picture by some critics, the adequate but unexceptional “Zero Dark Thirty” is one of three wildly overpraised Oscar frontrunners this year. Like “Argo” and “Silver Linings Playbook, [...]