By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The unexpectedly allegorical and eventually overwhelming “Mother!” is a bizarre hybrid of nightmarish surrealism, sly social satire, psychological terror and cellar-dark humor. It’s basically a two-hour art-horror version of the cla [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Brenton Thwaites and Kaya Scodelario infuse fresh blood into the longrunning “Pirates of the Caribbean” swashbuckling franchise. In “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” Thwaites plays Henry Turner, son of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—“Pirates of the Caribbean” has become a family tradition at the Bardem household. In 2011, Penelope Cruz played Captain Jack Sparrow’s sparring partner/love interest in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.” Now her husband, Oscar winner Javie [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Daniel Craig arrives for a press conference looking almost intimidatingly dapper in a dark suit, gray shirt and matching tie. He’s all smiles and seems absolutely jazzed. And why shouldn’t he be? His latest outing as secret agent James Bond in the Sam [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Skyfall,” Daniel Craig’s thrilling third outing as British secret agent James Bond, is so impressively on-target it ranks as one of the best installments of the 50-year, 23-film franchise. Mixing high-energy action, a sense of resp [...]