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Motormouth ‘Miss Sloane’ Misses Mark

Film Reviews Reviews By James Dawson|November 21, 2016 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Miss Sloane” is not only an irritatingly simplistic movie that thinks it’s smart, but one that takes place in some strange alternate reality where politicians have shame, lobbyists have consciences and a hunky hooker has a heart of [...]

Photos: Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt Get the Royal Treatment in ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’

Film Features Photos Photo Gallery By Angela Dawson|April 19, 2016 |0

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Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt Get the Royal Treatment in ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 19, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Though the prequel to 2012 “Snow White & the Huntsman” is called “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,” the more compelling storyline of the action adventure is one of sibling rivalry between evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron resurrecting the role) and h [...]

Photos: Matt Damon Delivers as ‘The Martian’

Photo Gallery Review Photos By James Dawson|September 22, 2015 |0

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Matt Damon Delivers as ‘The Martian’

Film Reviews Reviews By James Dawson|September 22, 2015 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Never fully committing either to high-emotion melodrama or the cold equations of a grim techno-thriller, “The Martian” adequately straddles both genres thanks to the likeability of star Matt Damon as an impressively improvising astronaut. [...]

Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway Talk ‘Interstellar’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 4, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winners Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway co-star as space explorers hoping to find a suitable planet for mankind after Earth has been ecologically damaged in Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi action drama “Interstellar.” McConaughey won an Oscar t [...]

‘Mama’ Delivers Family-Style Chills

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|January 17, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Jessica Chastain shines in this contemporary classic ghost story as a reluctant stand-in mother who has a violently possessive rival from the afterlife. The charm of this family-in-peril piece is its elegant simplicity, with a small cast that plays t [...]

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Is Adequate But Overhyped

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|December 19, 2012 |0

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, [...]

Kathryn Bigelow’s Next Tour of Duty with ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 19, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kathryn Bigelow is in an elite category. She is the first woman to win an Academy Award for directing a feature film—that film being 2008’s war drama “The Hurt Locker.” (She also picked up a statue for producing that film.) Bigelow reteams with [...]

Hardy Shines as ‘Lawless’ Bootlegger

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|August 24, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Dark Knight Rises” costars Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman never appear onscreen together in “Lawless,” Oldman shows up in only three scenes of the Prohibition-era drama and their characters couldn’t be more different. Bu [...]