*****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS REVIEW IS EMBARGOED FROM PUBLICATION UNTIL SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014.**** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is so picture-book pretty, smartly constructed and thoroughly enchanting that a brief stay there will leave visito [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When you marry an actor, you have to accept that your beloved likely will have to spend a lot of time smooching other people. For Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is married to fellow thespian Michael Douglas, that understanding came in handy when hubby rece [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director Joe Wright’s audaciously theatrical take on “Anna Karenina” turns what William Faulkner regarded as the best novel ever written into a flamboyantly Baz Luhrmann-esque “Moulin Russia.” Although there are no songs [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Martin Scorsese has Leonardo DiCaprio. Ridley Scott has Russell Crowe. Director Joe Wright’s go-to actor is the lovely and versatile Keira Knightley. The director first cast Knightley as the Jane Austen heroine Elizabeth Bennet in his 2005 drama “Prid [...]