By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—For Travis Knight, President and CEO of Laika Studios, “Kubo and the Two Strings” is a film that brings back his childhood memory of being in awe of Japan as an eight-year-old tourist from Portland, Ore., when he visited the inspiring country. Alon [...]
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 [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bloated with self-importance, slathered with sappy sentimentality and saddled with an eye-rollingly unsatisfying ending, “Interstellar” is a tiresomely tedious trek that reaches for the stars but misses by light years. Clocking in at near [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Matthew McConaughey discovered a side benefit to shedding 30 pounds to play a role as an AIDS patient for the movie “Dallas Buyers Club.” “They say we only use 10 percent or our brain so there’s a 90 percent well of reserve that we haven’t even [...]
*****Release date is Friday October 5, and there is no embargo on when reviews can run.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/screenwriter Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy” is a 1960s-set film noir that’s a sweaty and sinister pleasure. Part mystery, part [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The vulgar, violent and sometimes just plain vile “Killer Joe” is so irresistibly nasty it’s finger-lickin’ bad. And that’s good. A combination of white trash characters and vicious black humor puts this fitfully funny f [...]