By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” Tom Cruise’s fifth outing as secret agent Ethan Hunt, is so much frantic, fast-paced fun that it’s impossible to resist. Cruise plays the even-death-can’t-stop-him Ethan [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Edge of Tomorrow,” an inventively clever mashup of “Starship Troopers” and “Groundhog Day,” is a just about perfect sci-fi adventure and a real showcase for stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Cruise is Major Willia [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Oblivion,” the second film by “TRON: Legacy” director Joseph Kosinski, offers a stylishly imaginative mix of science-fiction action, psychological suspense and grown-up romance. The plot has a few holes, and the movie’s [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Olga Kurylenko is becoming the go-to actress for Hollywood action movies. The statuesque Ukraine-born brunette starred opposite Daniel Craig in 2008’s “Quantum of Solace,” holding her own against the James Bond star as a woman focused on avenging the [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Although Morgan Freeman and Tom Cruise have headlined Hollywood films for decades, the two prolific actors never appeared onscreen together until this year. (Freeman narrated the 2005 Cruise starrer “War of the Worlds,” but the two did not interact in [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Rosamund Pike co-stars with Tom Cruise in the action thriller “Jack Reacher,” based on the popular Lee Child book series. Pike unknowingly was pregnant during filming, which created a bit of a challenge for both the British actress and the wardrobe de [...]