By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Will Smith is best known for his music (as the Fresh Prince) as well as his comedy and action hero roles. But the world-renowned performer has demonstrated on several occasions that he is also adept at delivering powerful performances in dramatic role [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic One of the year’s most highly anticipated films, Warner Bros.’ “Suicide Squad” is finally in theaters. Picking up after the downright dreadful “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” writer-director David Ayer’s (“Fury”) DC Comics adaptation follows a [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—“Suicide Squad” brings a lot of A-list actors together to play hardened criminals that are recruited by a high-ranking government intelligence officer to embark on a dangerous mission. If they comply, they get time off their lengthy sentences; if they [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic It’s not just bad. It’s “Howard the Duck” bad, an embarrassingly overbaked abomination that’s what the enjoyably irreverent farce “Deadpool” may have been like if that movie had done absolutely everything wrong. It’s also at least four-in-a-row bad f [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—“Independence Day: Resurgence” rising star Jessie T. Usher, after a stellar academic career, made his mark on entertainment with television roles in “Survivor’s Remorse” and “Level Up” before starring in the family feature film “When the Game St [...]