By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Filmmaker Evan Jackson Leong grew up in the Bay area. An Asian-American, he enjoyed watching basketball, but there were no NBA players that looked like him. When he started hearing about an up and coming Asian-American on Harvard’s basketball team a f [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—British actor Steve Coogan is best known for his biting sense of humor. But having grown up in the Catholic faith (his family hails from Ireland), he has experienced disillusionment with his faith over the years and no longer considers himself a practi [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kenneth Branagh is near the end of a long day of interviews talking up his new movie “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” but the veteran thespian and filmmaker has no complaints. “This is such a tiny moment and such a narrow window of opportunity to have an [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Teen actress Chloe Grace Moretz stars in Kimberly Peirce’s reimagined horror drama “Carrie,” now available on Blu-ray and DVD. Based on the classic Stephen King horror novel, which was previously made into a 1976 feature film starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Lau [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Vin Diesel reprises the role of Richard Riddick, a dangerous escaped convict wanted by every bounty hunter in the known galaxy in “Riddick,” now available on DVD and Blu-ray Combo Pack. This third installment of the popular sci-fi franchise picks up with Riddic [...]