By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Filmmaker Woody Allen was determined to have Colin Firth star in his ‘20s-set romantic comedy “Magic in the Moonlight,” even though the Oscar-winner was unavailable because he already was committed to do another project. Perhaps the Wood-man conjured [...]
****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS FILM OPENS AUGUST 22 BUT THERE IS NO EMBARGO.**** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The irresistibly odd “Frank” is an unexpectedly endearing but sometimes dark character study revolving around an eccentric avant garde musician who constantly wea [...]
*****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS REVIEW IS EMBARGOED FROM PUBLICATION UNTIL FRIDAY, AUGUST 1.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Guardians of the Galaxy” is the movie that non-fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” worried “The Avengers” would turn out [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kelly Noonan is an up and coming actress who is athletic, beautiful, smart (she graduated from magna cum laude from UCLA) and full of energy. She’s also full of surprises. Reached by phone on a recent weekday afternoon, she reveals she is on her way t [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Who knew? Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas make a cute couple. The Oscar winners’ first film together, Rob Reiner’s “And So It Goes,” sadly, is sweet but rambling as they play a couple struggling to move past lives as widow and widower, and put a romantic s [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Unlikely heroes are at the heart of two new family-friendly home video releases. New on Blu-ray and DVD is “Rio 2,” the worthy recent follow up to the hit 2011 animated comedy about two rare blue macaws from different worlds that find true love. Jesse Eisenb [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In his post “Lord of the Rings” career, Elijah Wood has occupied himself mostly by making quirky independent films and, for the past four years, starring in an offbeat cable comedy TV series called “Wilfred.” Now, in its fourth and final season, “Wilf [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON and JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Former “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe revealed Tuesday that he has not read J.K. Rowling’s new story involving an older version of the wizard he played in eight films, but he intends to do so soon. Speaking via satellite from New [...]