By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Todd Phillips may be best known for wacky comedies (“The Hangover” trilogy, “Old School,” “Road Trip”), but the writer-director gets a little more serious with his latest feature film, “War Dogs,” now available on DVD (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, MSRP: $28. [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Dwayne Johnson gives voice to a demigod named Maui in Disney’s colorful tropical animated adventure “Moana.” The professional wrestler turned action and comedy star spent part of his youth in Hawaii and is Polynesian on his mother’s side. He say [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—This holiday season, prepare for a French treat that is actress Isabelle Huppert. She appears in two French-language films, “Elle” and “Things to Come,” playing two very different women whose lives are in transition. In “Elle,” [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Marion Cotillard looks smashing in a bright blue dress with colorful accents designed by former pop star Victoria Beckham as she arrives for a press conference. The French actress has the ethereal glow of pregnancy (her second). Having discounted vici [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic When a talented baker is informed by a dismissive banker in “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” that “there are machines now that can produce hundreds of donuts in an hour,” he confidently replies, “They’re n [...]