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‘Botero,’ ‘Claudine,’ ‘District 9,’ ‘Grant,’ More Available on Home Entertainment This Week

News TV Features By Angela Dawson|9 days ago |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Movies A Regular Woman Based on a contentious, real-life “honor killing” in 2005 that shocked Germany, Sherry Hormann’s “A Regular Woman” arrives on DVD/Digital Tuesday Oct. 13, from Corinth Films. The crime drama offers a novel and captivatin [...]

Disney+ Launches Nat Geo Space Series ‘The Right Stuff’

News TV Features By Angela Dawson|12 days ago |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It seems TV viewers can’t get enough of space adventures. Perhaps it’s because so many of us have been stuck on the ground for months due to the global health pandemic. We’ve been able to escape for a little while watching exciting cosmic adventures i [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Filipino-American Experience Explored in Diane Paragas’ Music-Filled ‘Yellow Rose’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|15 days ago |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—October is Filipino-American History Month so what better way to celebrate this rich culture than to enjoy a heartwarming film about a young Filipino-American pursuing her American dream. “Yellow Rose,” arriving in theaters in North America Friday Oct [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse TV Chief Talks Slate of Films for Welcome to the Blumhouse Rolling Out this Week

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|16 days ago |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Amazon Prime Video’s “Welcome to the Blumhouse,” a program of eight unsettling, genre movies produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, premieres this week with “Black Box” and “The Lie,” scheduled for ex [...]

EXCLUSIVE: John Scheinfeld Doc Trumpets Accomplishments of Renaissance Man Herb Alpert

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|22 days ago |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Documentary filmmaker John Scheinfeld has made many documentaries over the years, many of which have centered on iconoclast artists including John Lennon (“The U.S. vs. John Lennon”), John Coltrane (Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary”), Harr [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Will Wernick Takes Viewers on Another Escape Room Journey with an International Twist

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 16, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror filmmaker Will Wernick recalls visiting his first escape room The Basement in northern Los Angeles in advance of making his 2017 film “Escape Room.” He has since visited 20 of these experiential game locations in which teams move through a buil [...]

Dev Patel Plays Title Role in Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 25, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar nominee and Emmy winning writer/director Armando Iannucci (“In the Loop,” HBO’s “Veep”) knew just who he wanted to cast as the titular character in his adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield,” after watching Dev Patel’s performance in [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Philip Winchester Goes ‘Rogue’ in in New Action Thriller

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 24, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—For five seasons, Philip Winchester played Sergeant Michael Stonebridge, a skilled operative in a covert counterterrorism group on the Sky/Cinemax series “Strike Back.” He took that role very seriously, undertaking physical and mental training with ac [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Horrormeister Aaron B. Koontz Knocks Out Cowboys vs. Witches Mashup with ‘The Pale Door’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 18, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror filmmaker Aaron B. Koontz recalls as a child having a coloring book filled with forest animals but instead of using the greens and browns and other colors of the woods and staying inside the lines, he instead would transport the animals in to s [...]

‘Words’ Matter in Teen Drama Starring Charlie Plummer

Features Film Features By Lynn Barker|August 17, 2020 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Contributor In “Words on Bathroom Walls,” based on Julia Walton’s YA novel, the lead character Adam Petrazelli gets expelled from his high school, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and dreams of becoming a chef. At a new school, he connects with Maya, who inspires [...]