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A Stripped-Down Jennifer Aniston in ‘Millers’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 5, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON NEW YORK—Biologically, Jennifer Aniston is 44 but you’d never guess it from watching her play a smokin’ hot stripper who joins a drug dealer’s clandestine plot to pose as a normal family on vacation in Mexico to smuggle drugs across the border. The former “Friends” star recently [...]

A ‘Spectacular’ Follow Up for Shailene Woodley

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 31, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After a star-making turn playing George Clooney’s surly daughter in “The Descendants,” Shailene Woodley delivers another noteworthy performance as a teenage “nice girl” who befriends a charming but troubled classmate in “The Spectacular Now.” The dram [...]

Logan Lerman Sets Course for ‘Sea’ Adventure

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 30, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Logan Lerman reprises his role as a teenage demigod in the action-packed “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” a sequel to 2010’s “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” The films are based on Rick Riordan’s popular young adult fantasy b [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Cyclops Takes it in the Eye in ‘2 Guns’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 30, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actor James Marsden is calling from the driveway of his Los Angeles home because the cell phone reception inside his house is pretty lousy. Though it’s a scorching 100-degree day, Marsden assures he is “comfy” and not to worry. Marsden, of course, is [...]

Cate Blanchett in Full Bloom as Woody Allen’s ‘Jasmine’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 27, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett (“The Aviator”) plays a former New York socialite who has fallen on hard times in Woody Allen’s dramedy “Blue Jasmine.” The juicy role, in which the Australian actress plays the title character Jasmine Fren [...]

‘Drive’ Filmmaker Sets a Course for Bangkok in ‘Only God Forgives’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 24, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn reconnects with his “Drive” team Ryan Gosling and musician Cliff Martinez on “Only God Forgives,” a dark drama that takes place in Thailand. Refn says he always had wanted to make a martial arts film, but thought [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Wes Bentley Brushes Up in ‘Time Being’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 24, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Like most parents, artists often have to make sacrifices in their careers for the sake of their children. That means sometimes taking a job you wouldn’t otherwise do simply because it pays the bills. That is the premise of “The Time Being,” a little i [...]

Aubrey Plaza Hits the A ‘List’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2013 |0

(NOTE TO EDITORS: EXPLICIT TERMS HAVE BEEN ASTERISKED. HOWEVER, THE WORD “MASTERBATION” APPEARS BELOW BUT CAN BE REMOVED AT YOUR DISCRETION.) By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—How often do you get a chance to go through someone’s diary—and get paid to do it? Aubrey Plaza, [...]

‘Being John Malkovich’ and other Meta Movies

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 16, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—With the release of the raunchy sci-fi comedy, “This Is the End,” in which actors Jonah Hill, James Franco, Michael Cera, Emma Watson, singer Rihanna and other popular performers play fictional versions of themselves, it made me thi [...]

Mirren Reprises Assassin Role in ‘RED 2’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 14, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—In a summer of superheroes, even the queen is getting in on the action. Dame Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar (and just about every other acting award) for her humanizing depiction of Queen Elizabeth II few years ago reprises her comic book character rol [...]