By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Like the woman she depicts in the screen adaptation of bestselling memoir “Same Kind of Different as Me,” Renee Zellweger realized several years ago she needed to make some big changes in her life if she was going to live it fulfilled. The Oscar winni [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features An innocent night of fun turns into a cruel game for survival when “Escape Room” arrives on DVD, Digital HD and On Demand Tuesday Oct. 17 from Lionsgate. The claustrophobic thriller filled to the brim with inventive terror stars Evan Williams (“Awkward,” “Degra [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s not often that a director has an opportunity to revisit a work in a different medium but that is just what has happened with Benedict Andrews, a veteran theater director who has brought the provocative play “Blackbird” to the big screen as his de [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic Chadwick Boseman has a history of starring in biopics that are entertaining but not exactly stellar. While his performances in the Jackie Robinson story “42” and the James Brown feature “Get on Up” were noteworthy, the films themselves were ultimatel [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As she did three decades ago in “Titanic,” Oscar winning actress Kate Winslet (“The Reader”) plays a character that once again is immersed in freezing cold water, clinging to life, hopeful of a rescue. Only this time, in “The Mountain Between Us,” her [...]