By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In a climactic scene in the Jimi Hendrix biopic “Jimi: All Is By My Side,” the talented guitarist (played by Outkast’s Andre Benjamin), on the cusp of fame in June of 1967, opens a show at London’s Seville Theatre with a rendition of the Beatles “Sgt. [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Freddie Prinze Jr., who gives voice to space cowboy Kanan Jarrus in the new “Star Wars Rebels” animated TV series told co-star Tiya Sircar, who voices warrior firebrand Sabine Wren, that while his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar’s TV series “Buffy the Vamp [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon (“Walk the Line”) has the kind of clout that can get a Hollywood studio to foot the bill to fly in film reporters from around the country here to Music City to speak to her about “The Good Lie,” an eye-opening dra [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Audiences know Jon Favreau these days as the director of big budget blockbusters like the “Iron Man “ franchise and “Elf,” but he also is a pretty good actor. In “Chef,” arriving on DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday, he plays a disenchanted master chef who reignites h [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Film Critic Amid the staple-gunning, eye-gouging, neck-drilling action that is “The Equalizer,” lies a little character development; the kind that still allows 59-year-old superstar Denzel Washington to rule the cinema when it comes to everyman heroes. A predicta [...]