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 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—While other actresses get arrested for selfish and stupid mistakes like public intoxication, shoplifting or assault, Daryl Hannah prides herself on getting into trouble for altruistic reasons. Within a recent six-month span, the “Splash” and “Kill Bil [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, Calif.—Monsters are very much a big part of Charlie Day’s life this summer. The “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” star plays a brilliant but somewhat offbeat scientist trying to conceive a way to stop alien monsters known as Kaiju from invading ea [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bigger definitely is better in the hugely entertaining “Pacific Rim,” a massive-scale mechanical-men vs. monsters blockbuster with a story as good as its special effects. Director/writer Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth, [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—AnnaSophia Robb is getting used to her fashion icon status now that she is playing a younger version of fashion-conscious Carrie Bradshaw on the CW series “The Carrie Diaries.” Her words of advice to would-be fashionistas: “You have to have a seamstre [...]