By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic Todd Phillips may be best known for wacky comedies (“The Hangover” trilogy, “Old School,” “Road Trip”), but the writer-director gets a little more serious with his latest big-screen effort, “War Dogs.” Based on a true story, the film follows two chil [...]

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—For Travis Knight, President and CEO of Laika Studios, “Kubo and the Two Strings” is a film that brings back his childhood memory of being in awe of Japan as an eight-year-old tourist from Portland, Ore., when he visited the inspiring country. Alon [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Rising French filmmaker Alice Winocour was deep into editing her second feature, “Disorder,” when she emerged from the studio one night to discover armed soldiers on the Paris street following the deadly bombing of the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices l [...]

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