By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—In the drama “Demolition,” Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (“Brokeback Mountain”) plays a successful investment banker named Davis, who suffers a major breakdown after losing his wife in a tragic car accident and then has to rebuild himself from the grou [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Giancarlo Esposito attended the press conference today for Disney’s upcoming effects-laden update of “The Jungle Book,” opening April 15. Esposito provides the voice of Akela, the fearless leader of the wolf pack that takes man cub M [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hollywood comedies are filled with oppressive employers: from Dabney Coleman’s sexist and tyrannical Franklin M. Hart Jr. in “9 to 5,” to Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada” to all of the higher-ups in “Horrible Bosses,” to name [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Get ready to be scared silly when “The Hoarder” arrives on DVD Tuesday, April 5. Directed by Matt Winn (“January 2nd”), the horror drama stars Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”), Robert Knepper (“Prison Break”), Andrew Buckley (“The Extras”), Charlotte Salt (“The Tudo [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—There was a moment in Don Cheadle’s long and arduous journey to bring his vision of jazz legend Miles Davis’ colorful story to the big screen when the Oscar-nominated actor thought he might just throw in the towel. “There was no part of it where fear [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter The life and legacy of “Grandpa” John Schnabel is revealed on a special edition of Discovery Channel’s “Gold Rush,” airing Friday, April 1 at 9 PM ET/PT. Born in 1920, Schnabel was the son of a Kansas wheat farmer. His father br [...]