By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Comedian/actor Mike Epps is on a roll. The Indianapolis-born performer is signed to play legendary comedian Richard Pryor in an upcoming biopic. He also is set to star in ABC’s “Uncle Buck,” a sitcom based on the 1989 comedy that starred legendary com [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Anchor Bay Entertainment and The Weinstein Company present the home entertainment release of the eighth film by two-time Academy Award winner Quentin Tarantino (“Django Unchained”, “Pulp Fiction”). Shot entirely on 70mm and featuring an Academy Award-winning sc [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—British actor Tom Hiddleston has carved himself a niche in recent years, playing villains and antiheroes in Hollywood films. Most notably, he plays Thor’s jealous and destructive adoptive brother Loki in the Marvel superhero films. And yet the formall [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Stupid, sadistic and absolutely no fun whatsoever, the relentlessly dreary “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” offers further proof that every 21st-century Warner Bros. movie featuring those characters seems doomed to be dark, depressing [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After the phenomenal success of 2002’s international sleeper hit “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” the pressure was on Nia Vardalos, the star and writer of the Mediterranean-flavored family comedy, to come up with a sequel. But Vardalos, a Canadian of Greek [...]