By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Behind almost any great athlete is an almost equally great coach. Legendary African-American track runner and U.S. Olympic champion Jesse Owens had Larry Snyder, his color-blind coach from Ohio State University, when he began his incredible road to th [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “Black Mass,” starring Johnny Depp as notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD Tuesday, Feb. 16. The true crime drama also is available on Digital HD. Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart”), “Black Mass” also stars Joel Ed [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter HOLLYWOOD—Spotlight Pictures has acquired international sales rights for the sports drama, “Courage,” based on an inspirational true story and the novel “Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story” by Jim Dent, it was announced Friday. [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—Katie Holmes plays a poet with bipolar disorder whose work is fueled by her emotional extremes in the romantic drama “Touched With Fire.” As Carla, she meets Marco, also a poet (played by Luke Kirby, TV’s “Rectify”), with the same condition while recei [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The 15-year gap between 2001’s “Zoolander” and this similarly silly sequel is addressed in a quick catch-up that gets points for aging the characters in real time, but which also adds melancholy to the mirth. The movie has several g [...]