By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Though he primarily is known as a rapper and host of TV’s “America’s Got Talent,” Nick Cannon also is an actor. He gets to show off his chops in Spike Lee’s musical-political-social satire “Chi-Raq.” In it, he plays a fearsome Chicago gangbanger, who [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Martin Clunes returns as the brash yet brilliant titular village physician in Britain’s “Doc Martin.” The long-awaited seventh series (season, as it is referred to in the U.S.) of the popular medical comedy premieres Thursday, Jan. 14 at 8 p.m. on som [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features BBC’s “Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime” makes its DVD and Blu-ray debut on Tuesday Jan. 5, from Acorn. David Walliams and Jessica Raine play an ordinary married couple that gets caught up in international intrigue and discovers that they have a knack [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Carter Burwell has composed the music for more than 80 features films in his long career. The native New Yorker has penned the scores of nearly all of the films of sibling filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, including “Raising Arizona,” “Miller’s Crossing [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON and JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—For five seasons, Laura Carmichael has played plotting and often put-upon middle child Edith Crawley on the worldwide hit TV drama series “Downton Abbey.” The sixth—and final—season premieres Sunday, Jan. 3 at 9 p.m./8C on PBS. The lon [...]