By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s mid-afternoon and funnyman Jack Black is looking a bit weary. “I stuffed my face so hard at lunch, I need to stay here and take a nap,” he confesses. But soon Black is back to his old, convivial self, making jokes and pulling faces as he talks up [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON and JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Two years ago, Noah Hawley adapted the Coen brothers’ Academy Award-winning dark comedy “Fargo,” into a limited TV series. The series, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Colin Hanks, turned out to be an extraordinary work that [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The first season of Fox’s sci-fi TV drama “Wayward Pines” is available on DVD Tuesday, Oct. 13. Executive produced by Academy Award nominee M. Night Shyamalan (“The Sixth Sense”), and based on Blake Crouch’s bestselling books, the story begins with a car crash [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Keanu Reeves plays the victim of a home invasion in the psychological horror movie “Knock Knock.” The actor, best known as Neo from “The Matrix” movies, plays a successful American architect with an artist wife and two adorable children. It’s the firs [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The ingenious “Steve Jobs” updates the standard biopic operating system by stripping its subject’s life story down to backstage encounters at only three crucial events (with a few flashbacks): the 1984 launch of the Macintosh [...]