By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Growing up in Birmingham, England during and just after World War II, Mike Pinder would steal away to a wooden box in the backyard where he would lay down and stare up at the moon and the stars, imagining what it would be like to travel to different w [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features With the imminent theatrical release of “300: Rise of an Empire,” the sequel to the hit 2006 swords-and-sandals epic, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is releasing for the first time a Blu-ray edition of “The 300 Spartans.” The 1962 historic epic, direc [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Music impresario Quincy Jones holds the record as the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time with a total of 79 nods and 27 wins. Steeped in the world of jazz and pop, he has worked with and known all the greats. Among his notable achievements, he p [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The impressively acted, well written and beautifully shot period piece “In Secret” manages to morph from a convincingly Dickensian coming-of-age tale into a grimly suspenseful film noir without getting too garishly gothic about it. Combin [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After six seasons of playing the long-suffering wife of a workaholic Miami plastic surgeon on FX’s sexy drama “Nip/Tuck,” Joely Richardson decided it was time to return to her theater roots. Though she, admittedly, was a little afraid of getting back [...]