By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kelly Noonan is an up and coming actress who is athletic, beautiful, smart (she graduated from magna cum laude from UCLA) and full of energy. She’s also full of surprises. Reached by phone on a recent weekday afternoon, she reveals she is on her way t [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Who knew? Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas make a cute couple. The Oscar winners’ first film together, Rob Reiner’s “And So It Goes,” sadly, is sweet but rambling as they play a couple struggling to move past lives as widow and widower, and put a romantic s [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Unlikely heroes are at the heart of two new family-friendly home video releases. New on Blu-ray and DVD is “Rio 2,” the worthy recent follow up to the hit 2011 animated comedy about two rare blue macaws from different worlds that find true love. Jesse Eisenb [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In his post “Lord of the Rings” career, Elijah Wood has occupied himself mostly by making quirky independent films and, for the past four years, starring in an offbeat cable comedy TV series called “Wilfred.” Now, in its fourth and final season, “Wilf [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON and JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Former “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe revealed Tuesday that he has not read J.K. Rowling’s new story involving an older version of the wizard he played in eight films, but he intends to do so soon. Speaking via satellite from New [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Despite some enjoyable chemistry between them in director Jake Kasdan’s former semi-raunchy romp “Bad Teacher,” Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel have trouble keeping it up throughout “Sex Tape,” a rom-com film falling victim to a one-joke storyline that can’t sustain [...]
[ATTN. EDITORS: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS THE WORDS “BADASS” AND “BADASSES” IN IT. YOU MAY WANT TO EDIT CONTENT.] By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Audiences may recognize him as the Marvel comics supervillain Brock Rumlow/Crossbones in “Captain America: The Winter [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/co-writer Michel Gondry’s dense and dazzling “Mood Indigo” is so outrageously overloaded with imaginative settings, fantastic situations, dreamlike dramatics and appealing animation that you’ll wish your French were b [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Julie Bowen is best known for her role as helicopter mom Claire Dunphy on the ABC comedy “Modern Family.” In “Planes: Fire & Rescue,” the sequel to the hit 2013 animated feature, the actress gives voice to a character that is part of a family of f [...]