By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Dwayne Johnson gives voice to a demigod named Maui in Disney’s colorful tropical animated adventure “Moana.” The professional wrestler turned action and comedy star spent part of his youth in Hawaii and is Polynesian on his mother’s side. He say [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features It’s hard to believe it’s been 13 years since “Finding Nemo” first swam into audiences’ hearts. While the beloved animated adventure’s long-awaited sequel, “Finding Dory,” may not live up to the high standards Pixar set for itself with “Toy Story 2” and “Toy Sto [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features It’s hard to believe six years have passed since Disney reimagined its beloved animated tale “Alice in Wonderland” as a live-action feature film. Since then, a couple of other Disney animated classics have gotten the live-action adaptation treatment, including “ [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” might be a literary classic, but many would say that Walt Disney Productions’ 1967 animated film of the same name is the definitive version of the coming-of-age tale of a man-cub raised in the jungle by a family of wolves. Tha [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Disney’s original “Pete’s Dragon” flew into theaters four years before Bryce Dallas Howard was born. Now, the 35-year-old actress stars in the studio’s 2015 update of the iconic fantasy adventure film. In it she plays Grace, the sensible grown daughte [...]