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Jane Fonda Revealed in ‘Five Acts’ Documentary

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|September 19, 2018 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In her 80-plus years on this planet, Jane Fonda has lived many lives—ingenue, sex symbol (“Barbarella”), Oscar winner (for her performances in “Coming Home” and “Klute”), fitness guru and activist, being labeled “Hanoi Jane” when she visited communist N [...]

Photos: Noted Animal Documentarian Returns with ‘Pandas’

Film Features Photos Photo Gallery By Lynn Barker|August 9, 2018 |0

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Noted Animal Documentarian Returns with ‘Pandas’

Features Film Features By Lynn Barker|August 9, 2018 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features “Pandas” filmmaker Drew Fellman loves animals and has made several IMAX films documenting efforts to save those most endangered. His “Born to be Wild” delved into the lives of orphaned orangutans and elephants and his “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar” centered on th [...]

EXCLUSIVE: You Will Never Forget Ashley Bell’s Elephant Documentary

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 24, 2018 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress Ashley Bell is best known for portraying a young woman possessed by the devil in the horror franchise “The Last Exorcism.” The native Angeleno confronts another type of evil, an atrocity against nature committed by man, in a documentary she pr [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Documentarian Joe Berlinger Goes Behind the Scenes of Hollywood’s Armenian Genocide Fail

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 11, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Various attempts over the years to make a Hollywood studio feature film about the Armenian genocide have been thwarted, including an attempt by legendary producer Irving Thalberg to make a film about the subject in the 1930s. The U.S. State Department [...]

New Technology Allows Visually-Impaired to Enjoy ‘Dealt’ Documentary

News By Angela Dawson|November 4, 2017 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter HOLLYWOOD—“Dealt,” a remarkable new documentary chronicling the colorful life and career of famed “card mechanic” Richard Turner, is embracing new technology that allow its subject, who happens to be blind, and other members of the vision-impaired community [...]

‘Chucky,’ ‘Loch Ness,’ the Beatles, More on Home Entertainment … Plus Giveaways!!!

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|September 30, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Fans of the world’s most demonic doll are in for another blood-spattered treat as Chucky continues his reign of terror behind the locked doors of an insane asylum in “Cult of Chucky,” coming to Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and On Demand on Tuesday Oct. 3, from Univers [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Curiosity Led Filmmaker to Document Book Character’s Creators

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 15, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ema Ryan Yamazaki grew up in Japan reading H.A. and Margret Rey’s “Curious George” books in her native language. As a child, she assumed the good little monkey who was always very curious was Japanese. Only later did she learn what a global phenomenon [...]

Photos: Filmmaker Mark Gordon Explores Life of New Mexico Arts Luminary in Documentary

Film Features Photos Photo Gallery By Lynn Barker|June 14, 2017 |0

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Ali MacGraw’s ‘Awakening’

Features Film Features By Lynn Barker|June 14, 2017 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— “All that Hollywood ******** doesn’t cut it here. What a luxury!” Oscar nominee Ali MacGraw (“Love Story”) says before a packed house at the Albuquerque Film and Music Experience. MacGraw, now 78 and a resident of Tesuque, N.M. for the past qua [...]