By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Elle Fanning was only 14 when she starred in “Maleficent,” Disney’s live-action Sleeping Beauty update, where the focus was on the villainous sorceress who lured the young princess into a spell in which she could only be awakened by true love’s kiss.  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—With a quiet, unassuming manner and lean bookish appearance, Shawn Christensen could pass for just another aspiring writer or musician here in the City of Angels. But the thirtysomething New York native already is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker (2 [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Former child star Logan Lerman tackles his most demanding role to date in the drama “The Vanishing of Sidney Hall,” co-written and directed by Academy Award winner Shawn Christensen (writer/director of the 2012 short film “Curfew”).  Now 26, the Los A [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/screenwriter Sofia Coppola’s gauzily gutless remake of director Don Siegel’s deliciously devilish “The Beguiled” betrays nearly every earthy element that made the 1971 version such a wickedly guilty pleasure. Where th [...]