By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror storyteller-with-a-soul Guillermo del Toro recalls roaming through a San Antonio bookstore as a young teenager and coming across Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” illustrated by Stephen Gammell. “The cover illustration was s [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins has been an actor for nearly 50 of his 70 years. The soft-spoken thespian began his career onstage appearing in regional theater productions. It wasn’t until 1985 that he made his big screen debut in the Lawrence Kasdan W [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Mexican film auteur Guillermo del Toro earned three Oscar nominations Tuesday for his fable-like sci-fi romance “The Shape of Water,” which has been soaking up trophies throughout this awards season. Del Toro was nominated in the directing, writing (w [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winner Octavia Spencer is starting to feel stuck. In 1962. And she wants out. “This is my third time,” she says during an interview, referring to playing a character of that segregated era. In Guillermo del Toro’s much buzzed about f [...]