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REVIEW: ‘The Craft: Legacy’ Attempts to Conjure Female Empowerment

Film Reviews Reviews By Lynn Barker|October 27, 2020 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Film Critic In 1996, teenage girls were inspired to take a crack at spell-casting with the release of “The Craft,” directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk and Rachel True. In the process, those fans learned that witchcraf [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse TV Chief Talks Slate of Films for Welcome to the Blumhouse Rolling Out this Week

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|October 6, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Amazon Prime Video’s “Welcome to the Blumhouse,” a program of eight unsettling, genre movies produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, premieres this week with “Black Box” and “The Lie,” scheduled for ex [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Will Wernick Takes Viewers on Another Escape Room Journey with an International Twist

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 16, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror filmmaker Will Wernick recalls visiting his first escape room The Basement in northern Los Angeles in advance of making his 2017 film “Escape Room.” He has since visited 20 of these experiential game locations in which teams move through a buil [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Horrormeister Aaron B. Koontz Knocks Out Cowboys vs. Witches Mashup with ‘The Pale Door’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 18, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror filmmaker Aaron B. Koontz recalls as a child having a coloring book filled with forest animals but instead of using the greens and browns and other colors of the woods and staying inside the lines, he instead would transport the animals in to s [...]

Lucy Hale Deplanes to Tropical Revenge-Fantasy Nightmare

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|February 13, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Lucy Hale wasn’t alive yet when the popular adventure series “Fantasy Island” wrapped after seven seasons on ABC in 1984. However, her parents were fans of the weekly show that starred acclaimed Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban as the mysterious host o [...]

Kyliegh Curran Has the Shine in Stephen King’s ‘Doctor Sleep’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 6, 2019 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kyliegh Curran is only 13 years old but already is an accomplished actress. The Miami native starred in a Broadway production of “The Lion King,” as Young Nala when she was 10. And she now has a leading role in the big screen adaptation of Stephen Kin [...]

Guillermo del Toro Scares Up Classic Story Collection in New Film

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 7, 2019 |0

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 [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Diana Silvers on the Cusp of Stardom with Roles in ‘Booksmart,’ ‘Ma’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 28, 2019 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s an unseasonably cold and cloudy May afternoon in Los Angeles, inside a dilapidated century-old mansion which serves as the perfect backdrop to be interviewing up-and-coming actress Diana Silvers, who has two feature films coming out within a week [...]

EXCLUSIVE: David Yarovesky Turns Superhero Origins Story on Its Head in Terrifying ‘Brightburn’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 21, 2019 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Rising filmmaker David Yarovesky was one of those kids who was considered an oddball, an outsider when he was growing up. He had dyed jet black hair. He wore Freddy Krueger t-shirts. He wrote creepy horror stories in English class. Sometimes, his mom [...]

REVIEW: ‘Pet Sematary’ Isn’t Quite Dead on Arrival, But Needs More Life

Film Reviews Reviews By Heather Turk|April 4, 2019 |0

By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic As directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s (“Scream: The TV Series”) big-screen remake of Stephen King’s classic novel “Pet Sematary” reminds audiences: “Sometimes dead is better”—and sometimes things are better left alone. Not that the new Param [...]