By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Prostitution. Insanity. Infidelity. Those are some of the subjects delved into in “The Crimson Petal and the White,” a provocative four-part miniseries about an ambitious young prostitute and her wealthy john, set in Victorian England. The Gothic melodrama is b [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Joseph Gordon-Levitt is having quite a year. Having starred in the box office hit “The Dark Knight Rises” and the end-of-summer action thriller “Premium Rush,” as well as hosting “Saturday Night Live,” the busy performer is now playing Bruce Willis. [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD—Rihanna brought back the sparkle to the music world as she debuted her new single “Diamonds” on radio stations worldwide today, with the sales of the single released an hour after it hit the airwaves on iTunes along with music stores thro [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Without seeing this year’s dueling animated Halloween flicks, it might be hard to imagine any critic liking the Adam Sandler-starring “Hotel Transylvania” more than the Tim Burton-directed “Frankenweenie.” Sandler is inf [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD—Grammy Award-winner Kenny Rogers will publish his autobiography,”Luck or Something Like It,” in October. To support the publication, the legendary singer will embark on a tour to several U.S. cities. The famously bearded singer has thrive [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Science fiction flicks that don’t make a lick of sense can compensate by offering a sufficient quantity of fun (“Back to the Future”) or stylized weirdness (“The Matrix”). The humorless and derivative “Looper” [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—John August, who has been tapped to write the movie version of the DC/Vertigo Comics series “Preacher” created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, describes the project as “gestating.” “I don’t know if the birth is going to be anytime soon, [...]