By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill are three of the funniest actors in Hollywood and have worked with each other in various comedies over the years. Stiller and Vaughn co-starred in “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” and “Dodgeball” and Sti [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Any writer will tell you a character sometimes will take over a story as it is being created. Actress and budding screenwriter Zoe Kazan takes that premise literally in her first produced screenplay “Ruby Sparks,” a quirky romantic comedy in which a n [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Fresh from his turn as an exotic dancer and strip club proprietor in “Magic Mike,” Matthew McConaughey plays a far more sinister character in his newest movie, the ultra-violent “Killer Joe,” in which he plays the title character, a killer for hire wh [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Producers of “The Bourne Legacy,” the latest installment of the popular “Bourne” action-thriller franchise said Friday they have no intentions of altering or eliminating a scene in that film in which a mass shooting takes place by a lone gunman. The s [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bloated, boring and obsolete on arrival, “The Dark Knight Rises” is the least fun you’ll have at a superhero movie all year. This final chapter in director/co-writer Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is so relentlessly dull t [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Will Ferrell has three words for Congress: stop screwing around. At least that’s the message he’s taking to Washington on his so-called Whistle-Stop Tour Across America, which kicked off here Tuesday. Ferrell, who’s famous for depicting George W. Bush [...]