June 2013 - Front Row Features

Steve Carell Tackles Parenting Challenges in ‘Despicable Me 2,’ ‘Way, Way Back’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 30, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Steve Carell fans must feel like pigs in mud. Not only did they get their wish and see him return as Michael Scott this past spring in the series finale of the “The Office,” they also saw him as a Siegfried-like Las Vegas magician in the big screen co [...]

Vintage Patrick Stewart in ‘North & South’

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|June 30, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Just in time for Independence Day, the classic BBC period drama, “North & South” starring Patrick Stewart (“X-Men,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation”), makes its long-awaited worldwide DVD debut from Acorn. A classic British romance in the vein of [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Just Like Sienna Miller

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 29, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Sienna Miller’s life has changed dramatically in the past year. The gorgeous blond got engaged to longtime beau Tom Sturridge and moved to New York. But the biggest life change for the 31-year-old is becoming a first-time mom. She gave birth to Marlow [...]

Benjamin Bratt Goes Big in ‘Despicable Me 2’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 26, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In “Despicable Me 2,” the highly anticipated sequel to the hit 2010 animated comedy, Benjamin Bratt voices the character of dance crazy restaurateur Eduardo, who also may be a nefarious supervillain named El Macho. At least, that’s what Gru (Steve Car [...]

Miranda Cosgrove Reprises Brainy Margo in ‘Despicable Me 2’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 25, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At 20, Miranda Cosgrove has been acting for more than half her life. But don’t confuse her with so many of the other child performers who have gone astray. You’re not likely to see Cosgrove, who most notably starred in the kid-friendly Nickelodeon ser [...]

‘Downton Abbey’ Creator and Cast Talk Season Four

TV Features By Angela Dawson|June 25, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Production on the fourth season of the wildly popular British period soap opera “Downton Abbey” is under way, but show creator Julian Fellowes and some of the stars stole some time away from the set to talk about what TV viewers can expect now that tw [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Ruth Wilson Saddles Up for ‘Lone Ranger’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 24, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA FE, N.M.—In this dusty remote region of the U.S., you’d be very hard pressed to find anyone speaking with an English accent. And yet in a beige bungalow in the middle of this beautiful town in a state affectionately known as “Land of Enchantment” sits lov [...]

Pedro Almodovar is ‘Excited’ About His New Comedy

Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 21, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Pedro Almodovar is one of those rare directors whose Spanish-language films are warmly welcomed outside his home country, even in the subtitle-averse U.S. “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!” “All About My Mother,” “T [...]

Filmmakers Talk Making the Grade in ‘Monsters University’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 19, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, Calif.—It’s easy to see where the Pixar animators gathered some of their ideas for their newest film, “Monsters University.” They simply had to look around the campus-like grounds of their pioneering animation house just 45 minutes from San Francisc [...]

‘World War Z’ Dead on Arrival

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|June 19, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Perhaps best known as the director who managed to botch the second Daniel Craig 007 outing (“Quantum of Solace”) after “Casino Royale” had reinvigorated the James Bond franchise, Marc Forster does an even worse job at the helm [...]