By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After a star-making turn playing George Clooney’s surly daughter in “The Descendants,” Shailene Woodley delivers another noteworthy performance as a teenage “nice girl” who befriends a charming but troubled classmate in “The Spectacular Now.” The dram [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Logan Lerman reprises his role as a teenage demigod in the action-packed “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” a sequel to 2010’s “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” The films are based on Rick Riordan’s popular young adult fantasy b [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actor James Marsden is calling from the driveway of his Los Angeles home because the cell phone reception inside his house is pretty lousy. Though it’s a scorching 100-degree day, Marsden assures he is “comfy” and not to worry. Marsden, of course, is  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett (“The Aviator”) plays a former New York socialite who has fallen on hard times in Woody Allen’s dramedy “Blue Jasmine.” The juicy role, in which the Australian actress plays the title character Jasmine Fren [...]