2013 - Page 11 of 28 - Front Row Features

Teri Hatcher Onboard as Role Model in ‘Planes’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 5, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON SANTA MONICA, Calif.—As she arrives for an interview at the Museum of Flying, actress Teri Hatcher can’t help but stop for a moment to admire the vintage flight attendant apparel on display. “I love that,” she squeals to her publicist pointing to a ‘50s-era salmon colored c [...]

‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘The Americans’ Among Critics’ Group Winners

News By Angela Dawson|August 5, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON and JUDY SLOANE HOLLYWOOD—“Breaking Bad,” the acclaimed AMC drama starring Bryan Cranston as a high school teacher who becomes a drug kingpin in Albuquerque, N.M., is the Program of the Year, according to the Television Critics Association. That and other TV shows and actors of t [...]

A Stripped-Down Jennifer Aniston in ‘Millers’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 5, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON NEW YORK—Biologically, Jennifer Aniston is 44 but you’d never guess it from watching her play a smokin’ hot stripper who joins a drug dealer’s clandestine plot to pose as a normal family on vacation in Mexico to smuggle drugs across the border. The former “Friends” star recently [...]

Three ‘Avatar’ Sequels in the Works

News By Angela Dawson|August 3, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron has announced that he will bring out three more sequels to the hit fantasy adventure “Avatar.” Previously, two sequels were planned. To help bring his growing “Avatar” universe to l [...]

A ‘Spectacular’ Follow Up for Shailene Woodley

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 31, 2013 |0

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 [...]

Logan Lerman Sets Course for ‘Sea’ Adventure

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

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 [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Cyclops Takes it in the Eye in ‘2 Guns’

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

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 [...]

Cate Blanchett in Full Bloom as Woody Allen’s ‘Jasmine’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 27, 2013 |0

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 [...]

Jackman Wows in ‘Wolverine’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 25, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic A dying Japanese zillionaire in “The Wolverine” is shown lying on a shiny CGI platform made of upright metal rods that automatically conform to his every change in position. That high-tech bed of nails looks so ridiculously uncomfortable [...]

‘Drive’ Filmmaker Sets a Course for Bangkok in ‘Only God Forgives’

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn reconnects with his “Drive” team Ryan Gosling and musician Cliff Martinez on “Only God Forgives,” a dark drama that takes place in Thailand. Refn says he always had wanted to make a martial arts film, but thought [...]