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Monster Madness for Charlie Day

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 8, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, Calif.—Monsters are very much a big part of Charlie Day’s life this summer. The “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” star plays a brilliant but somewhat offbeat scientist trying to conceive a way to stop alien monsters known as Kaiju from invading ea [...]

‘Pacific Rim’ Goes Big and Scores

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 8, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bigger definitely is better in the hugely entertaining “Pacific Rim,” a massive-scale mechanical-men vs. monsters blockbuster with a story as good as its special effects. Director/writer Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,&# [...]

AnnaSophia Robb is the Girl Next Door in ‘Way, Way Back’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 6, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—AnnaSophia Robb is getting used to her fashion icon status now that she is playing a younger version of fashion-conscious Carrie Bradshaw on the CW series “The Carrie Diaries.” Her words of advice to would-be fashionistas: “You have to have a seamstre [...]

Cera and Hoffman Shine in ‘Crystal Fairy’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 3, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic An irritatingly self-involved American takes a long and uneventful road trip to the Chilean seaside with some indulgent locals to get high on the boiled essence of an exotic cactus. That set-up may not bring the words “cinematic crowd-pleaser&# [...]

Depp Rides Off With ‘Lone Ranger’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 2, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Johnny Depp’s Tonto basically is Jack Sparrow with more face paint and a dead crow on his head in this tongue-in-cheek retelling of “The Lone Ranger,” while Armie Hammer’s title character is so pureheartedly Dudley Do-Rightish [...]

Johnny Depp is No Sidekick in ‘The Lone Ranger’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 1, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA FE, N.M.—As a youngster growing up in Kentucky, Johnny Depp would watch reruns of the TV series “The Lone Ranger” in black and white and remembers feeling “perturbed” with the depiction of Tonto (as played by Native American actor Jay Silverheels) as the [...]

Sam Worthington and Myles Pollard ‘Drift’ back to Australia

Film Features By Peter Gonzaga|July 1, 2013 |0

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It was a homecoming of sorts for Myles Pollard and Sam Worthington as they came together to produce and star in “Drift,” a film based on a pair of Australian surfers/entrepreneurs who revolutionized the surf scene by taking their produc [...]

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 [...]