By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s hard to believe now but there was a time when someone actually told Sharon Stone she wasn’t sexy. Even her manager would warn her that she couldn’t get roles in Hollywood because she was too bookish and dressed too frumpy to be seriously consider [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Cast members of the hit British TV series “Downton Abbey” were on hand here for the Television Critics Association Summer Tour. Among them were Michelle Dockery, who plays the impossibly proper Lady Mary Crawley, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Dow [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The ridiculously lovely Rose Byrne lights up the brilliantly British “I Give It a Year,” a mish-mash of ditzy and edgy humor with more charm and wickedly winning wordplay than the average chick flick. Part of this tartly offbeat rom-com&# [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—No one would imagine the mundane occupation of striping roads would serve as the backdrop of a poignant dramedy about the relationship between two very different coworkers, and yet that is precisely the setting for filmmaker David Gordon Green’s whims [...]