By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A visit to Scotland’s Scone Palace in the mid-1990s proved fateful for Misan Sagay, a medical student at the time attending nearby prestigious St. Andrews University. While walking through the rooms, she spied a beautiful painting. The 200-year-old un [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kevin Spacey reunites with his “American Beauty” director Sam Mendes to bring the experience of taking Shakespeare’s Richard III on the road in an around the world touring production in the documentary “Now: In the Wings on a World Stage.” The 54-year [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Aussie actress Rose Byrne began her career 20 years ago in her native land in the romantic comedy “Dallas Doll,” playing a UFO-obsessed teenager. The brunette beauty went on to gain worldwide exposure playing the double of Natalie Portman’s Senator Pa [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—The final episode of the season for the eerie drama series “Bates Motel” airs Monday on A&E. Series star Freddie Highmore, who plays conflicted oddball Norman Bates opposite Vera Farmiga, who plays his manipulative mother, Norma, promises some res [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/co-writer Richard Ayoade’s deliciously dark “The Double” is Fyodor Dostoevsky by way of David Fincher’s “Fight Club” and Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil.” Outrageously stylish, frequently unsettl [...]