By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It can be both a blessing and a challenge to star in a spinoff of a wildly popular TV show. On the one hand, you have a built-in audience who already is familiar with the set up. On the other, inevitably viewers will judge and compare your version wit [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Available Tuesday, Aug. 18 on DVD is “Catching Faith,” a moving story about a woman who seems to have it all—a perfect marriage, a daughter at the top of her class and an athletic son at the top of his game.  But things are not always as they appear  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON and JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Corey Stoll stars as Dr. Ephraim Goodweather on FX’s vampire series “The Strain.” Like other characters he’s played, “Eph” isn’t entirely a good guy or a bad guy. As the second season of the series has unfolded, his character seems to  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features LONDON—Having put on the mask for “The Lone Ranger” in 2013 in which he was paired with Johnny Depp (as Native American sidekick Tonto), Armie Hammer takes on another classic pop culture character, Ilya Kuryakin, in his new film “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” Based  [...]