By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—On August 18, Robert Redford turns 80. Yet the two-time Academy Awards winner (one for directing “Ordinary People” and an honorary award for his contribution to the independent film industry through Sundance) feels as though he’s just hitting his stri [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “The Golden Age of Musicals” featuring 17 classic films from the genre’s peak era and spanning from 1937 to 1957, is available in a five-disc DVD collector’s set starting Tuesday Aug. 9 from Film Chest Media Group. In the Golden Age of cinema the emergence of s [...]

By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic One of the year’s most highly anticipated films, Warner Bros.’ “Suicide Squad” is finally in theaters. Picking up after the downright dreadful “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” writer-director David Ayer’s (“Fury”) DC Comics adaptation follows a  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—“Suicide Squad” brings a lot of A-list actors together to play hardened criminals that are recruited by a high-ranking government intelligence officer to embark on a dangerous mission. If they comply, they get time off their lengthy sentences; if they  [...]