By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Academy Award nominee Michael Keaton (“Birdman”) knew as much about McDonald’s Ray Kroc as the next guy. Widely regarded as the multinational fast food chain’s brilliant founder, Kroc started out a struggling restaurant equipment salesman who saw an o [...]

By JUDY SLOANE and ANGELA DAWSON HOLLYWOOD—In his two decades as an actor, Jude Law has played his share of heroes and villains. Now he rises to the level of the Holy See in the HBO miniseries “The Young Pope.” Not only is Law’s Pope Pius XIII young (by pope standards) but he also plays the  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Alex Gibney’s “Zero Days” arrives on DVD Tuesday Jan. 17. The documentary thriller delves into the type of warfare in a world without rules—cyber war. Gibney explores Stuxnet, self-replicating computer malware (known as a “worm” for its ability to burrow from c [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—For five seasons, Douglas Smith played Ben Henrickson, the conflicted oldest son of Bill Paxton and Jeanne Tripplehorn’s polygamous characters on the acclaimed HBO series “Big Love.” Though the series ended nearly six years ago, the Canadian-born acto [...]