By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After delivering dead-on performances depicting pioneering African-American icons of the 20th century—ballplayer Jackie Robinson, vocalist James Brown and justice Thurgood Marshall—actor Chadwick Boseman dons the suit of a fictional superhero in “Blac [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the upcoming “Mary Poppins Returns,” the long-anticipated sequel to the hit 1964 Disney musical, Emily Mortimer plays an all-grown-up Jane Banks. The Rob Marshall-directed sequel, which also stars Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Dick Van Dyke is set  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—While Marvel’s “Black Panther” superhero epic is being hailed as a historic achievement in popular cinema for bringing the first black superhero—the eponymous title character who also becomes the king of an under-the-radar highly advanced African coun [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Acclaimed filmmaker Nick Park has employed the painstaking process of stop-motion animation to bring his imaginative and humorous films to life ever since he was a teenager. Influenced by stop-motion animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen, the amiable and, [...]