By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Beginning with 2008’s “Iron Man,” and followed by 20 more superhero films in what has become known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the press conferences preceding the movies’ arrival in theaters have shared a common festive atmosphere. For “Avengers [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features We Die Young Action legend Jean-Claude Van Damme (“Double Impact,” “Bloodsport”) takes a powerful dramatic turn as a war veteran with PTSD helping two boys get revenge on a violent drug lord in the gritty crime thriller, “We Die Young,” arriving on Blu-ray and  [...]

By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic As directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s (“Scream: The TV Series”) big-screen remake of Stephen King’s classic novel “Pet Sematary” reminds audiences: “Sometimes dead is better”—and sometimes things are better left alone. Not that the new Param [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Filmmaker Mike Leigh couldn’t have imagined the divisiveness of Brexit, the rise of the yellow jacket protestors in France and general unrest elsewhere in Europe as well as this side of the pond when he was contemplating making his historic epic “Pete [...]