By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bradley Cooper may not be the first person you think of when casting a mentally unstable and emotionally vulnerable individual forced to move in with his elderly parents (played by Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver) after completing a court-ordered inst [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Isla Fisher is best known for her memorable performance as Vince Vaughn’s wacky love interest in “The Wedding Crashers.” She has starred in several other adult-oriented comedies such as “Bachelorette,” “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” “Definitely, Maybe [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the sci-fi thriller “Citadel,” a young widower has to protect his baby from would-be predators that roam his housing project. You’d think he’d simply run away, but Tommy Cowley (played by Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard) is agoraphobic, so he’s trapped [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Martin Scorsese has Leonardo DiCaprio. Ridley Scott has Russell Crowe. Director Joe Wright’s go-to actor is the lovely and versatile Keira Knightley. The director first cast Knightley as the Jane Austen heroine Elizabeth Bennet in his 2005 drama “Prid [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ashley Greene is stuck, literally. If only she had her “Twilight” character Alice’s precognition ability. She would have seen that she would get stuck in the Big Apple during hurricane Sandy, and then face a blizzard so she couldn’t fly to her a [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Every Danish schoolboy knows the story of the 18th century mad monarch Christian VII, his British-born queen Caroline and a court physician named Johann Struensee, who helped bring about social reforms in that small European country before getting cau [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Daniel Craig arrives for a press conference looking almost intimidatingly dapper in a dark suit, gray shirt and matching tie. He’s all smiles and seems absolutely jazzed. And why shouldn’t he be? His latest outing as secret agent James Bond in the Sam [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Steven Spielberg has had a passion for Abraham Lincoln since he was a youth. He was long interested in making a movie about the 16th president, but he wasn’t sure exactly how to tell the story of his personal hero until he met with Lincoln historian/a [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Mark Ivanir had 10 days to become a violin virtuoso, or at least appear to be one onscreen, for the drama “A Late Quartet.” The Russia-born, Israel-raised former soldier and circus performer was a last minute replacement when another actor dropped out [...]