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Actors Take a Walk on the Dark Side in ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 12, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Back in the days of the early “Star Wars” films, there were the good guys (Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia) and a really really bad guy (Darth Vader). In the new chapters of this now iconic sci-fi franchise entering its fifth decade, good a [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Rene Russo is ‘Just Getting Started’ with Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones Comedy

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 5, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Over the course of her four-decade acting career, charming and sexy Rene Russo has worked with Hollywood’s most renowned leading men: Robert De Niro (“Showtime”), Kevin Costner (“Tin Cup”), Mel Gibson (“Lethal Weapon 3 & 4”), Pierce Brosnan (“The [...]

Oscar Winner Octavia Spencer Talks ‘Shape of Water,’ Hollywood Scandal

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 28, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winner Octavia Spencer is starting to feel stuck. In 1962. And she wants out. “This is my third time,” she says during an interview, referring to playing a character of that segregated era. In Guillermo del Toro’s much buzzed about f [...]

James Franco Plays Real Life Offbeat Filmmaker in ‘The Disaster Artist’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 27, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Anyone can make a bad movie, but it takes a special kind of filmmaker to cook up a memorable turkey. Hollywood is known to celebrate such dreamers. Tim Burton, for example, paid tribute to horrormeister Ed Wood, with a 1994 dramedy starring Johnny Dep [...]

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Logan Lucky’ Speeds onto Home Entertainment

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|November 26, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features From Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic,” “Ocean’s” trilogy) comes a caper comedy with a twist. “Logan Lucky” rides into retailers Tuesday Nov. 28 on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Th [...]

Armie Hammer Explores Forbidden Passion in ‘Call Me By Your Name’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 22, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Armie Hammer knew it would be a challenge take on the role of 24-year-old grad student who has a passionate affair with the teenage son of the professor for whom he is interning in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of Andre Aciman’s acclaimed novel, “ [...]

‘Coco’s’ Cast, Filmmakers Talk Politics, Mexican Culture

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 20, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—While Disney/Pixar’s “Coco” is a colorful and musical homage to the Mexican annual tradition of celebrating the Day of the Dead, it also arrives in theaters just as a political storm has engulfed the U.S. regarding immigration from South of the Border [...]

The Gang’s All Here in ‘Justice League’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 14, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features LONDON—Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman are joined by fellow DC Comics superheroes Aquaman, The Flash and Cyborg in the highly anticipated fantasy action spectacle “Justice League.” Ben Affleck reprises his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman, alongside Gal Gadot, who [...]

Ferguson Doc, Agatha Christie Titles, ‘Rake,’ More on Home Entertainment … Plus a Giveaway!!!

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|November 12, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “Whose Streets?,” an unflinching documentary about the Ferguson, Mo., uprising and its aftermath, is available Tuesday Nov. 14 on DVD, from Magnolia Home Entertainment. It also is available on Digital HD. Filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis document the e [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Documentarian Joe Berlinger Goes Behind the Scenes of Hollywood’s Armenian Genocide Fail

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 11, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Various attempts over the years to make a Hollywood studio feature film about the Armenian genocide have been thwarted, including an attempt by legendary producer Irving Thalberg to make a film about the subject in the 1930s. The U.S. State Department [...]