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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 [...]

Kenneth Branagh Takes a Stab at Classic Whodunit ‘Murder on the Orient Express’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 6, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—One might think it takes a lot of hubris to remake Sidney Lumet’s successful 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express.” After all, the critically acclaimed and popular feature film boasted a star-studded cast that included La [...]

Photos: New Technology Allows Visually-Impaired to Enjoy ‘Dealt’ Documentary

Film Features By Peter Gonzaga|November 4, 2017 |0

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Cast, Filmmakers Game for ‘Thor: Ragnarok’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 31, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A press conference for the highly anticipated “Thor: Ragnarok” begins to resemble an episode of “The Price is Right” game show, with press and bloggers assigned numbers to enter a hotel ballroom to interview—or at least gaze upon and record—cast membe [...]

Criterion’s ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me’ Adds 90 Must-See Minutes

DVD Features Features By James Dawson|October 29, 2017 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The new “Director Approved” Criterion Collection edition of 1992’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” available as a single Blu-ray and a two-disc DVD, adds a whopping 90 minutes of expanded and deleted scenes plus other e [...]

‘Kidnap,’ ‘Person to Person,’ ‘Humans 2.0,’ More on Blu-ray and DVD

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|October 29, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Follow the intense journey as one mother shows how far she will go to save her child in the non-stop thrill ride, “Kidnap” on Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand Tuesday Oct. 31, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Produced by and starring Academy Award winning [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Maggie Betts, Actress Margaret Qualley Speak Up on ‘Novitiate’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 26, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—The late Mother Teresa’s published private correspondence is proving to be a fount of source material for movies about nuns. There was 2014’s “The Letters,” that starred Juliet Stevenson as the beloved charity-driven nun who secretly harbors doubts ab [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Miles Teller Suits Up As Selfless Saviors in ‘Thank You For Your Service,’ ‘Only the Brave’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 23, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Miles Teller, whose memorable turn as a budding drummer who suffers under a cruel and demanding instructor in 2014’s “Whiplash,” stars in two new films in which he plays unsung everyday heroes risking their lives in service to their community— “Only t [...]