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EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Tom Tykwer Awaits ‘A Hologram for the King’ Release

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 22, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In Tom Tykwer’s filmed adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel “A Hologram for the King,” a desperate American businessman (played by two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks) awaits a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s monarch in hopes of landing a lucrative contract to pr [...]

Susan Sarandon Embraces her Inner Doter in ‘The Meddler’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 20, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Susan Sarandon is notable not only for her long and illustrious acting career but also for being opinionated and frequently outspoken on social and political issues. The 69-year-old Oscar winner recently caused a public stir when she suggested that GO [...]

Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt Get the Royal Treatment in ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 19, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Though the prequel to 2012 “Snow White & the Huntsman” is called “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,” the more compelling storyline of the action adventure is one of sibling rivalry between evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron resurrecting the role) and h [...]

Norm, Leo, Maggie, Agatha Christie, ‘Veep,’ and More on Home Entertainment

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|April 17, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Lionsgate’s family adventure “Norm of the North” is available Tuesday, April 19 in a Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand. Follow the adventures of Norm, a polar bear from the Arctic who happens to have some very unusual talents and has to head outside of his [...]

Favreau & Co. Welcome Audiences to the ‘Jungle’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 12, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—The exotic adventure stories of 19th century author Rudyard Kipling are revisited in Jon Favreau’s imaginatively shot live-action/CGI hybrid “The Jungle Book,” which also hearkens to Disney’s 1967 animated musical classic. It tells the tale of Mowgli, [...]

Ice Cube Back at the Barbershop in ‘The Next Cut’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 12, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—On the heels of his successful 2015 biographical “Straight Outta Compton” (which he helped produce), rapper turned actor Ice Cube (born O’Shea Jackson) returns for another appointment with his popular “Barbershop” franchise. Twelve years after “Barber [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker/Star Julie Delpy Talks ‘Lolo’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 8, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Growing up in France with parents who were both actors, Julie Delpy knew it could sometimes be a struggle as they waited for parts to come their way. “They were depressed at times because they didn’t have work,” she recently recalled by phone. “It was [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Missi Pyle Goes Viral with ‘Pandemic’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 6, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—If you’ve watched prime time TV over the past 20 years, odds are you’ve seen actress Missi Pyle in one show or another. Her list of credits includes guest shots on “Heroes,” “Mad About You,” “Boston Legal, “Frasier,” “The Sarah Silverman Program,” “Tw [...]

‘Demolition’ Man: Jake Gyllenhaal

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 5, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—In the drama “Demolition,” Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (“Brokeback Mountain”) plays a successful investment banker named Davis, who suffers a major breakdown after losing his wife in a tragic car accident and then has to rebuild himself from the grou [...]

Melissa McCarthy is ‘Boss’ in New Comedy

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 3, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hollywood comedies are filled with oppressive employers: from Dabney Coleman’s sexist and tyrannical Franklin M. Hart Jr. in “9 to 5,” to Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada” to all of the higher-ups in “Horrible Bosses,” to name [...]