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Charlize Theron Brings Female Power to Actioner ‘Mad Max’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 13, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—South African beauty Charlize Theron has played her share of strong, self-reliant female characters in her acting career, from a fearless coal miner standing up to the status quo in “North Country” to evil queen in “Snow White and the Huntsman” to ser [...]

George Clooney Tackles ‘Has-Been’ Character in ‘Tomorrowland’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 13, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—George Clooney plays a reclusive inventor who goes on an out-of-this world journey into the future with a teenager and a mysterious little girl in Disney’s “Tomorrowland.” Inspired in part by the Disney theme parks’ futuristic land of the same name, t [...]

Zoe Kravitz Is the Toast of ‘Mad Max” Remake

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 11, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Zoe Kravitz is Hollywood royalty. Her parents are musician and sometime actor Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet. (Her stepdad is action star Jason Momoa.) The 26-year-old Los Angeles native has chosen to follow in her beautiful mom’s footsteps, and [...]

British Model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Talks ‘Mad Max’ Redux

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 11, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A Victoria’s Secret supermodel with her own fashion and fragrance lines (Rosie for Autograph), stunning Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is also an emerging actress. She made her feature debut in Michael Bay’s 2011 action drama “Transformers: Dark of the Moo [...]

Elizabeth Banks Wears Two Hats in ‘Pitch Perfect’ Sequel

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 11, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Audiences may know Elizabeth Banks as the color-coordinated and well-coifed chaperone Effie Trinket in “The Hunger Games” films or as Jack Donaghy’s peripatetic wife on the sitcom “30 Rock.” Having directed a few short films and a segment of the 2013 [...]

James Marsden on the Dark Side of Handsome

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 5, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—James Marsden is a ridiculously attractive actor who plays a ridiculously attractive actor whom Jack Black’s character feels he needs to lure back to their small town high school reunion in the dark comedy “The D Train.” As Oliver, Marsden, 41, plays [...]

Sofia Vergara Spices Up Buddy Comedy in ‘Hot Pursuit’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 4, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Alluring South American beauty Sofia Vergara knows comedy. She stars on the hit TV series “Modern Family,” and she’s known for playing sexy comedic roles in films like “Chasing Papi,” “Fading Gigolo” and “Chef.” She now co-stars in her first buddy com [...]

Reese Witherspoon: Small Cop

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 4, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon (“Election,” “Walk the Line”) returns to her comedy roots in the female buddy comedy “Hot Pursuit.” The petite blond, blue-eyed actress, who was born in New Orleans and grew up in Nashville, is paired with sultry and sau [...]

Jack Black Takes a Wild Ride on the ‘D Train’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 4, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Funnyman Jack Black takes on a darker character in the black comedy “The D Train.” He plays Dan Landsman, a guy who’s never been cool. He married his high school sweetheart and works at a consulting firm in his small town where the boss is averse to n [...]

Costner, Egyptian Mystery and Romantic British Classic on Home Video

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|May 4, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Oscar winning filmmaker and actor Kevin Costner (“Dances With Wolves,” “Field of Dreams”) grew up in ethnically diverse Compton and other Southern California communities, where simmering racial and ethnic tensions sometimes boiled to the surface. So when he rea [...]