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Avengers Reassemble for ‘Age of Ultron’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 27, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features BURBANK, Calif.—A press conference to promote the new superhero flick “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” seems more like pep rally than entertainment newsgathering event. No fewer than 13 cast members and filmmakers have assembled on the stage of a huge movie auditoriu [...]

L.A. ‘Vice,’ Two Lucans, ‘Tricks’ and ‘Taken’ finale on Home Video

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|April 27, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “Inherent Vice,” the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel is available in a Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital HD Tuesday, April 28. Things start to unravel for private eye Doc Sportello (A [...]

Michael Douglas Plays Cat and Mouse with Jeremy Irvine in ‘Reach’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 24, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Imagine if Gordon Gekko went on a big game hunt out in the Mojave Desert, accidentally got into some trouble and didn’t want to go to jail, then you would have something of the set up of “Beyond the Reach.” Academy Award winner Michael Douglas (“ [...]

Rose Byrne is Twice the Fun with ‘Adult Beginners,’ ‘Spy’

Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 22, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Busy Aussie actress Rose Byrne has two new films coming out. Both are comedies but are very different, not only budget-wise, but also in tone. Up first is Ross Katz’s heartfelt comedy “Adult Beginners,” in which she and comedic actor Nick Kroll play e [...]

Alex Garland Makes Directorial Debut with ‘Ex Machina’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 20, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Screenwriter Alex Garland (“28 Days Later,” “The Beach”) makes his feature film directorial debut with the sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina,” starring Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson and Alicia Vikander. A reclusive Internet zillionai [...]

Russell Crowe Makes Directorial Debut with ‘Diviner’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 20, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Russell Crowe arrives for an interview to promote his new film “The Water Diviner,” in which he not only stars but also makes his feature film directorial debut. The proud owner of an Australian rugby team, he begins handing hats commemorating his tea [...]

The ‘Age’ of Blake Lively

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 20, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Former “Gossip Girl” star and new mom Blake Lively plays a woman who never ages in the fantasy romantic drama “The Age of Adaline.” We’re not talking Botox or plastic surgery, but some mysterious act of magic. Looking radiant in a Spring-like floral d [...]

‘Unfriended’ Ushers in Screencast Movies

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 14, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Fifteen years ago, the “found footage” storytelling technique used in “The Blair Witch Project” changed the way many horror movies were made. The next evolution in the genre may be one started by Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (“Night Watch,” “Da [...]

Sondheim, More ‘Iron Fists,’ a Vigilante and the end of ‘War’ on Home Video

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|April 13, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “The Stephen Sondheim Collection,” a DVD compilation of the composer’s greatest works is available on DVD Tuesday, April 14. The collection includes stage performances of “Into the Woods,” “Company,” “Sunday in the Park With George,” “Follies In Concert,” [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Messina Goes Behind the Lens with ‘Alex of Venice’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 12, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ubiquitous actor Chris Messina (“Argo,” “The Mindy Project”) steps behind the camera for his feature film directorial debut with the heartwarming drama “Alex of Venice.” The Long Island native says directing a film seemed a logical next step from acti [...]