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‘Houses’ Cast and Crew Take Viewers on a Scary Ride

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 23, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s fitting that an interview with the filmmakers and stars of the new “found footage” horror movie “The Houses October Built” takes place in an RV parked alongside a one-time mortuary repurposed as a Halloween haunt late one October night. Director [...]

Shailene Woodley Takes Adolescent Flight in ‘White Bird’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 21, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In just a few years, Shailene Woodley has become the queen of coming-of-age dramas. She’s played a surly teen that has to reconnect with her estranged father in “The Descendants.” She was the nice girl party-boy Miles Teller’s character falls for in “ [...]

‘Fluffy’ Movie, ‘Equestria Girls’ Hit Home Video

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|October 20, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Like a lot of comedians, Gabriel Iglesias’ stand up act is rooted in personal pain. Raised by his mom, the San Diego native grew up without a father. Over the years, he has struggled with weight issues and was diagnosed earlier this year with diabetes. Yet the [...]

A Colorful New Chapter for Zoe Saldana in ‘Book of Life’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 17, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the colorful, folkloric, Latin-infused animated feature “The Book of Life,” Zoe Saldana provides the voice of Maria, a beautiful villager who has captured the charms of two men: Manolo and Joaquin. When two spirits take sides in the outcome of the [...]

Miles Teller Marches to the Beat of His Own Drum in ‘Whiplash’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 15, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Miles Teller likens “Whiplash,” the drama in which he plays a jazz drummer student who engages in a battle of wills with his hypercritical teacher, played by J.K. Simmons, to a boxing movie. “There are just these two guys going head to head with [...]

James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan Reconnect in ‘Best of Me’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 13, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan play a star-crossed couple that rekindles their love affair 20 years after they went their separate ways in the romantic drama “The Best of Me,” the latest weeper based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. The drama, set in [...]

Logan Lerman Discovers War is Hell in ‘Fury’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 13, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In David Ayer’s gritty and realistic war drama “Fury,” Logan Lerman plays a young recruit who has entered the army towards the end of the World War II hoping to ride out the conflict in a cushy desk job but winds up assigned to active duty behind enem [...]

Spielberg Collection, Murdoch Mysteries and WWII on Home Video

DVD Features By Angela Dawson|October 13, 2014 |0

From a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Fans of Steven Spielberg films can get eight of the Academy Award winning director’s most memorable films on Blu-ray in a box set Tuesday, Oct. 14. “Duel,” his 1971 classic starring Dennis Weaver, 1974’s Goldie Hawn starrer “Sugarland Express,” “1941,” sta [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Disney Channel Alum Bella Thorne Plays Prissy Girlfriend in ‘Bad Day’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 8, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—For three years, Bella Thorne was best known for her role as CeCe on Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up!” in which she played a dyslexic dancer. Dyslexic in real life, playing the character wasn’t too much of a stretch. Yet the determined 16-year-old hasn’ [...]

Sarah Gadon Tells All About ‘Dracula’ Origins Drama

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 8, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Sarah Gadon had one request when she was cast in the role of Mirena, the fanged one’s wife, in “Dracula Untold.” “No corsets,” she begged the film’s costume designer Ngila Dickson. She’d had her fill of the restrictive garment while filming “Belle,” a [...]