By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Get into the spirit of Spring with film and TV show releases now available for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray. DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your Dragon” is kicking off the Year of the Dragon with the DVD release Tuesday, March 25, of “Dragons: Defend [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—The entire Muppets gang returns to the big screen for “Muppets Most Wanted.” Returning along with them is Bret McKenzie, the original songwriter and music supervisor, who previously served in the same capacity with the 2011 box office hit “The Muppets [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A teenage girl in a future dystopia is required by society to train to fight but eventually realizes the leaders are corrupt and dangerous, which inspires her to rebel against authority. The story is based on a series of popular young adult novels. Th [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kurt Russell is a Hollywood action icon. Having established characters like Snake Plissken in the “Escape” franchise to RJ MacReady in “The Thing,” Russell adds yet another swaggering antihero to his credits in the form of Crunch Calhoun in the art he [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Filmmaker Scott Waugh, whose action-packed street-racing thriller “Need for Speed” opens Friday, knows a little something about action movies. A second generation stunt man—his father, Fred Waugh was the man behind the mask on “The Amazing Spider-Man” [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In Wes Anderson’s playfully whimsical caper “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” Jeff Goldblum plays deputy Vilmos Kovacs, a family attorney with a Sigmund Freud-type beard and mustache. That is fitting because like the famed psychologist’s theories, much of h [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—On the heels of his commercially successful coastal New England-set comedy “Moonrise Kingdom,” filmmaker Wes Anderson’s ventures far across the pond to Eastern Europe for his newest comedy adventure, “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” The film jumps around t [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As the Simpsons characters were introduced in short segments on “The Tracey Ullman Show,” Mr. Peabody and Sherman were characters introduced on the animated series “Rocky and his Friends” and “The Bullwinkle Show,” produced by Jay Ward in the late 195 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Though the follow up to the hit 2007 swords-and-sandals epic “300” is a stylish, hyper-realistic war movie with lots of men wielding swords, decapitating their enemy most gruesomely in meager uniforms that show off their sweaty pecs, it’s the fairer s [...]