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Kurt Russell Steals the Picture in ‘Art of the Steal’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 12, 2014 |0

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 [...]

Scott Waugh Pays Homage to Dad with ‘Need for Speed’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 11, 2014 |0

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” [...]

Jeff Goldblum Checks in at ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 11, 2014 |0

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 [...]

Anderson Creates Grand ‘Budapest Hotel’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 7, 2014 |0

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 [...]

Mr. Peabody and Sherman Travel to 21st Century

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 5, 2014 |0

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 [...]

Green, Headey Provide Girl Power in ‘Rise of an Empire’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 4, 2014 |0

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 [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Box Set Commemorates Mellotronic Man Mike Pinder

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|February 24, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Growing up in Birmingham, England during and just after World War II, Mike Pinder would steal away to a wooden box in the backyard where he would lay down and stare up at the moon and the stars, imagining what it would be like to travel to different w [...]

‘Spartans’ March to Blu-ray

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|February 24, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features With the imminent theatrical release of “300: Rise of an Empire,” the sequel to the hit 2006 swords-and-sandals epic, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is releasing for the first time a Blu-ray edition of “The 300 Spartans.” The 1962 historic epic, direc [...]

Quincy Jones Recalls His Mentor in ‘Keep On’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|February 22, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Music impresario Quincy Jones holds the record as the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time with a total of 79 nods and 27 wins. Steeped in the world of jazz and pop, he has worked with and known all the greats. Among his notable achievements, he p [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Joely Richardson Returns to the Big Screen

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|February 12, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After six seasons of playing the long-suffering wife of a workaholic Miami plastic surgeon on FX’s sexy drama “Nip/Tuck,” Joely Richardson decided it was time to return to her theater roots. Though she, admittedly, was a little afraid of getting back [...]