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Booth Tackles the Bard in ‘Romeo & Juliet’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 7, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Douglas Booth follows a 400-year acting tradition, playing a lovesick Verona boy who’s love for a local girl is verboten thanks to a longstanding family feud. The young lovebirds would rather die than be held apart by their respective families’ hatred [...]

Tom Hanks Takes the Helm in ‘Captain Phillips’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 6, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Tom Hanks is used to playing heroes onscreen but the two-time Oscar winner doesn’t consider himself a hero in real life. In the action thriller “Captain Phillips,” the beloved actor plays Richard Phillips, a merchant ship captain who saved his crew fr [...]

Second Chapter of ‘American Horror Story’ Hits Home Video

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|October 6, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—The complete second season of the hit FX TV series “American Horror Story” is available on home video. The second season revolves around a terrifying asylum run by the iron-fisted Sister Jude (Emmy winner Jessica Lange). The sins of the past haunt the [...]

Denton Answers a Higher Calling in ‘Grace Unplugged’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 2, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—James Denton played hunky plumber Mike Delfino for eight seasons on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives.” Since the long-running series wrapped, Denton has opted for the simpler life in a Minnesota. He has returned to doing theater, where he began his career [...]

Sandra Bullock Made Space Connection Through Family

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 1, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In preparation for her role in “Gravity,” in which she plays a scientist on a space mission that goes awry, Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side”) believed she needed to speak to someone who actually had been in space and had experienc [...]

‘Room 237’ Doc Shines on SundanceNOW

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 27, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s been more than 30 years since the release of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” yet this horror film, adapted from a Stephen King novel, continues to fascinate audiences. For some, “The Shining,” which starred Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall as [...]

Hader & Co. Load Up in ‘Cloudy 2’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 26, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Flint, “Baby” Brent, Sam, Earl and the rest of food world gang return for seconds in “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.” The gastronomical animated action comedy picks up just moments after the 2009 original ended, with inventor Flint and friends h [...]

Paltrow is ‘Sharing’ Her Views on Sex Addiction, Sci-Fi

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 18, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In “Thanks for Sharing,” Gwyneth Paltrow plays a perfectionist and fitness freak that falls for a man who seems unable or unwilling to get physically romantic. She soon discovers the reason for her guy’s intimacy issues are because he is a recovering [...]

Chris Hemsworth: Life in the Fast Lane

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 17, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Chris Hemsworth seems to have an affinity for four letter movie titles. Before his star-making turn as the Norse thunder god in “Thor,” he starred opposite Sean Bean in 2010’s independent crime thriller “Ca$h.” He now plays legendary British Formula 1 [...]

Sax Man Vincent Ingala Burns Up the Jazz Charts

Film Features By Michael Hixon|September 16, 2013 |0

By MICHAEL HIXON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Saxophonist Vincent Ingala hasn’t even reached his 21st birthday, but he already has released two hit albums and a No. 1 single on the Billboard charts, while performing with some of the top jazz musicians in the country. “There’s nothing wrong with s [...]