By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ethan Hawke stars as the father in Richard Linklater’s family drama “Boyhood.” The film is particularly notable because it was shot over the course of 12 years, and centers on the story of 6-year-old Mason (Ellar Coltrane) through changes in his life [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Action star Jason Momoa makes his directorial debut with “Road to Paloma,” a gritty road drama he co-wrote and stars in that is reminiscent of classic ’70 films like “Five Easy Pieces” and “Easy Rider.” Momoa, 34, best known for his roles on “Game of [...]
By a FRONT ROW FEATURES STAFF REPORTER Front Row Features Arnold Schwarzenegger (“Expendables 2,” the “Terminator” series) stars as the leader of an elite DEA task force whose members are targeted by a mysterious killer in “Sabotage,” an action thriller arriving on Digital HD Tuesday, July [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As the U.S. grapples with the recent influx of predominantly underage refugees from Central America at the southern border, the FX network’s “The Bridge,” a TV drama about law enforcement officers on both sides of the border dealing with crime, corrup [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Veteran stage and film star Ed Harris appears late in Bong Joon Ho’s nightmarish fantasy drama “Snowpiercer.” He plays the enigmatic Wilford, the mysterious and much-feared engineer of a train racing across a frozen landscape after an apocalyptic even [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Former trial attorney Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert enjoyed 20 unforgettable years married to noted film critic Roger Ebert. Inseparable, especially after Roger was stricken with cancer in 2002, their love story would make a beautiful movie. And, indeed, it [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—With her star-making turn in “Bridesmaids,” an ongoing successful TV comedy series, “Mike & Molly” and a hit buddy comedy “Heat” under her belt, comedian Melissa McCarthy teams up with Oscar winner Susan Sarandon in another rib-tickler, “Tammy.” T [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress/model Olivia Munn plays the wife of a New York police sergeant (played by Australian hunk Eric Bana) who gets caught up in the world of demonic possession while investigating a series of crimes in the Bronx in “Deliver Us From Evil.” The horro [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Though it was widely reported last fall that four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris and “Breaking Bad”’s Giancarlo Esposito would be co-starring in an historic film about abolitionists John Brown and Frederick Douglass, respectively, it turns out that actor Paul Gia [...]