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Bret McKenzie Scribbles New Tunes for Kermit & Co.

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 20, 2014 |0

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 [...]

Shailene Woodley Joins Hollywood Heroines Faction with ‘Divergent’

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Momoa, Henderson Star in ‘Red Road’

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|February 26, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jason Momoa and Martin Henderson play men on opposites side of the law on the new Sundance Channel series “The Red Road,” premiering Feb. 27 at 9 p.m. Having filmed six hour-long episodes together just outside of Atlanta (standing in for New York/New [...]

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 [...]