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Badfinger’s Joey Molland Releases New Solo Album

Features Film Features Music Features By Angela Dawson|December 13, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Joey Molland, best known for his work with the legendary English band Badfinger, has released his fourth solo album “Return To Memphis” on UK’s Gonzo Multimedia! The CD features 10 new tracks the singer-songwriter recorded at the world famous Royal St [...]

Peter Jackson Returns to Middle-earth with ‘Hobbit’ Sequel

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 12, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” hits theaters just in time for the holidays. The New Zealand filmmaker returns to Middle-earth with Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and his band of dwarf companions on their quest to reclaim the Lon [...]

A Sweet 16 for ‘The Simpsons’

News TV Features By Angela Dawson|December 6, 2013 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Just in time for holiday shopping, the 16th season of “The Simpsons,” has arrived on DVD and Blu-ray. This season originally ran on Fox from November 2004 through May of 2005. Professor Frink, Springfield’s beaver-toothed, slightly muddled mad scientist char [...]

Just a Spoonful of Emma Thompson

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 5, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Emma Thompson knows how to make an entrance. As the renowned British actress arrives for a press conference in the ballroom of a tony Beverly Hills hotel to promote her new Disney movie “Saving Mr. Banks,” she climbs over the dais to her seat rather t [...]

Bale, Affleck Generate Heat in ‘Furnace’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 30, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Christian Bale and Casey Affleck play brothers struggling to survive in a dying Pennsylvania steel town, who face an even bigger threat when one of the siblings crosses a local crime boss (played by Woody Harrelson). Bale plays Russell Baze, a hardwor [...]

Bruce Dern Enlivens ‘Nebraska’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 20, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bruce Dern has been a workhorse character actor throughout his career, which has spanned five decades and more than 80 films as well as dozens of guest starring roles on TV. He’s primarily known for playing offbeat characters, heroic and villainous, a [...]

EXCLUSIVE: A ‘Dear’ Look at Calvin & Hobbes

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 20, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Calvin & Hobbes, a comic strip featuring an adventuresome and imaginative boy and his beloved toy tiger, began appearing in newspapers in 1985, and quickly became one of the most popular strips of all time. It ran only 10 years before its creator, [...]

‘The Wolverine’ Unleashed in Extended Edition

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|November 19, 2013 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter HOLLYWOOD—“The Wolverine” Unleashed Extended Edition debuts on Digital HD today and on Blu-ray and DVD on Dec. 3. It features an extended unrated cut with more intense action than the theatrical release did earlier this year. Hugh Jackman appears as the icon [...]

William Shatner ‘Ponders’ His Feelings in Song

Features Film Features By Michael Hixon|November 19, 2013 |0

By MICHAEL HIXON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—William Shatner is 82, yet the sci-fi icon is showing no signs of slowing down. After more than five decades in the entertainment industry, he is as active as ever, from acting to performing his one-man show. The original James T. Kirk now has returne [...]

Jennifer Lawrence On Fire in ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jennifer Lawrence gets emotional as she recalls a “Hunger Games” fan she met on the set while shooting the movie’s sequel “Catching Fire.” “There was a girl who was an extra and she was covered in scars—she’d been burned—and I remember her coming up t [...]