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‘Glee’s’ Chris Colfer Singing a New Tune

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|January 10, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Chris Colfer is best known as the openly gay singing sensation Kurt Hummel on the hit Fox TV series “Glee.” But Colfer is more than just an Emmy award-winning actor with amazing pipes. He’s also a writer, with a growing list of credits to his name. At [...]

Josh Brolin Back on the Beat in ‘Gangster Squad’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|January 8, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It takes a brave soul to take on a Method actor like Sean Penn, but Josh Brolin was up for whatever the Oscar winner was ready to throw at him. Or, at least he thought he was. While shooting a scene for their new period drama “Gangster Squad,” Brolin [...]

Nothing is ‘Impossible’ For Maria Belon

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|January 3, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Maria Belon is more than just a tsunami survivor. She is a woman who has experienced a horrific tragedy and lived to tell the tale. Her story is the subject of Juan Antonio Bayona’s “The Impossible,” an emotional and riveting account of the 2004 tsuna [...]

John Krasinski’s Post ‘Office’ Career Looks Promising

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—John Krasinski is best known for playing the nice guy Jim Halpert on “The Office.” But with that popular series winding to a close with its ninth and final season, Krasinski, who is married to British actress Emily Blunt, is considering his next caree [...]

A New ‘Land’ for Matt Damon

Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 30, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Matt Damon arrives for an interview shorn of his golden locks. He explains that he recently had to reshoot some scenes for Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming sci-fi drama “Elysium.” Then he just kept it that way for another role in Terry Gilliam’s “The Zero Th [...]

Back to the Water for James Van Der Beek

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|December 27, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—James Van Der Beek made a name for himself as the title character in the hit 1990s TV teen drama “Dawson’s Creek.” He returns to high school in the heartwarming drama “Backwards,” now available on home video. Only this time, he plays Geoff, an athleti [...]

Crystal, Midler Find ‘Guidance’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 24, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Billy Crystal and Bette Midler have known each other for nearly 40 years but they’ve never worked together professionally until now. The two co-star in “Parental Guidance,” a comedy in which they play a husband and wife who are called upon to take car [...]

The Grandkids speak up on ‘Parental Guidance’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 22, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—How many 12-year-olds have had the opportunity to have Bette Midler and Billy Crystal sing Happy Birthday to them? That’s just what happened to up-and-coming actress Bailee Madison, who plays the granddaughter of the Divine M in the family comedy “Par [...]

New Mom Rosamund Pike Talks Cruise, ‘Reacher’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 21, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Rosamund Pike co-stars with Tom Cruise in the action thriller “Jack Reacher,” based on the popular Lee Child book series. Pike unknowingly was pregnant during filming, which created a bit of a challenge for both the British actress and the wardrobe de [...]

10 Best List: Favorite Films of 2012

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 20, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic No critic can see everything, but choosing my favorite of the more than 100 movies I reviewed this year was easy. Nothing came close to director/co-writer Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” a charmingly offbeat tale about two young [...]