By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A press conference for the highly anticipated “Thor: Ragnarok” begins to resemble an episode of “The Price is Right” game show, with press and bloggers assigned numbers to enter a hotel ballroom to interview—or at least gaze upon and record—cast membe [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The new “Director Approved” Criterion Collection edition of 1992’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” available as a single Blu-ray and a two-disc DVD, adds a whopping 90 minutes of expanded and deleted scenes plus other e [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Follow the intense journey as one mother shows how far she will go to save her child in the non-stop thrill ride, “Kidnap” on Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand Tuesday Oct. 31, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Produced by and starring Academy Award winning [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—The late Mother Teresa’s published private correspondence is proving to be a fount of source material for movies about nuns. There was 2014’s “The Letters,” that starred Juliet Stevenson as the beloved charity-driven nun who secretly harbors doubts ab [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Miles Teller, whose memorable turn as a budding drummer who suffers under a cruel and demanding instructor in 2014’s “Whiplash,” stars in two new films in which he plays unsung everyday heroes risking their lives in service to their community— “Only t [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Four years ago,19 members of the elite firefighting crew known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots lost their lives fighting the Yarnell Hill wildfire in western central Arizona. Only one member of the firefighting team survived, because he was assigned [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Like the woman she depicts in the screen adaptation of bestselling memoir “Same Kind of Different as Me,” Renee Zellweger realized several years ago she needed to make some big changes in her life if she was going to live it fulfilled. The Oscar winni [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features An innocent night of fun turns into a cruel game for survival when “Escape Room” arrives on DVD, Digital HD and On Demand Tuesday Oct. 17 from Lionsgate. The claustrophobic thriller filled to the brim with inventive terror stars Evan Williams (“Awkward,” “Degra [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s not often that a director has an opportunity to revisit a work in a different medium but that is just what has happened with Benedict Andrews, a veteran theater director who has brought the provocative play “Blackbird” to the big screen as his de [...]