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Foxx, Hamm Roll with Action-Comedy ‘Baby Driver’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 28, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jamie Foxx and Jon Hamm aren’t just two actors that are equally adept at drama or comedy, they each have a strong work ethic that guides them through every project they do. The two co-star in Edgar Wright’s action comedy “Baby Driver,” about a getaway [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Miranda Cosgrove Returns for Another Round of ‘Despicable Me’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 27, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—The crazy thing about playing an animated character, especially one that is a child, is that she never grows older. Miranda Cosgrove, 24, reprises the character of Margo, a character more than a decade younger than herself, in the third installment of [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Timothy Spall on Playing Unionist Leader in ‘The Journey’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 22, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Timothy Spall remembers a time when he couldn’t walk the streets of Belfast without being very cautious. He was in the Northern Ireland capital attending a film festival some 30 years ago. To get to his hotel, he couldn’t walk through the front door. [...]

‘Wrecked’ Cast Ready for Season 2

Features News TV Features By Peter Gonzaga|June 20, 2017 |0

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features MARINA DEL REY, Calif.—In the TBS television series, “Wrecked,” a plane headed to Thailand crashes on a deserted island where the survivors must figure out how to stay alive as they hope and wait for a miracle rescue. Heading into the launch of their second [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Colm Meaney Revisits “The Troubles” Resolution in ‘The Journey’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 19, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—To his American fans, Colm Meaney will always be Transporter Chief Miles O’Brien of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” a role he carried over into “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.” But Meaney, who’s lived in the U.S. for three decades, began life in Dubli [...]

Native American Actor Wes Studi Revisits ‘Last of the Mohicans’

Features Film Features By Lynn Barker|June 18, 2017 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Albuquerque, N.M.—He’s one of the most recognizable Native American faces in entertainment. Actor Wes Studi, 69, originally from Oklahoma, is of Cherokee descent. In 1992’s “The Last of the Mohicans” celebrating its 25th anniversary with a screening at the Albuqu [...]

Jeff Bridges and T-Bone Burnett on the Fusion of Film and Music

Features Film Features Music Features By Lynn Barker|June 18, 2017 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Albuquerque, N.M.—Oscar winner Jeff Bridges and his pal of 40 years, Oscar and Grammy award winning producer, composer and musician T-Bone Burnett, believe in the fusion of music and film. At the Albuquerque Film & Music Experience, the duo told a packed hous [...]

Legendary Guitarist Stevie Salas Produces Doc Exploring Native American Influencers

Features Film Features Music Features By Lynn Barker|June 15, 2017 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—“I’m a fan first. I still feel like a kid,” says 52-year-old rock guitarist, music producer, writer, composer and now film producer Stevie Salas at the Albuquerque Film and Music Experience, where he was presented the 2017 Visionary Award. Salas [...]

Filmmaker Mark Gordon Explores Life of New Mexico Arts Luminary in Documentary

Features Film Features By Lynn Barker|June 14, 2017 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—It was a feisty woman in the early 20th century who made Taos the art and cultural center it is today. In the documentary “Awakening in Taos” we discover that Mabel Dodge Luhan escaped an eastern U.S. hotbed of male dominance to live in the Land [...]

Ali MacGraw’s ‘Awakening’

Features Film Features By Lynn Barker|June 14, 2017 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— “All that Hollywood ******** doesn’t cut it here. What a luxury!” Oscar nominee Ali MacGraw (“Love Story”) says before a packed house at the Albuquerque Film and Music Experience. MacGraw, now 78 and a resident of Tesuque, N.M. for the past qua [...]