By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Lake Bell has made no secret about her love for the world of voiceover acting. The first feature film she directed, wrote and starred in was 2013’s “In a World…,” where she played a voiceover artist who competes against her father for a coveted gig. S [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Among the less destructive events that followed 2012’s Hurricane Sandy was a power blackout that lasted two or three days in parts of Manhattan. New Yorkers actually had to communicate face-to-face rather than via text or emails. Some even resorted to [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Faith and compassion prevail in the faith-based drama, “Joseph & Mary” arriving on DVD and Digital HD Tuesday July 5 from Cinedigm. Starring Kevin Sorbo (“Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”) and Lara Jean Chorostecki (“The Masked Saint”), the film from direc [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It takes a special kind of woman that can capture the heart of a man raised by gorillas. Jane, as played by rising star Margot Robbie in the live-action, effects-laden “The Legend of Tarzan,” is just such a woman. Though Jane has been played by a mult [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Alexander Skarsgard joins the ranks of notable Hollywood actors including Jock Mahoney, Johnny Weissmuller, Ron Ely and Christopher Lambert who have portrayed the legendary jungle hero Tarzan on the silver screen. The star of the new action-adventure [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A speech impediment as a child may have led BAFTA and Oscar winner Mark Rylance (best supporting actor for “Bridge of Spies”) to become an actor. “I couldn’t be understood by anyone until I was six,” Rylance revealed during a recent interview. “I woul [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Todd Solondz’s films aren’t for everyone. A mixture of despair and humor, they often examine put-upon underdogs and seemingly normal people with deep flaws. His newest film, “Wiener-Dog,” may be one of his lighter satires—a story ostensibly about a da [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After years of working with various Hollywood movie studios, acclaimed director Steven Spielberg (ET, the Extra-terrestrial, Saving Private Ryan) finally links up Disney to create a fantasy family movie “The BFG.” The story is based on Roald Dahl’s 19 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Bleecker Street’s powerful drama “Eye in the Sky,” arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand Tuesday June 28, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Tackling an ethical dilemma in a thought-provoking suspenseful story, the gritty film stars Academy Award winn [...]