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Reese Witherspoon: Small Cop

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 4, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon (“Election,” “Walk the Line”) returns to her comedy roots in the female buddy comedy “Hot Pursuit.” The petite blond, blue-eyed actress, who was born in New Orleans and grew up in Nashville, is paired with sultry and sau [...]

Jack Black Takes a Wild Ride on the ‘D Train’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 4, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Funnyman Jack Black takes on a darker character in the black comedy “The D Train.” He plays Dan Landsman, a guy who’s never been cool. He married his high school sweetheart and works at a consulting firm in his small town where the boss is averse to n [...]

Costner, Egyptian Mystery and Romantic British Classic on Home Video

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|May 4, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Oscar winning filmmaker and actor Kevin Costner (“Dances With Wolves,” “Field of Dreams”) grew up in ethnically diverse Compton and other Southern California communities, where simmering racial and ethnic tensions sometimes boiled to the surface. So when he rea [...]

Avengers Reassemble for ‘Age of Ultron’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 27, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features BURBANK, Calif.—A press conference to promote the new superhero flick “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” seems more like pep rally than entertainment newsgathering event. No fewer than 13 cast members and filmmakers have assembled on the stage of a huge movie auditoriu [...]

L.A. ‘Vice,’ Two Lucans, ‘Tricks’ and ‘Taken’ finale on Home Video

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|April 27, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “Inherent Vice,” the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel is available in a Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital HD Tuesday, April 28. Things start to unravel for private eye Doc Sportello (A [...]

Michael Douglas Plays Cat and Mouse with Jeremy Irvine in ‘Reach’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 24, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Imagine if Gordon Gekko went on a big game hunt out in the Mojave Desert, accidentally got into some trouble and didn’t want to go to jail, then you would have something of the set up of “Beyond the Reach.” Academy Award winner Michael Douglas (“ [...]

Rose Byrne is Twice the Fun with ‘Adult Beginners,’ ‘Spy’

Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 22, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Busy Aussie actress Rose Byrne has two new films coming out. Both are comedies but are very different, not only budget-wise, but also in tone. Up first is Ross Katz’s heartfelt comedy “Adult Beginners,” in which she and comedic actor Nick Kroll play e [...]

Alex Garland Makes Directorial Debut with ‘Ex Machina’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 20, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Screenwriter Alex Garland (“28 Days Later,” “The Beach”) makes his feature film directorial debut with the sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina,” starring Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson and Alicia Vikander. A reclusive Internet zillionai [...]

Russell Crowe Makes Directorial Debut with ‘Diviner’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 20, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Russell Crowe arrives for an interview to promote his new film “The Water Diviner,” in which he not only stars but also makes his feature film directorial debut. The proud owner of an Australian rugby team, he begins handing hats commemorating his tea [...]

The ‘Age’ of Blake Lively

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 20, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Former “Gossip Girl” star and new mom Blake Lively plays a woman who never ages in the fantasy romantic drama “The Age of Adaline.” We’re not talking Botox or plastic surgery, but some mysterious act of magic. Looking radiant in a Spring-like floral d [...]