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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 [...]

Max Thieriot: Playing Norma Bates’ Other Son

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|April 15, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film “Psycho” told the disturbing story of a son’s deadly obsession with his mother. The modern day TV series “Bates Motel,” which airs on A&E, is essentially a prequel to that 1960 horror classic, featuring a teenage No [...]

‘Unfriended’ Ushers in Screencast Movies

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 14, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Fifteen years ago, the “found footage” storytelling technique used in “The Blair Witch Project” changed the way many horror movies were made. The next evolution in the genre may be one started by Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (“Night Watch,” “Da [...]

Sondheim, More ‘Iron Fists,’ a Vigilante and the end of ‘War’ on Home Video

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|April 13, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “The Stephen Sondheim Collection,” a DVD compilation of the composer’s greatest works is available on DVD Tuesday, April 14. The collection includes stage performances of “Into the Woods,” “Company,” “Sunday in the Park With George,” “Follies In Concert,” [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Messina Goes Behind the Lens with ‘Alex of Venice’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 12, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ubiquitous actor Chris Messina (“Argo,” “The Mindy Project”) steps behind the camera for his feature film directorial debut with the heartwarming drama “Alex of Venice.” The Long Island native says directing a film seemed a logical next step from acti [...]

Jon Hamm & Co. Reflect on ‘Mad Men’

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|April 6, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON and JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—They say all good things must come to an end, and so it is with AMC’s award-winning drama series “Mad Men,” which began airing the last seven episodes of the seventh—and final—season last Sunday night. The brainchild of writer-director [...]

James D. Cooper Sheds Light on Who Managers in ‘Lambert & Stamp’

Features Film Features Music Features By Angela Dawson|April 6, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Few film documentaries tell the story of documentary filmmakers. The story of Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, British filmmakers who in the Swingin’ Sixties approached an up-and-coming band called The High Numbers (which became The Who) to illustrate the [...]

Simon Pegg Plays Hit Man Times ‘Three’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|April 3, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Simon Pegg is known for playing lovable reluctant antiheroes like the titular zombie killer in “Shaun of the Dead,” starship engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in the rebooted “Star Trek” franchise and helpful techie Benji in the “Mission: Impossible” [...]

‘Furious 7’ Drives Home Action, Heart

Features Film Reviews Reviews By Lynn Barker|April 2, 2015 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Fans of the “Fast and Furious” film series will love the impossible stunts and tear up at a touching tribute to late actor Paul Walker in “Furious 7.” As Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) always says, “This is about family” and, this time, it really is. A baddie’s relativ [...]

Police Guitarist Andy Summers Offers Arresting Portrait of a Band

Features Film Features Music Features By Angela Dawson|March 30, 2015 |1

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A fit middle-aged man with sun-bleached blond hair and a tan strolls into a tony Beverly Hills hotel ballroom dressed mostly in black. His open jacket reveals a bright pink t-shirt emblazoned with the words “surfer” in lower-case white letters. While [...]