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Duvall, Thornton Reunite in ‘The Judge’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 7, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In “The Judge,” Billy Bob Thornton (“Sling Blade”) plays a prosecutor who is out to convince a small town jury that a revered judge, played by Robert Duvall (“Tender Mercies,” “The Godfather” trilogy) of 42 years has committed murder by intentionally [...]

Adventure Time, The Mentalist, Space Station 76 and Ponies on Home Video

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|October 6, 2014 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Cartoon Network unveils “Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season,” on Tuesday, Oct. 7, on Blu-ray and DVD. The two-disc DVD and single-disc Blu-ray features all 26 episodes from the series’ fourth season, plus extensive exclusive bonus material. The highl [...]

Jeremy Renner Plays Investigative Reporter in ‘Kill The Messenger’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 3, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—You’d be hard-pressed to find another actor involved in as many Hollywood blockbuster franchises as two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Hurt Locker,” “The Town”). The native Californian not only has a recurring role as archer superhero Hawkeye [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Music Producer Danny Bramson Brought ’60s Sound to Hendrix Biopic

Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 3, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In a climactic scene in the Jimi Hendrix biopic “Jimi: All Is By My Side,” the talented guitarist (played by Outkast’s Andre Benjamin), on the cusp of fame in June of 1967, opens a show at London’s Seville Theatre with a rendition of the Beatles “Sgt. [...]

Freddie Prinze Jr. Gets Rebellious in ‘Star Wars’ Animated Series

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|September 29, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Freddie Prinze Jr., who gives voice to space cowboy Kanan Jarrus in the new “Star Wars Rebels” animated TV series told co-star Tiya Sircar, who voices warrior firebrand Sabine Wren, that while his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar’s TV series “Buffy the Vamp [...]

Reese Witherspoon Sees ‘Good’ in Refugee Drama

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 29, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon (“Walk the Line”) has the kind of clout that can get a Hollywood studio to foot the bill to fly in film reporters from around the country here to Music City to speak to her about “The Good Lie,” an eye-opening dra [...]

A Chef, British TV and a Magic Cat on Home Video

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|September 27, 2014 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Audiences know Jon Favreau these days as the director of big budget blockbusters like the “Iron Man “ franchise and “Elf,” but he also is a pretty good actor. In “Chef,” arriving on DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday, he plays a disenchanted master chef who reignites h [...]

Andre Benjamin Inhabits Legendary Rocker in ‘Jimi: All Is By My Side’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 25, 2014 |0

****NOTE TO EDITORS: Foul language has been asterisked. You may want to edit accordingly.**** By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Musician/actor Andre Benjamin a.k.a. Andre 3000, returns to the big screen playing legendary guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix in “Jimi: All Is By My Side.” [...]

Denzel Washington Gets Candid with ‘The Equalizer’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 24, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features TORONTO—Oscar winner Denzel Washington and his “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua collaborate again on their newest action movie “The Equalizer,” based on the TV series that aired in the mid- to late ‘80s. Washington, 59, takes on the role of Robert McCall, [...]

Sir Ben Kingsley Builds Another Baddie for ‘Boxtrolls’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 23, 2014 |0

***NOTE TO EDITORS: Kingsley uses the word “damned.” You may want to edit for your publication.*** By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When Sir Ben Kingsley arrived at the studio to record his lines as the villainous Archibald Snatcher for the animated feature “The Boxtrolls [...]