By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Like so many other comedians, Gabriel Iglesias’ stand up act is rooted in personal pain. Raised by his mom, the San Diego native grew up without a father. Over the years, he has struggled with weight issues and recently was diagnosed with diabetes, an [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A dozen years after he had his breakthrough role in the Eli Roth horror flick “Cabin Fever,” Kentucky-born actor Joey Kern returns to the genre, this time stuck underground in a coal mine shaft rather than a remote rental in the woods. In the film, di [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—While Woody Allen’s new film, “Magic in the Moonlight” appears to be simply another European-set period romp starring dashing English actor Colin Firth and pretty ingénue Emma Stone, upon closer examination, the feature turns out to be a dissertation o [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Filmmaker Woody Allen was determined to have Colin Firth star in his ‘20s-set romantic comedy “Magic in the Moonlight,” even though the Oscar-winner was unavailable because he already was committed to do another project. Perhaps the Wood-man conjured [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kelly Noonan is an up and coming actress who is athletic, beautiful, smart (she graduated from magna cum laude from UCLA) and full of energy. She’s also full of surprises. Reached by phone on a recent weekday afternoon, she reveals she is on her way t [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Unlikely heroes are at the heart of two new family-friendly home video releases. New on Blu-ray and DVD is “Rio 2,” the worthy recent follow up to the hit 2011 animated comedy about two rare blue macaws from different worlds that find true love. Jesse Eisenb [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In his post “Lord of the Rings” career, Elijah Wood has occupied himself mostly by making quirky independent films and, for the past four years, starring in an offbeat cable comedy TV series called “Wilfred.” Now, in its fourth and final season, “Wilf [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON and JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Former “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe revealed Tuesday that he has not read J.K. Rowling’s new story involving an older version of the wizard he played in eight films, but he intends to do so soon. Speaking via satellite from New [...]