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EXCLUSIVE: Danny Boyle Takes Audiences on Another Trip in ‘T2 Trainspotting’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 19, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie are back. It’s been 20 years since “Trainspotting,” adapted from Irvine Welsh’s bestseller, arrived in theaters, introducing the world to these compulsive and impulsive young men from Edinburgh, Scotland. Though heroi [...]

Filmmaker, Composer and Cast Talk ‘Beauty and the Beast’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 15, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—An all-new live-action version of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” musical is set to arrive in theaters. Featuring an all-star cast that includes Emma Watson (the “Harry Potter” films), Dan Stevens (“Downton Abbey”), Luke Evans (“The Hobbit: The Desola [...]

Ludi Lin Lives Out Childhood Dream in ‘Saban’s Power Rangers’

Features Film Features By Peter Gonzaga|March 14, 2017 |0

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ludi Lin may be a Hollywood newbie with his first major role as Zack, the Black Ranger, in “Saban’s Power Rangers,” but acting is nothing new for him. While growing up in his native China, Lin would watch his mother perform in Chinese theater. Fro [...]

Whether It’s the Oscars or Defying Labels, Legendary Actress Shirley MacLaine Delivers ‘The Last Word’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 9, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Shirley MacLaine, the venerable Oscar winning actress (“Terms of Endearment”), bestselling author and possible reincarnate, was in the audience at the 2017 Academy Awards when her kid brother and fellow Oscar winner, Warren Beatty, got cau [...]

Kristen Stewart Reunites with French Filmmaker for Thriller ‘Personal Shopper’

Features Film Features By Peter Gonzaga|March 9, 2017 |0

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress Kristen Stewart and director Olivier Assayas are no strangers to one another. She starred in his 2014 drama “Clouds of Sils Maria,” in which Stewart garnered a Cesar Award (the equivalent of the French Oscar) for her performance in that fil [...]

Tom Hiddleston Surfaces as Heroic Tracker in ‘Kong: Skull Island’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 7, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—British actor Tom Hiddleston has carved a niche for himself in recent years, playing villains and antiheroes in Hollywood films. Most notably, he plays Thor’s jealous and destructive adoptive brother Loki in the Marvel superhero films—a role he is set [...]

Samuel L. Jackson Relives Childhood Fantasy Starring in ‘Kong: Skull Island’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 5, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Samuel L. Jackson is regarded as one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood, and it’s not simply because of the sheer number of films he makes. The ubiquitous performer has raked in more than $4.6 billion to date, making him one of the most bankab [...]

‘Moana’ Surfaces on Home Entertainment Loaded with Extras

DVD Features Features News By Angela Dawson|March 5, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Oscar-nominated “Moana,” the sweeping story of a spirited teenager who sets off on a daring adventure to save her people, sails to home video on Tuesday March 7. Starring newcomer Auli‘i Cravalho as the voice of brave an [...]

Tim McGraw Talks Faith and Forgiveness Themes in ‘The Shack’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 2, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Country singer/actor Tim McGraw has spoken at length about his troubled upbringing—being raised by a bipolar man whom he thought was his father and then accidentally discovering during his adolescence that his biological dad was former New York Mets p [...]

Filmmaker James Mangold Talks Taking X-Men Hero in Dark Direction

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|February 27, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Director James Mangold, who previously collaborated with Hugh Jackman on 2013’s “The Wolverine,” brings the Marvel antihero back to the X-Men universe with “Logan,” a dark, gritty and emotional finale for that storyline. The native New Yorker spoke ab [...]