By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Action star Vin Diesel returns to the role of rogue spy in the action-packed “xXx: Return of Xander Cage.” Diesel heads an international cast that includes Hong Kong action stars Donnie Yen, Chinese born actor/rapper Kris Wu, Thai martial artist and a [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Up and coming actor Tye Sheridan played one of Brad Pitt’s sons in Terrence Malick’s hailed drama “The Tree of Life,” and subsequent starred opposite Nicolas Cage in David Gordon Green’s “Joe,” as an adolescent seeking refuge from an abusive parent, a [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Academy Award nominee Michael Keaton (“Birdman”) knew as much about McDonald’s Ray Kroc as the next guy. Widely regarded as the multinational fast food chain’s brilliant founder, Kroc started out a struggling restaurant equipment salesman who saw an o [...]
By JUDY SLOANE and ANGELA DAWSON HOLLYWOOD—In his two decades as an actor, Jude Law has played his share of heroes and villains. Now he rises to the level of the Holy See in the HBO miniseries “The Young Pope.” Not only is Law’s Pope Pius XIII young (by pope standards) but he also plays the
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By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Alex Gibney’s “Zero Days” arrives on DVD Tuesday Jan. 17. The documentary thriller delves into the type of warfare in a world without rules—cyber war. Gibney explores Stuxnet, self-replicating computer malware (known as a “worm” for its ability to burrow from c [...]