By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Tom Shadyac has been making movie audiences laugh for more than a quarter-century. From “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” to “The Nutty Professor” to “Bruce Almighty” and its sequel “Evan Almighty,” the Virginia native has carved out a niche of making popu [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Filmmaker Bart Freundlich met his future wife more than a quarter-century ago on the set of his first feature film “The Myth of Fingerprints.” The pair had a son and a daughter and eventually made their relationship official with a wedding in 2003. Th [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror storyteller-with-a-soul Guillermo del Toro recalls roaming through a San Antonio bookstore as a young teenager and coming across Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” illustrated by Stephen Gammell. “The cover illustration was s [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Movies The Curse of La Llorona If you don’t know her name, you will when “The Curse of La Llorona” arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital. From New Line Cinema and producer James Wan, “The Curse of La Llorona” brings the iconic Latin American lege [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Dwayne Johnson reprises his hulking lawman Luke Hobbs in the action film “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.” As the agent of America’s Diplomatic Security Service, the wrestler-turned-action star describes himself as “an ice-cold can of who [...]