By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the upcoming “Mary Poppins Returns,” the long-anticipated sequel to the hit 1964 Disney musical, Emily Mortimer plays an all-grown-up Jane Banks. The Rob Marshall-directed sequel, which also stars Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Dick Van Dyke is set  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—While Marvel’s “Black Panther” superhero epic is being hailed as a historic achievement in popular cinema for bringing the first black superhero—the eponymous title character who also becomes the king of an under-the-radar highly advanced African coun [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Acclaimed filmmaker Nick Park has employed the painstaking process of stop-motion animation to bring his imaginative and humorous films to life ever since he was a teenager. Influenced by stop-motion animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen, the amiable and, [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “Blade of the Immortal,” the 100th film from acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Miike, cuts to DVD, Blu-ray, SteelBook, Digital HD Tuesday Feb. 13.  In this historic epic, Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battl [...]