By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—No one is as beloved in popular culture right now as entertainer, media mogul and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey. So popular is the former talk show hostess that a grassroots campaign arose a few weeks ago to draft her to run for President in 2020. Winf [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Marvel Studios’ “Thor: Ragnarok,” the God of Thunder’s third installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was a global hit, hammering out $845 million at the global box office. Now the colorful cosmic adventure, loaded with action, humor, drama and spectacle, [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—With a quiet, unassuming manner and lean bookish appearance, Shawn Christensen could pass for just another aspiring writer or musician here in the City of Angels. But the thirtysomething New York native already is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker (2 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Former child star Logan Lerman tackles his most demanding role to date in the drama “The Vanishing of Sidney Hall,” co-written and directed by Academy Award winner Shawn Christensen (writer/director of the 2012 short film “Curfew”). Now 26, the Los A [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Before the newly rebooted “Tomb Raider” hits the big screen starring Alicia Vikander, fans of the original filmed adaptation starring Angelina Jolie might want to revisit the original “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider—The Cradle of Life,” a [...]