By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Annihilation” may be more good-looking than good, but this mostly somber SF drama includes enough stunning scenery and mind-trip moments to be a must-see despite any pacing or plot problems. Imagine an Earthbound mash-up of H.R. Giger’s “Alien” prod [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The heartwarming drama “Same Kind of Different as Me” arrives on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday Feb. 20, from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The title also is now available on digital formats. Based on The New York Times bestseller and recipient of the Dove Founda [...]
By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD-As the year of the dog descends upon the world, Universal Studios celebrates the Chinese New Year with Po, Tigress and Mr. Ping of “Kung Fu Panda” along with the minions and a mandarin speaking Megatron ringing in the new year from Feb [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After delivering dead-on performances depicting pioneering African-American icons of the 20th century—ballplayer Jackie Robinson, vocalist James Brown and justice Thurgood Marshall—actor Chadwick Boseman dons the suit of a fictional superhero in “Blac [...]
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 [...]