By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Albuquerque, N.M.—He’s one of the most recognizable Native American faces in entertainment. Actor Wes Studi, 69, originally from Oklahoma, is of Cherokee descent. In 1992’s “The Last of the Mohicans” celebrating its 25th anniversary with a screening at the Albuqu [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Albuquerque, N.M.—Oscar winner Jeff Bridges and his pal of 40 years, Oscar and Grammy award winning producer, composer and musician T-Bone Burnett, believe in the fusion of music and film. At the Albuquerque Film & Music Experience, the duo told a packed hous [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic If you thought the trailers for the new underwater thriller “47 Meters Down” made the film look like a made-for-TV release, you weren’t entirely wrong. The movie was scheduled to go straight to DVD before its original distributor, Dimension Films, so [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—“I’m a fan first. I still feel like a kid,” says 52-year-old rock guitarist, music producer, writer, composer and now film producer Stevie Salas at the Albuquerque Film and Music Experience, where he was presented the 2017 Visionary Award. Salas [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic Part “Bridesmaids,” part “Very Bad Things,” Columbia Pictures’ “Rough Night” never quite reaches the comedic highs of the first film or the twistedness of the latter, but it still delivers plenty of laughs. While the story is nothing too original, th [...]