By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Sony Pictures decided to invite only TV reporters and a few select print/online outlets to a lavish premiere of the Ron Howard-directed “Inferno,” the next chapter of Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” saga. So instead of posting an interview with two-time Oscar winne [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville partner in the action-packed buddy comedy “Skiptrace,” arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD), DVD (plus Digital HD) and Digital HD Tuesday Oct. 25 from Lionsgate. Chan plays straight-laced Hong Kong detective Benny Chan who meet [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—‘Star Wars’ actress Daisy Ridley provides the narration for filmmaker Otto Bell’s inspiring girl-power documentary “The Eagle Huntress.” Aisholpan, a native of Mongolia, is much like Ridley’s onscreen persona Rey in the new “Star Wars” films. Th [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The doctor is out…of this world! Marvel’s mystical “Doctor Strange,” who originated in 1960s comics by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, is a surrealistically spell-spinning sorcerer who employs magic instead of might to fend [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Junho Chung’s beautifully drawn animated version of “The Little Match Girl,” which was broadcast in 2003 on Los Angeles’ then PBS affiliate KCET’s “Fine Line” program devoted to student films but never made a [...]