By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—Michael Fassbender stars in the romantic drama “The Light Between Oceans.” Based on the 2012 novel by M.L. Stedman, the story centers on an Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife (Alicia Vikander) who adopt a young castaway but then disc [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features To celebrate the 25th year since its theatrical release, “The Commitments” is available on Blu-ray in a special anniversary edition Tuesday Aug. 30, from RLJ Entertainment. Based on a book by Roddy Doyle (“The Van”), the screenplay was co-written by Doyle, in c [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, Jonathan Jakubowicz admired boxing legend Roberto Duran, who hails from Panama. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that one day he would make a biographical film about the famed pugilist, nicknamed Manos de Piedra (or H [...]

By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features While at first glance this year’s “The Nice Guys” and 2015’s private-eye caper “Inherent Vice” might have some similarities (both are Warner Bros. films, both stories take place in Los Angeles in the 1970s, both follow down-on-their-luck private investigat [...]