By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actors frequently lament the challenge of finding juicy roles that they can sink their teeth into. That elusive desirable role is only compounded as they age. “You read a lot of ‘grunters,’” grumbles Oscar winner Martin Landau, who remains an in-deman [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Acclaimed British actress Helen Mirren has played all sorts of royalty, not to mention a noted police detective, a mastermind criminal and quite a few Shakespeare characters. The versatile actress now plays a British colonel, who has to make a moral d [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Four years after Jennifer Lawrence first appeared on the big screen as Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games,” Lionsgate’s critically acclaimed fantasy action series based on Suzanne Collins’ best-selling book trilogy comes to a rousing resolution in “The Hunge [...]

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features In “London Has Fallen,” sequel to the 2013 box office hit “Olympus Has Fallen,” a lot of the cast returns to face a bigger, more bombastic, larger-scale crisis as a key terrorist blows up heads of state attending a funeral in London. This time it’s beefy secret s [...]