By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It may be hard to believe but Robert Redford and Paul Newman only appeared in two films: “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “The Sting.” But the two legendary actors will forever be linked even now that Newman is gone. For a period, the two acto [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Before there was Johnny Knoxville and his crew of daredevil “Jackass” friends there was motorcyclist Evel Knievel, who rode his bike over a row of 13 double-decker buses in England, leapt over the Caesar’s Palace fountain in Las Vegas and even tried t [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actor Owen Wilson is best known for his comedy roles, but he returns to the action genre as an everyman who gets caught in a Southeast Asian rebel-led uprising in “No Escape.” Written and directed by sibling filmmakers John and Drew Dowdle (best known [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The New Zealand crime drama “Harry” is available Tuesday, Aug. 25 on Blu-ray and DVD. Oscar Kightley (“Sione’s Wedding”) and Sam Neill (“Jurassic Park”) star in the riveting drama from down under. Akin to the popular British TV series “Prime Suspect,” “Cracker” [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Every time you think this terrifyingly suspenseful family-on-the-run thriller can’t possibly get more intense, it ups the ante with even scarier strangers-in-a-strange-land perils. The result is the most relentlessly edge-of-your-seat-exciting [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Fans of the drama series “Mad Men” watched Kiernan Shipka grow from a sassy schoolgirl to an independent-minded teenager during the seven seasons it aired on AMC. The acclaimed cable series also encompassed nine years of Shipka’s life. But like her st [...]