By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Franka Potente has upped the ante this season in the FX crime drama “The Bridge. She plays a shunned Mennonite named Eleanor Nacht, who has many secrets, including the fact that she is involved with upper echelons of the Mexican drug cartel. The serie [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Megan Fox is best known for her role as Shia LaBeouf’s girlfriend Mikaela Banes in the first two “Transformers” movies. After a very public falling out with the blockbuster franchise producer Michael Bay, the two apparently have patched things up beca [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Screenwriter John Swetnam is on top of the world. Two of his screenplays have been turned into feature films that will be released this Friday (August 8): Warner Bros’ tornado movie “Into the Storm” and Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment’s 3D dance [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” Dame Helen Mirren plays the snooty proprietress of a Michelin-starred restaurant in a quaint French village. The imperious widow’s calculable world is turned upside when an Indian family moves in across the street and op [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The miraculously good “Calvary,” about a steadfastly moral Irish priest (Brendan Gleeson) who is threatened by a bitter molestation victim that he will be murdered in exactly one week, manages to be both a genuinely moving religious alleg [...]