By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—The entire Muppets gang returns to the big screen for “Muppets Most Wanted.” Returning along with them is Bret McKenzie, the original songwriter and music supervisor, who previously served in the same capacity with the 2011 box office hit “The Muppets [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A teenage girl in a future dystopia is required by society to train to fight but eventually realizes the leaders are corrupt and dangerous, which inspires her to rebel against authority. The story is based on a series of popular young adult novels. Th [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic As its title makes pretty obvious, director-writer Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac Vol. 1” has plenty of sex, some of it extremely explicit. What’s unexpected is how much humor and heart are included with the humping, making th [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kurt Russell is a Hollywood action icon. Having established characters like Snake Plissken in the “Escape” franchise to RJ MacReady in “The Thing,” Russell adds yet another swaggering antihero to his credits in the form of Crunch Calhoun in the art he [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Filmmaker Scott Waugh, whose action-packed street-racing thriller “Need for Speed” opens Friday, knows a little something about action movies. A second generation stunt man—his father, Fred Waugh was the man behind the mask on “The Amazing Spider-Man” [...]