Front Row Features originally ran this interview with Larry Hagman and the cast of “Dallas” on June 11, 2012. In memory of Mr. Hagman, we are running it again. By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—More than 20 years have passed since “Dallas,” one of TV’s most popular se [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Hitchcock” mixes some Hollywood hokum with its history, but what’s surprising is how enjoyable a seasoning of campy soap-opera makes this offbeat concoction. Watching director Alfred Hitchcock’s insecurity, paranoia, alcoholi [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bradley Cooper may not be the first person you think of when casting a mentally unstable and emotionally vulnerable individual forced to move in with his elderly parents (played by Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver) after completing a court-ordered inst [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Isla Fisher is best known for her memorable performance as Vince Vaughn’s wacky love interest in “The Wedding Crashers.” She has starred in several other adult-oriented comedies such as “Bachelorette,” “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” “Definitely, Maybe [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director Joe Wright’s audaciously theatrical take on “Anna Karenina” turns what William Faulkner regarded as the best novel ever written into a flamboyantly Baz Luhrmann-esque “Moulin Russia.” Although there are no songs [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the sci-fi thriller “Citadel,” a young widower has to protect his baby from would-be predators that roam his housing project. You’d think he’d simply run away, but Tommy Cowley (played by Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard) is agoraphobic, so he’s trapped [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Martin Scorsese has Leonardo DiCaprio. Ridley Scott has Russell Crowe. Director Joe Wright’s go-to actor is the lovely and versatile Keira Knightley. The director first cast Knightley as the Jane Austen heroine Elizabeth Bennet in his 2005 drama “Prid [...]
A Front Row Features Staff Report HOLLYWOOD—Paramount Pictures will release the first nine minutes of J.J. Abrams’ eagerly awaited “Star Trek Into Darkness” exclusively in IMAX 3D months prior to the film’s official release in May 2013. This first-look at the movie will play in approximately 500 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ashley Greene is stuck, literally. If only she had her “Twilight” character Alice’s precognition ability. She would have seen that she would get stuck in the Big Apple during hurricane Sandy, and then face a blizzard so she couldn’t fly to her a [...]