By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Johnny Depp’s Tonto basically is Jack Sparrow with more face paint and a dead crow on his head in this tongue-in-cheek retelling of “The Lone Ranger,” while Armie Hammer’s title character is so pureheartedly Dudley Do-Rightish [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA FE, N.M.—As a youngster growing up in Kentucky, Johnny Depp would watch reruns of the TV series “The Lone Ranger” in black and white and remembers feeling “perturbed” with the depiction of Tonto (as played by Native American actor Jay Silverheels) as the  [...]

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It was a homecoming of sorts for Myles Pollard and Sam Worthington as they came together to produce and star in “Drift,” a film based on a pair of Australian surfers/entrepreneurs who revolutionized the surf scene by taking their produc [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Steve Carell fans must feel like pigs in mud. Not only did they get their wish and see him return as Michael Scott this past spring in the series finale of the “The Office,” they also saw him as a Siegfried-like Las Vegas magician in the big screen co [...]