By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Pedro Almodovar is one of those rare directors whose Spanish-language films are warmly welcomed outside his home country, even in the subtitle-averse U.S. “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!” “All About My Mother,” “T [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, Calif.—It’s easy to see where the Pixar animators gathered some of their ideas for their newest film, “Monsters University.” They simply had to look around the campus-like grounds of their pioneering animation house just 45 minutes from San Francisc [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Perhaps best known as the director who managed to botch the second Daniel Craig 007 outing (“Quantum of Solace”) after “Casino Royale” had reinvigorated the James Bond franchise, Marc Forster does an even worse job at the helm [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman (“The Hours”), Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode star in the suspense thriller “Stoker,” which comes out on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday. Directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook (“Oldboy”), “Stoker” tells [...]