By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—You could call director Michael Apted a pinch hitter. When fellow filmmaker Curtis Hanson had to drop out of making the surf movie “Chasing Mavericks” just four weeks into filming, Apted, whose credits range for the James Bond actioner “The World is N [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Ambitious mid-level drug dealer Frank suffers through a very bad week in the gritty London-noir crime drama “Pusher.” The movie is a showcase for quietly dynamic British actor Richard Coyle (“W.E.,” “5 Days of War,” [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Gerard Butler looks tanned as he arrives for an interview to talk about his new surfing movie “Chasing Mavericks.”  But the Scottish heartthrob insists the source of his tropical coloring isn’t the result of soaking in the great outdoors. “Tanning bed [...]

Hollywood – As the excitement mounts for the next installment of the Iron Man franchise, Walt Disney and Marvel Studios releases the “Iron Man 3” poster teaser. In Marvel’s “Iron Man 3,” Tony Stark/Iron Man finds his world reduced to rubble by a malevolent enemy and must use his [...]