By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Christian Bale remembers the first time he put on the Batman costume, he suddenly felt overwhelmed. He literally couldn’t breathe. “I thought, ‘oh, Chris (Nolan) has to recast,’ because the claustrophobia was just unbelievable,” the Welsh actor recall [...]
By MICHAEL HIXON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Cyril Neville is one of the founding members of the New Orleans’ Neville Brothers. Devon Allman’s father Gregg founded one of the quintessential Southern rock bands, The Allman Brothers. Sprinkle in some additional talent and you have the Royal Southe [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.—The bangin’ outdoor concert venue at Universal CityWalk got a one year anniversary treat when R&B singer turned movie star (“2 Fast 2 Furious” and the “Transformers” franchise) Tyrese Gibson (who simply goes by Tyrese) went back to his [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Blake Lively burst onto the Hollywood scene in 2005’s big screen adaptation of the perky young adult novel “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” She went out to become a household name playing Upper East Side socialite Serena Van Der Woodsen on “Gossip [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Savages” is an irresistibly over-the-top thriller about double-crossing drug lords that’s cool, complicated and the good kind of crazy. It’s also a real return to form for director/co-writer Oliver Stone, whose last outing wa [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Better in every way than the recent trilogy it reboots, “The Amazing Spider-Man” succeeds by boldly going forward into the comic-book character’s past. The epic-length 138-minute adventure not only updates the web-slinger’s or [...]