By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—John C. Reilly is a thoroughly committed actor—even when he is only voicing an animated character as he does in Disney’s “Wreck-It Ralph.” While some actors regard doing voiceover animation as something akin to going on vacation, Reilly threw himself [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Report HOLLYWOOD—Carrie Underwood, P!nk and Pitbull will be among the performers at “The 40th Anniversary American Music Awards,” the show’s producers, Dick Clark Productions announced Tuesday. They join previously announced performers, Taylor Swift, Nicki Min [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winner Denzel Washington has played a number of heroic characters over the years like anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and poet Melvin Tolson to villainous character like dirty cop Alonzo Harris and notorious heroin dealer Frank Lucas, as well [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The dazzling, multi-plotline “Cloud Atlas” is a shuffle-play cinematic carousel with a half-dozen horses of very different colors. Each of the movie’s six connected stories within its 500-year timeline is glimpsed briefly and destin [...]
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,” [...]