By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Sandy Powell scoured period magazines, old photos and historic footage for inspiration in designing costumes for Todd Haynes’ 1950s-set romantic drama “Carol.” The three-time Academy Award winning costume designer says it was a fun challenge to pull t [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Elisabeth Moss continues to show her versatility in the political drama “Truth,” in which she plays a professor/researcher who helps a “60 Minutes II” producer uncover some damaging information on then-Presidential candidate George W. Bush. However, d [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Lily James knows a little something about playing beautiful, elegant characters from a bygone era. After all, she stars in the smash hit Julian Fellowes-penned TV series “Downton Abbey,” as Lady Rose MacClare Aldridge. She now sets forth into the fant [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Gerard Butler lends his voice once again as the elder Viking leader Stoick the Vast in the action-adventure animated feature, “How to Train Your Dragon 2.” On the heels of the 2010 film, which introduced audiences to Stoick, leader of a proud dragon-f [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As with his “Ocean’s” trilogy, “Leatherheads,” and “Good Night, and Good Luck,” George Clooney leads a band of misfits into what appears to be a hopeless, or at least a long shot situation, and manages to beat the odds in the self-directed “Monuments [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett (“The Aviator”) plays a former New York socialite who has fallen on hard times in Woody Allen’s dramedy “Blue Jasmine.” The juicy role, in which the Australian actress plays the title character Jasmine Fren [...]