By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Nasim Pedrad returns to TV in the new comedy series “Chad,” in which she plays a 14-year-old Persian-American boy. You read that right: the thirtysomething actress stars as an incoming high school freshman who  [...]

By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic Nearly 12 years to the day since “Superbad” was released in theaters, executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (“Pineapple Express”) have a new coming-of-age comedy hitting cineplexes—Universal Pictures’ “Good Boys.” While the premise i [...]

By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic If you’ve seen the trailers for the new Anne Hathaway/Rebel Wilson comedy “The Hustle” and feel like you’ve seen this movie before, you have. Twice, actually. A gender-swapped remake of the 1988 Michael Caine/Steve Martin comedy classic “Dirty Rotten [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A quarter-century ago, college student Will Packer decided to help his buddy, Rob Hardy, an aspiring director, make his first film. An electrical engineering major at Florida A&M, Packer knew nothing about filmmaking but soon found himself casting [...]