By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features “Pandas” filmmaker Drew Fellman loves animals and has made several IMAX films documenting efforts to save those most endangered. His “Born to be Wild” delved into the lives of orphaned orangutans and elephants and his “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar” centered on th [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress Ashley Bell is best known for portraying a young woman possessed by the devil in the horror franchise “The Last Exorcism.” The native Angeleno confronts another type of evil, an atrocity against nature committed by man, in a documentary she pr [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Various attempts over the years to make a Hollywood studio feature film about the Armenian genocide have been thwarted, including an attempt by legendary producer Irving Thalberg to make a film about the subject in the 1930s. The U.S. State Department [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter HOLLYWOOD—“Dealt,” a remarkable new documentary chronicling the colorful life and career of famed “card mechanic” Richard Turner, is embracing new technology that allow its subject, who happens to be blind, and other members of the vision-impaired community [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Fans of the world’s most demonic doll are in for another blood-spattered treat as Chucky continues his reign of terror behind the locked doors of an insane asylum in “Cult of Chucky,” coming to Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and On Demand on Tuesday Oct. 3, from Univers [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ema Ryan Yamazaki grew up in Japan reading H.A. and Margret Rey’s “Curious George” books in her native language. As a child, she assumed the good little monkey who was always very curious was Japanese. Only later did she learn what a global phenomenon [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— “All that Hollywood ******** doesn’t cut it here. What a luxury!” Oscar nominee Ali MacGraw (“Love Story”) says before a packed house at the Albuquerque Film and Music Experience. MacGraw, now 78 and a resident of Tesuque, N.M. for the past qua [...]