By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ludi Lin may be a Hollywood newbie with his first major role as Zack, the Black Ranger, in “Saban’s Power Rangers,” but acting is nothing new for him. While growing up in his native China, Lin would watch his mother perform in Chinese theater. Fro [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Audiences may know Elizabeth Banks as the color-coordinated and well-coifed chaperone Effie Trinket in “The Hunger Games” films or as Jack Donaghy’s peripatetic wife on the sitcom “30 Rock.” Having directed a few short films and a segment of the 2013 [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jennifer Lawrence gets emotional as she recalls a “Hunger Games” fan she met on the set while shooting the movie’s sequel “Catching Fire.” “There was a girl who was an extra and she was covered in scars—she’d been burned—and I remember her coming up t [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The two biggest problems with “People Like Us” are its meaninglessly generic title and a hopelessly contrived premise. The movie’s biggest asset is Elizabeth Banks, as the sexy but struggling single mother of a disrespectful semi-de [...]