By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ryan Reynolds plays the world’s best protection agent who is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy, one of the world’s most notorious hitmen (Samuel L. Jackson). As bodyguard Michael Bryce, he and hitman Darius Kincaid are thrown together [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—British actor Tom Hiddleston has carved a niche for himself in recent years, playing villains and antiheroes in Hollywood films. Most notably, he plays Thor’s jealous and destructive adoptive brother Loki in the Marvel superhero films—a role he is set [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Samuel L. Jackson is regarded as one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood, and it’s not simply because of the sheer number of films he makes. The ubiquitous performer has raked in more than $4.6 billion to date, making him one of the most bankab [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Action star Vin Diesel returns to the role of rogue spy in the action-packed “xXx: Return of Xander Cage.” Diesel heads an international cast that includes Hong Kong action stars Donnie Yen, Chinese born actor/rapper Kris Wu, Thai martial artist and a [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Wearing a wiry grey wig, white contact lenses and a dental appliance that gives him menacing pointy teeth, Samuel L. Jackson is almost unrecognizable as the villainous Barron in Tim Burton’s fantasy adventure “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.“ [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director Tim Burton returns to fantastic form with the imaginative and appealing “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.” It’s a more fabulous—as in “fable-like”—version of the Marvel Comics X-Men movies, but [...]