By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hailee Steinfeld has worked almost non-stop since she made her debut in Joel and Ethan Coens’ 2010 Western “True Grit,” in which she earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting performance. The native Angeleno has since grown up on screen, and now w [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jon M. Chu is best known for directing the dance-filled “Step Up” films along with the “Justin Bieber Believe” rise-to-fame documentary. The Palo Alto, Calif.-born filmmaker now changes his focus to something a little more magical in the globetrotting [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Christian Bale and Casey Affleck play brothers struggling to survive in a dying Pennsylvania steel town, who face an even bigger threat when one of the siblings crosses a local crime boss (played by Woody Harrelson). Bale plays Russell Baze, a hardwor [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson play a pair of turkeys that travel back to 1621 to try and prevent their species from becoming the main course in the annual Thanksgiving tradition in the animated comedy “Free Birds.” Both Texas natives, they came aboa [...]
*****Release date is Friday October 12, and reviews are embargoed until October 11. ***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/writer Martin McDonagh’s crazy crime comedy “Seven Psychopaths” is more of a screwball farce than his darkly brilliant 2008 “In [...]