Garish ‘Gatsby’ Less Than Great

Film ReviewsReviews By Angela Dawson|May 9, 2013 |0
Garish ‘Gatsby’ Less Than Great
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Classic literature goes to candyland in this crazily colorful fever-dream fantasy version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel. Director Baz Luhrmann has transformed the author’s noirishly bitter jazz-age period piece into a brazenly bizar [...]
Cruise Soars in Stylish ‘Oblivion’

Cruise Soars in Stylish ‘Oblivion’

Film ReviewsReviews By James Dawson|April 15, 2013 |0
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Oblivion,” the second film by “TRON: Legacy” director Joseph Kosinski, offers a stylishly imaginative mix of science-fiction action, psychological suspense and grown-up romance. The plot has a few holes, and the movie’s [...]
‘Room 237’ Worth Checking Out

‘Room 237’ Worth Checking Out

Film ReviewsReviews By Angela Dawson|March 28, 2013 |0
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The fascinating “Room 237” provides a forum for the oddball opinions of five fanatics who have taken a little too much of a shine to “The Shining.” Although it becomes hard not to wonder if some of the rambling interviewees ac [...]
‘This is 40’ Now Available on Blu-ray

‘This is 40’ Now Available on Blu-ray

Film ReviewsReviews By Angela Dawson|March 18, 2013 |0
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features There’s a moment in Judd Apatow’s comedy “This is 40,” the spinoff to “Knocked Up,” where Leslie Mann (Apatow’s real life wife and the stalwart star of the movie) is driving home, having just confirmed she is pregnant again at the ripe old age of 39. Upset with [...]
‘Parker’ More Runny Than Hard Boiled

‘Parker’ More Runny Than Hard Boiled

Film ReviewsReviews By Angela Dawson|January 24, 2013 |0
NOTE TO EDITORS: Reviews are embargoed for publication until Friday, January 25 By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The first thing we see career criminal Parker (Jason Statham) do in the movie bearing his one-word name is park a car, which seems a bit on the nose. Unfortunately, the r [...]