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Supercharged ‘Victor Frankenstein’ Amps Up Classic Tale

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|November 24, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Scottish filmmaker Paul McGuigan directed the pilot episode of the BBC’s witty and hyper-kinetic “Sherlock,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, so it’s no surprise that his new big screen production “Victor Frankenstein” recalls that earlier effort in both style an [...]

Give Thanks for ‘Shaun the Sheep,’ ‘Wild Ride,’ ‘Horror,’ More

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News By Angela Dawson|November 23, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “Shaun the Sheep Movie,” an animated adventure for the whole family, arrives in a Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus Digital HD) and DVD (plus Digital) on Tuesday, Nov. 24 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Released in theaters over the summer, the Aardman-produced featu [...]

‘Games’ Over for ‘Mockingjay Part 2’

Film Reviews Reviews By James Dawson|November 19, 2015 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Miserable, boring and grim, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2” ends the franchise on a disappointing note by completing its four-film descent from garishly outrageous charm to dismal videogame tedium. Where 2012’s “The Hung [...]

‘Man from U.N.C.L.E.’, ‘We Are Your Friends,’ More on Home Video

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News Reviews By Angela Dawson|November 16, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “The Man from U.N.C.L.E,” which already is available on DVD and Digital HD, will be available for the first time Tuesday, Nov. 17 in a Blu-ray Combo Pack. Henry Cavill (“Man of Steel”) and Armie Hammer (“The Social Network”) play rival spies Napoleon Solo and I [...]

Robert Englund Leads Horror Night in ‘The Funhouse Massacre’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|November 13, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Though Halloween is over, it doesn’t mean the thrills and chills of the holiday have to end, thanks to “The Funhouse Massacre.” The low-budget dark comedy/horror movie arrives in theaters on the next best creepy day, Friday, Nov. 13. The offbeat film, written b [...]

Nicolas Cage, Michelle Dockery and Dick Van Dyke on Home Video

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News By Angela Dawson|November 9, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The suspense horror movie “Pay the Ghost,” is available Tuesday, Nov. 10 on Blu-ray and DVD. Directed by Uli Edel (“The Baader Meinhof Complex”) from a screenplay by Dan Kay, who adapted it from the Tim Lebbon novel, it stars Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage ( [...]

‘Peanuts’ Pop in 3D

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|November 5, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features More than 65 years after Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts” debuted as a comic strip, which subsequently became a series of animated TV specials, Charlie Brown and the gang now make their big screen debut in the animated 3D adventure “The Peanuts Movie.” Peanuts fan [...]

Bond’s Been Better Than ‘Spectre’

Film Reviews Reviews By James Dawson|November 3, 2015 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Nobody did it better than actor Daniel Craig, director Sam Mendes and screenwriters John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade with 2012’s “Skyfall,” a strong contender for the best James Bond film ever made. That same team (plus write [...]

‘Wayward Pines,’ ‘San Andreas,’ ‘Adventure Time’ and More on Home Video

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 12, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The first season of Fox’s sci-fi TV drama “Wayward Pines” is available on DVD Tuesday, Oct. 13. Executive produced by Academy Award nominee M. Night Shyamalan (“The Sixth Sense”), and based on Blake Crouch’s bestselling books, the story begins with a car crash [...]

Ingenious ‘Steve Jobs’ Updates Biopic OS

Film Reviews Reviews By James Dawson|October 7, 2015 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The ingenious “Steve Jobs” updates the standard biopic operating system by stripping its subject’s life story down to backstage encounters at only three crucial events (with a few flashbacks): the 1984 launch of the Macintosh [...]