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‘Shameless,’ ‘Bone Tomahawk’ and ‘Hitman’ on Home Video

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News Reviews By Angela Dawson|December 29, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The Gallagher clan is back in the fifth season of Showtime’s popular series “Shameless,” which is set for release on DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday Dec. 29 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Titled “Shameless: The Complete Fifth Season,” it features all 12 episodes [...]

‘Pan,’ ‘Transporter Refueled,’ ‘Nasty Baby,’ More on Home Video

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News Reviews By Angela Dawson|December 19, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Audiences will discover how Peter Pan got to Neverland when “Pan” arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack Tuesday Dec. 22, from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Directed by Joe Wright (“Atonement”), the live-action feature presents a wholly original adventure about the b [...]

‘Hateful Eight’ Scores 9 Out of 10

Film Reviews News Reviews By James Dawson|December 16, 2015 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The oddest thing about director/writer Quentin Tarantino’s wild and wicked new western “The Hateful Eight” is how unnecessary all of its lily-gilding aspects are. It’s a dialog-driven, amusingly tongue-in-cheek and sometimes i [...]

Raunchy ‘Sisters’ Semi-Succeeds Thanks to Tina Fey, Amy Poehler

Film Reviews News Reviews By Lynn Barker|December 16, 2015 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features “Sisters” provides a great blend of family drama, raunchy, but still funny physical humor and creative verbal barbs delivered with their usual chemistry by talented duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. When 30-something Ellis sisters Kate (Tina Fey) and Maura (Amy Poehl [...]

Ridley Shines in Revitalized ‘Star Wars’

Film Reviews News Reviews By James Dawson|December 16, 2015 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic As Han Solo himself puts it in the everything-old-is-wonderfully-new-again “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “The girl knows her stuff.” The female in question is new character Rey, a desert-planet salvage trader turned resistan [...]

Seven is the Charm for ‘Doc Martin’ on Blu-ray and DVD

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News Reviews By Angela Dawson|December 6, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Debuting on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday, Dec. 8, “Doc Martin Series 7,” the acclaimed British TV dramedy starring Martin Clunes as a tactless, self-centered and uptight physician in a quirky seaside Cornwall town. The series also features Caroline Catz (“Murder in [...]

‘Mistress America,’ Zombies, Roger Waters, More on Home Video

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News By Angela Dawson|November 30, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The acclaimed screwball comedy “Mistress America,” is available Tuesday, Dec. 1 in a Blu-ray Combo Pack with Digital HD. Tracy (Lola Kirke) is a lonely college freshman in New York, having neither the exciting university experience nor the glamorous metropolita [...]

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 [...]