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Fassbender Fascinates in Offbeat ‘Frank’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2014 |0

****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS FILM OPENS AUGUST 22 BUT THERE IS NO EMBARGO.**** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The irresistibly odd “Frank” is an unexpectedly endearing but sometimes dark character study revolving around an eccentric avant garde musician who constantly wea [...]

Talking Raccoon and Tree Save Smirky ‘Guardians’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2014 |0

*****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS REVIEW IS EMBARGOED FROM PUBLICATION UNTIL FRIDAY, AUGUST 1.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Guardians of the Galaxy” is the movie that non-fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” worried “The Avengers” would turn out [...]

Douglas, Keaton Not Enough to Save Predictable ‘And So It Goes’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2014 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Who knew? Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas make a cute couple. The Oscar winners’ first film together, Rob Reiner’s “And So It Goes,” sadly, is sweet but rambling as they play a couple struggling to move past lives as widow and widower, and put a romantic s [...]

‘Sex Tape’ Suffers From Too Many Gaps in the Humor

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 18, 2014 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Despite some enjoyable chemistry between them in director Jake Kasdan’s former semi-raunchy romp “Bad Teacher,” Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel have trouble keeping it up throughout “Sex Tape,” a rom-com film falling victim to a one-joke storyline that can’t sustain [...]

Gondry’s ‘Mood Indigo’ Hits Unexpected Notes

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 16, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/co-writer Michel Gondry’s dense and dazzling “Mood Indigo” is so outrageously overloaded with imaginative settings, fantastic situations, dreamlike dramatics and appealing animation that you’ll wish your French were b [...]

’22 Jump Street’ Makes Small Leap Forward as Sequel

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|June 11, 2014 |0

By LYNN BARKER Special to Front Row Features “22 Jump Street” is a little more scattered story-wise than “21 Jump Street” was, but it does show more heart as the bumbling undercover cop duo Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) have to examine their “bro” relationship and finally realiz [...]

Cruise and Blunt Suit Up for ‘Edge of Tomorrow’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|June 4, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Edge of Tomorrow,” an inventively clever mashup of “Starship Troopers” and “Groundhog Day,” is a just about perfect sci-fi adventure and a real showcase for stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Cruise is Major Willia [...]

MacFarlane’s ‘Million Ways to Die’ Western Spoof a Mixed Bag

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|May 29, 2014 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features The laughs in Seth MacFarlane’s western romp “A Million Ways to Die in the West” range from “bottom” feeding pooping in the street jokes to fun tribute fare as when MacFarlane’s hapless sheep rancher character Albert happens upon a barn where (SPOILER ALERT) “Bac [...]

Biggest and Best ‘X-Men’ Has More of Everything

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|May 22, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The action-packed and outrageously entertaining “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is right up there with Marvel’s “The Avengers” as one of the most thoroughly enjoyable superhero movies ever made. With a more interesting plot [...]

Eisenberg Brilliantly Bedeviled in ‘The Double’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|May 3, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/co-writer Richard Ayoade’s deliciously dark “The Double” is Fyodor Dostoevsky by way of David Fincher’s “Fight Club” and Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil.” Outrageously stylish, frequently unsettl [...]