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 [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Skippy-ki-yay this franchise milker. Bruce Willis’ fifth “Die Hard” outing as unstoppable New York cop John McClane is so dreary, badly directed and wrongheadedly dumb it sucks nearly all the life out of the 25-year-old series. The  [...]

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 [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Brutal, silly, offensive, poignant, amateurishly cheap and unexpectedly elaborate, the 26 short films that make up “The ABCs of Death” have nearly nothing in common except the obvious. In all of these tiny tales, shot in 15 countries by a [...]