By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features “Lucy,” writer/director Luc Besson’s female-empowered sci-fi tale of an average girl turned mega-brainiac, is available now on DVD and Blu-ray. This mix of think-fest and gangster action/drama is uneven but is worth a watch. Extras, although sparse, are enjoyable [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features The second of the superhero films focusing on the World War II hero is out for you Tuesday, Sept. 9, to take home. We check out “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” This action-packed yet character-driven superhero adventure brings back Chris Evans as Steve Rog [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic As the mentally-enhanced and mega-powerful main character of director/writer Luc Besson’s outrageously entertaining “Lucy,” Scarlett Johansson makes the badass Black Widow character she plays in Marvel’s superhero movies look [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The main problem with “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” isn’t that this sequel to 2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger” misguidedly shifts the costumed comic-book superhero into high-body-count political [...]
By Angela Dawson Front Row Features Two new DVD/Blu-ray releases to look for as the year winds down to a close are “Don Jon,” a comedic love triangle starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson and Internet porn, and an offbeat revenge western called “Sweetwater,” starring Jason Isaacs, Ed [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Writer/director Spike Jonze’s thoroughly modern romance “Her” is one of the most thought-provoking films of the year, raising intriguing questions about what constitutes not only love but life itself. The most pertinent here is whet [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Hitchcock” mixes some Hollywood hokum with its history, but what’s surprising is how enjoyable a seasoning of campy soap-opera makes this offbeat concoction. Watching director Alfred Hitchcock’s insecurity, paranoia, alcoholi [...]