By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic As far as dark comedies go, 2003’s “Bad Santa” is arguably one of Hollywood’s best. Now, 13 years later, “Bad Santa 2” finally hits theaters and the question fans want to know is, was it worth the wait? The film reunites “Bad Santa’s” three leading m [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “Hands of Stone” will be available on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday Nov. 22. The drama follows the life of Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez), the Panamanian boxer who made his professional debut in 1968 as a 16 year-old and retired in 2002 at the age of 50. In June 1980, [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Miss Sloane” is not only an irritatingly simplistic movie that thinks it’s smart, but one that takes place in some strange alternate reality where politicians have shame, lobbyists have consciences and a hunky hooker has a heart of [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Opetaia Foa’i grew up about as far away from Hollywood as you can get—a small village in Apia in Western Samoa. But now he, along with “Hamilton” creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda and Grammy winner Mark Mancina (“The Lion King,” “Tarzan”), have coll [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Todd Phillips may be best known for wacky comedies (“The Hangover” trilogy, “Old School,” “Road Trip”), but the writer-director gets a little more serious with his latest feature film, “War Dogs,” now available on DVD (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, MSRP: $28. [...]