Byrne Lights Up ‘I Give It a Year’
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The ridiculously lovely Rose Byrne lights up the brilliantly British “I Give It a Year,” a mish-mash of ditzy and edgy humor with more charm and wickedly winning wordplay than the average chick flick. Part of this tartly offbeat rom-com&# [...]
Jackman Wows in ‘Wolverine’
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic A dying Japanese zillionaire in “The Wolverine” is shown lying on a shiny CGI platform made of upright metal rods that automatically conform to his every change in position. That high-tech bed of nails looks so ridiculously uncomfortable  [...]
Put ‘To Do’ on Must-See List
(NOTE TO EDITORS: DUE TO THE SEXUAL NATURE OF THE FILM, YOU MAY WANT TO DECIDE WHETHER TO USE WORDS SUCH AS “TEABAGGING” THAT ARE INCLUDED BELOW. WE HAVE TRIED TO AVOID USING ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE BUT OBVIOUSLY EACH OUTLET HAS ITS OWN STANDARDS. THE EMBARGOED HAS BEEN L [...]
‘RED 2’ Mugs and Misfires
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic More irritatingly obnoxious than all three of the winkingly self-satisfied “Ocean’s” movies rolled into one, the senior citizen star-cluster “RED 2” also seems as awkwardly redundant as a twice-told Alzheimer’s suf [...]
‘Pacific Rim’ Goes Big and Scores
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bigger definitely is better in the hugely entertaining “Pacific Rim,” a massive-scale mechanical-men vs. monsters blockbuster with a story as good as its special effects. Director/writer Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,&# [...]