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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]