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Animated Adventure More Adequate Than ‘Epic’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|May 25, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Any studio cocky enough to call a movie “Epic” without putting something extra special on the screen is just begging for “epic fail” comments from unimpressed critics. Although this beautifully animated offering from director [...]

Terrorist-Hunting ‘Star Trek’ Goes Dark

Film Reviews Reviews By James Dawson|May 14, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The entertaining if unsubtle “Star Trek Into Darkness” is an extended “Zero Dark Star Trek” metaphor about terrorism, military madness and the cost of sacrificing ideals for the sake of lawless revenge. That’s because th [...]

Gerwig Goes for Broke in ‘Frances Ha’

Film Reviews Reviews By James Dawson|May 13, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Greta Gerwig is irresistible as the sweetly sincere and endearingly pathetic title character of this thoroughly charming comedy from director Noah Baumbach (“Margot at the Wedding,” “Greenberg,” “The Squid and the Whale& [...]

‘Fast & Furious 6’ Is Frantic Fun

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|May 13, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Buckle up and hold on tight for the wildest thrill ride of the summer. This amazingly over-the-top action/soap hybrid is so much crazy fun it’s irresistible. Full of jaw-dropping stunts, gleefully preposterous plot twists and adrenaline-rush ca [...]

Garish ‘Gatsby’ Less Than Great

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|May 9, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Classic literature goes to candyland in this crazily colorful fever-dream fantasy version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel. Director Baz Luhrmann has transformed the author’s noirishly bitter jazz-age period piece into a brazenly bizar [...]

Franchise Free-Fall for Leaden ‘Iron Man 3’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|April 30, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Like Tony Stark’s Malibu mansion, the Iron Man movie franchise goes over a cliff with this disappointing third outing. The first “Iron Man” wasn’t perfect, and “Iron Man 2” had even bigger problems. But even though [...]

Adult Film Actresses Get Real in ‘Aroused’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|April 25, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/photographer Deborah Anderson gets 16 adult-video actresses to bare more than their bodies in the emotionally revealing documentary “Aroused.” With attitudes ranging from arrogance to introspection, the performers discuss their u [...]

Cruise Soars in Stylish ‘Oblivion’

Film Reviews Reviews By James Dawson|April 15, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Oblivion,” the second film by “TRON: Legacy” director Joseph Kosinski, offers a stylishly imaginative mix of science-fiction action, psychological suspense and grown-up romance. The plot has a few holes, and the movie’s [...]

‘Room 237’ Worth Checking Out

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|March 28, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The fascinating “Room 237” provides a forum for the oddball opinions of five fanatics who have taken a little too much of a shine to “The Shining.” Although it becomes hard not to wonder if some of the rambling interviewees ac [...]

‘This is 40’ Now Available on Blu-ray

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|March 18, 2013 |0

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 [...]