By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Skippy-ki-yay this franchise milker. Bruce Willis’ fifth “Die Hard” outing as unstoppable New York cop John McClane is so dreary, badly directed and wrongheadedly dumb it sucks nearly all the life out of the 25-year-old series. The  [...]

NOTE TO EDITORS: Reviews are embargoed for publication until Friday, January 25 By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The first thing we see career criminal Parker (Jason Statham) do in the movie bearing his one-word name is park a car, which seems a bit on the nose. Unfortunately, the r [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Brutal, silly, offensive, poignant, amateurishly cheap and unexpectedly elaborate, the 26 short films that make up “The ABCs of Death” have nearly nothing in common except the obvious. In all of these tiny tales, shot in 15 countries by a [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/writer David Chase’s affectionate ode to a fictional 1960s garage band is the first thing the creator of HBO’s “The Sopranos” has done since that landmark series went off the air five years ago. A teen-centered coming [...]