By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Although calling it dreadful would be too-easy overkill, “Dredd” is surprisingly dreary for a comic-book action flick. Set almost entirely in a massive 200-story concrete slum, the movie plays like a violent but not terribly involving vid [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Clint Eastwood is back in grumpy old “Gran Torino” mode as a cigar-chomping baseball scout who is losing his eyesight in the strictly minor league “Trouble With the Curve.” Never an actor with much depth, the chair-chastising  [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” is brilliant, beautiful, often unsettling and emotionally devastating. Forget the media shorthand that shortchanges the film by describing it as a fictionalized biography of Scient [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Dark Knight Rises” costars Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman never appear onscreen together in “Lawless,” Oldman shows up in only three scenes of the Prohibition-era drama and their characters couldn’t be more different. Bu [...]