By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features CANNES—Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman is getting positive notices for his performance in Noah Baumbach’s dysfunctional family dramedy “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).” The Netflix Original film premiered here May 21 and will air on the streamin [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The 15-year gap between 2001’s “Zoolander” and this similarly silly sequel is addressed in a quick catch-up that gets points for aging the characters in real time, but which also adds melancholy to the mirth. The movie has several g [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features To celebrate the release of “Night at the Museum: The Secret of the Tomb” on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is hosting a Family Movie Night this weekend. To make the night even more fun-filled, they have created activity s [...]
By Front Row Features Ben Stiller directs and stars as the low-key title character in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” available Tuesday, April 15 on Blu-ray and DVD. Aside from his name, the only thing the character has in common with the one from James Thurber’s original short story is a tend [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Here’s the secret that apparently eluded the makers of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”: Eliminating the elaborate CGI fantasies that serve as its main advertising draw actually would have improved the movie. This well photographed [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Watch” turns out to be less than the sum of its slowly moving parts. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill bring enough star power to this suburban sci-fi silliness that it should have been a comedy Rolex. Instead, the relatively [...]