By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic This disastrously botched mutation of Paul Verhoeven’s classic 1987 “RoboCop” (and its not-so-classic sequels) is so thoroughly disappointing that fans of “Alien” should be very, very worried. That’s because “ [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The action-packed and outrageously entertaining “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is right up there with Marvel’s “The Avengers” as one of the most thoroughly enjoyable superhero movies ever made. With a more interesting plot [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK— In “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” veteran actor Patrick Stewart (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”) and James McAvoy (“Atonement,” “The Last King of Scotland”) reprise their roles as Professor Charles Xavier. Stewart, 73, plays the wheelchair-bound tele [...]
By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter HOLLYWOOD—“The Wolverine” Unleashed Extended Edition debuts on Digital HD today and on Blu-ray and DVD on Dec. 3. It features an extended unrated cut with more intense action than the theatrical release did earlier this year. Hugh Jackman appears as the icon [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic A dying Japanese zillionaire in “The Wolverine” is shown lying on a shiny CGI platform made of upright metal rods that automatically conform to his every change in position. That high-tech bed of nails looks so ridiculously uncomfortable [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Les Misérables” is the kind of bloated, cornball and sappy spectacle that makes people say they hate movie musicals. Most of the melodies (by Claude-Michel Shönberg) are unmemorable, most of the lyrics (by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Nat [...]