By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic Todd Phillips may be best known for wacky comedies (“The Hangover” trilogy, “Old School,” “Road Trip”), but the writer-director gets a little more serious with his latest big-screen effort, “War Dogs.” Based on a true story, the film follows two chil [...]
By LYNN BARKER Special to Front Row Features “22 Jump Street” is a little more scattered story-wise than “21 Jump Street” was, but it does show more heart as the bumbling undercover cop duo Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) have to examine their “bro” relationship and finally realiz [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—New dad Channing Tatum will be celebrating Father’s Day privately this Sunday with his wife, actress Jenna Dewan, and 13-month-old daughter, Everly, but another baby—one he’s willing to share with the world—is due Friday: the sequel to his hit buddy co [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director Martin Scorsese’s manic, hilarious, deliciously depraved and unexpectedly epic “The Wolf of Wall Street” is so much wild and crazy wall-to-wall fun that it’s by far the most enjoyable movie I’ve seen all year. I [...]
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 [...]