By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Seann William Scott is unexpectedly sweet natured as a bar bouncer turned professional hockey brawler in the outrageously profane comedy “Goon,” but most of this true-story-inspired tale is literally a bloody mess. When a slow-motion show [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features *****Note to Editor: Release date is Friday March 16.***** What’s refreshing about this quirky contemporary fable is how relatively raunch-free it is for an R-rated comedy. “Jeff, Who Lives at Home” star Jason Segel’s most recent flick ma [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features *****NOTE TO EDITORS: The movie’s release date is Friday, March 9, and reviews are not allowed to run until the week of release.***** The first gimmick of this moody, disturbing and unusually somber horror flick is that it unfolds in 88 minutes of real tim [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features This expanded and beautifully computer-animated version of the 1971 Dr. Seuss book manages to make a pro-environment parable irresistibly entertaining. Its cautionary “greed is bad” message is more crazily charming than heavy handed, with some wildly [...]