By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Even drafting Marvel MVP Joss Whedon to co-write the screenplay and offer an uncredited directing assist to Zack Snyder isn’t enough to keep this dismally uninteresting bore from being another DC Comics strikeout. “Justice League” i [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features LONDON—Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman are joined by fellow DC Comics superheroes Aquaman, The Flash and Cyborg in the highly anticipated fantasy action spectacle “Justice League.” Ben Affleck reprises his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman, alongside Gal Gadot, who [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Batman star Ben Affleck plays a different kind of vigilante in his new film “The Accountant.” Diagnosed with a form of autism (or Asperger syndrome), his character Christian Wolff is a numbers man who uses his aptitude to do the bidding of nefarious c [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Stupid, sadistic and absolutely no fun whatsoever, the relentlessly dreary “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” offers further proof that every 21st-century Warner Bros. movie featuring those characters seems doomed to be dark, depressing [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Henry Cavill reprises his role as the Man of Steel and is joined by Ben Affleck as The Dark Knight in Zack Snyder’s heavyweight matchup “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” the first big studio tent pole of the year. The legendary DC Comics superhero [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features “Runner Runner” was more like a short walk when it was released briefly in theaters last September. With an all-star cast including Ben Affleck (fresh from “Argo”), Justin Timberlake and Gemma Arterton, this crime thriller about the high stakes world of online [...]