By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD-Based on the DC comics’ Green Lantern, writers Chris Mundy (True Detective: Night Country,) Damon Lindelof (Lost) and Tom King (The Vision, Marvel comics, Batman, DC comics) have created a new take on the franchise with HBO/Max’s Lanterns. The series sp [...]

By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic One of the most iconic comic book villains of all time finally gets his moment in the spotlight with Warner Bros. Pictures’ highly anticipated new film “Joker,” a deeply depressing look at the madman behind the makeup that’s oftentimes uncomfortable  [...]

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 HOLLYWOOD— Willem Dafoe arrives for an interview fortified by a cup of black coffee. The two-time Oscar nominee (“Platoon,” “Shadow of the Vampire”) reveals he returned to the U.S. from Australia just two days earlier after a five-month shoot on the latest effe [...]