Tag Archives: Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Kraven the Hunter (2024) Review

ANOTHER DISMAL SUPERHERO FAILURE   Sony’s Spider-Man Universe has certainly had a rocky journey, aiming to expand upon various Marvel Comics characters tied to the iconic web-slinging hero—Spider-Man—without actually including him in these features. It’s an ambitious concept: building a cinematic universe centered around Spider-Man’s villains and side characters, while leaving out the hero himself. Given Marvel Studios’ immense success

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The Fall Guy (2024) Review

A BLOCKBUSTER “LOVE LETTER” TO THE STUNT COMMUNITY   A stunt performer (often referred to be called a “stuntman” or “stuntwoman” or even “stuntperson”) is a trained individual professional who performs daring acts as a career. Not to be confused with daredevils, who are performers that take daring acts / feats for a live audience, stunt performers have appeared on

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Bullet Train (2022) Review

CHAOTIC ACTION RANDOMNESS   Director David Letich has bult a special niche career for full-throttle action motion pictures, finding hardcore (and sometimes relentless) chaotic thrills and bloody violence engaging enough for a non-stop cinematic treatment. First appearing in the major mainstream movie realm on the 2014 film John Wick (of which he co-directed with Chad Stahelski), Letich proved that his

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Avengers: Age of Ultron Review

EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES RETURN In the beginning of summer 2012, Marvel unleashed the unprecedented superhero team up with blockbuster film The Avengers. This collaboration of comic book heroes (Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, etc) was a first by movie standers, demonstrating an ambitious and experimental gamble by the studio heads at Marvel. The gamble, however,

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