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The best Aaron Taylor-Johnson movies prove he is one of Hollywood's most exciting young actors. Born Aaron Johnson in 1990, he began his film career as a child actor in the early 2000s. He broke out into stardom with his performance as the young John Lennon in the biopic Nowhere Boy in 2009. During that star-making production, he met his now-wife, Sam Taylor-Johnson, who made her directorial debut with the film. Since then, Aaron Taylor-Johnson has appeared in all manner of Hollywood productions, from a litany of comic book adaptations to elaborate costume dramas.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is continuing his career streak as a Hollywood leading man with 2024's Kraven the Hunter,where he's playing the titular character as part of Sony's Spider-Man Universe (Ssu), in the same multiverse as Venom and Morbius. He is also slated to appear in David Leitch's The Fall Guy alongside Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt,...

All hail Saint Maud as we prepare to rejoice in her ascension. A24‘s psycho-evangelical thriller will be the first horror movie shown in theaters since Covid-19 Stephen-King-novelized us all. And if that’s not scary enough, it’s being compared to Hereditary and The Witch as the next great modern horror film. The film will open nationwide on July 17.

Saint Maud is a “chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and salvation in a fallen world,” according to its official website. “Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient’s soul — but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.” This is the first feature from writer/director Rose Glass, who brings a vibe similar to the claustrophobic horror classics Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Repulsion (1965).

The film stars Morfydd Clark in the title role, a private...

Studio A24 has now become well-renowned for bringing unique, original movies to the cinema screen like last year's Midsommar. They are also garnering a solid reputation for introducing genuinely bone-chilling horror to audiences and influencing nightmares everywhere. This looks to be continuing with their upcoming psychological horror movie, Saint Maud, for which a new trailer has just been released.

The movie follows the titular Maud, who is a reclusive young nurse whose impressionable demeanor causes her to pursue a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud's fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward's soul from eternal damnation, whatever the cost.

Saint Maud is the directorial debut of Rose Glass, and stars Love & Friendship's Morfydd Clark stars as Maud, with Tony and BAFTA-winning actress Jennifer Ehle...

It's not long now before AFI Fest 2019 kicks off on November 14th, so details on the genre films set to be screened at the festival have been announced. Also in today's Horror Highlights: The Addams Family Halloween screenings, Gibson's Behind the Board interview with A Nightmare on Elm Street composer Charles Bernstein, a look at the short film Bienvenue, Cavitycolors' Halloween: H20 and Halloween: Resurrection apparel, and the poster for Black Wood.

Lineup Revealed for AFI Fest 2019: "AFI Fest 2019 presented by Audi, the American Film Institute’s annual celebration of cinema, will take place Thursday, November 14 – Thursday, November 21 in the heart of Hollywood.

Tickets can be purchased starting October 30 at https://fest.afi.com/tickets/

Bacurau – World Cinema

The inhabitants of a remote Brazilian village realize that their town has been erased from the map. When the water supply is cut, cell-phone coverage fades and a local family is murdered,...