Tag: Aaron Johnson

Movie Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages’ Starring Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively

Posted: July 6, 2012 at 9:40 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Oliver Stone returns to his roots, with subject matter somewhat reminiscent of Scarface and Natural Born Killers. But Savages is unique enough to stand on its own, not fitting perfectly into one genre or the other. And that is what makes this vivid, beautifully filmed tale of two naive California drug lords who take on […]

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SAVAGES Opens July 6! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: June 28, 2012 at 8:22 am   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter to win a pair of passes! Three-time Oscar(R)-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone returns to the screen with the ferocious thriller Savages, featuring the all-star ensemble cast of Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch and Demian Bichir. The film is based on Don Winslow’s best-selling crime novel […]

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Kick-Ass Star, Aaron Johnson, and his Filmmaker Cougar Fiancee, Sam Taylor Wood, Welcome Daughter Wylda Rae

Posted: July 9, 2010 at 1:30 pm   /   Celebrity Gossip, Local

Aaron Johnson is a young British actor whose career is on the rise after a starring role in comic book adaptation, Kick-Ass, and playing John Lennon in the biopic, Nowhere Boy.  It was on the set of Nowhere Boy where the 20-year-old actor met his fiancee, the 43-year-old filmmaker, Sam Taylor Wood. The couple reportedly […]

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Rumor Mill: Josh Hutcherson Locked in to Play Peter Parker in “Spider-Man”

Posted: July 1, 2010 at 12:44 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Back in February the internet was alight with rumors that Percy Jackson star, Logan Lerman, was set to play Peter Parker in Sony’s reboot of the Spider-man franchise. (Read the article here.)  The rumors were proved to be false, and instead it turned out that the studio had just had a few talks with him […]

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“Nowhere Boy” HD Movie Trailer

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 9:26 pm   /   Local, Movie Trailers

No other band in history seems to be as idolized and romanticized as The Beatles. Nowhere Boy takes the life of John Lennon, and presents a coming of age story. Playing Lennon this time around is Aaron Johnson, in a much different turn than his last character Kick-Ass.  Biopics of dead musicians seem to always […]

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Kick-Ass

Posted: April 15, 2010 at 11:30 pm   /   Local, Movie Reviews

“I’m surprised no one had tried it before,” says Aaron Johnson’s character Dave Lizewski towards the beginning of Kick-Ass. He is of course talking about superheroes, and despite their popularity, they’ve never been attempted by regular people. You might be surprised that no one has had this idea before, but the idea of a comic […]

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Two All New Clips and a Few New Posters From “Kick-Ass”

Posted: March 22, 2010 at 11:46 am   /   Local, Movie News

MTV has posted a new clip for the upcoming superhero dark comedy, Kick-Ass. We also have another clip for you to see as well.  In addition to that, there is a handful of new posters that came out for SXSW. Whoever is doing the marketing behind this film is incredible. They really know how to […]

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Another New “Kick-Ass” Red Band Trailer

Posted: February 19, 2010 at 12:37 pm   /   Featured, Local, Movie News

It really seems like they are releasing a new one of these ever week. Which I am totally fine by. The more I see of this the more I want to see it. I’m just a little concerned that the comic series I started reading a couple years ago won’t even be caught up to […]

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“Kick-Ass” International Red Band Trailer

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 11:54 am   /   Film, Local

It seems like another one of these comes out every week. Actually, now that I think about it, that estimate isn’t far off. I’m quite fine with that as long as it keeps me sated until the film comes out. So far the response for it has been excellent, and as long as it delivers […]

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Another New ‘Kick-Ass’ Poster

Posted: January 18, 2010 at 1:23 pm   /   Film, Local

I’m sure posts like this are sure to confuse people. “Another kick ass poster?” They probably hop happily into this post expecting to see wizards battling on top  of Unicorns riding hoverboards, but instead are treated to yet another movie poster. I’m sorry folks, I know you wanted another image to airbrush on the side […]

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