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Kraven the Hunter: Average Guy Movie Review

After a brutal lion attack Sergei Kravinoff is saved from death by a young girl and the rare serum gifted to her by her grandmother. The serum not only saves his life, it heightens his senses and increases his strength to superhuman levels. Searching for purpose and looking to get as far away from his criminal father as he can, Sergei becomes ‘The Hunter’. Utilising those newfound skills, he looks to rid the world of evil men. So the Sony Spider-Man Universe ( SSU ) has come to an end. And it is about as far from a glorious death as you can get. Kraven the Hunter  is yet another pretty standard origin story for a  Marvel character owned by Sony , in which said character does not get to meet the Web-Head. This one - which  inexplicably opens to the soundtrack to  The Hunt for Red October -  centres around a rather uninteresting family dynamic in which a father attempts to keep his children close by continuing to be the despicable man they have always loathed. Su...

Boston Strangler | Average Guy Movie Review

In the early 1960's Boston was hit with a string of murders in which women were strangled in their own homes. Initially investigated by the Boston Police Dept. as individual killings, it was Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightley) - a reporter for the Boston Record American newspaper - who originally connected them. She and fellow reporter Jean Cole (Carrie Coon) struggled against obstructions put up by law enforcement and their own colleagues, as well as the sexism and misogyny of the time to report on the case of the Boston Strangler. Another 20th Century Fox property has arrived on Disney+  with relatively little fanfare. With this gritty noir writer/director Matt Ruskin attempts to make sense of the mystery surrounding this illusive killer and his reign of terror over the city of Boston. The movie - which sits somewhere between Zodiac  and Spotlight  - follows the case from the point of view of both McLaughlin and Cole as they carry out their investigation into the kil...