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title: Blockbusters and stars — Personalized movie assistant
description: "This section gathers the site's writing on big-screen blockbusters and the people who make them. It covers superhero cinema on both sides of the aisle, from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its timeline to DC's superhero movies, along with the debate around superhero fatigue and how the two studios compare. Alongside that sit filmographies and ranked career overviews for actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Al Pacino, Jonah Hill, Amy Adams and Amanda Seyfried, and for directors including Quentin Tarantino, Alfonso Cuarón and Denis Villeneuve. Other pieces trace the evolution of action movies, the 007 franchise, action-comedy, adventure films in the Indiana Jones mould, female directors in Hollywood, Latina actresses, and recommendation lists built around films readers already like."
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author: tasteray.com editorial team
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topic: Blockbusters and stars
---

# Blockbusters and stars

This section gathers the site's writing on big-screen blockbusters and the people who make them. It covers superhero cinema on both sides of the aisle, from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its timeline to DC's superhero movies, along with the debate around superhero fatigue and how the two studios compare. Alongside that sit filmographies and ranked career overviews for actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Al Pacino, Jonah Hill, Amy Adams and Amanda Seyfried, and for directors including Quentin Tarantino, Alfonso Cuarón and Denis Villeneuve. Other pieces trace the evolution of action movies, the 007 franchise, action-comedy, adventure films in the Indiana Jones mould, female directors in Hollywood, Latina actresses, and recommendation lists built around films readers already like.

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