![]() ![]() John Mellencamp’s output is not slowing down. Lee, who died in 2018 at 95, co-created an army of comic book characters including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Ant-Man and many more who have in the past 15 years become household names thanks to the popularity of Marvel films, many of which feature fun Stan Lee cameos. “Stan Lee,” directed by David Gelb, promises to explore Lee’s life and cultural impact. And on Disney+, a new original documentary about the late Stan Lee premieres Friday. plays the title role in the Stephen Williams-directed film, which I wrote in a review “may be more fiction than history, but it’s worthwhile with effective acting, tension (helped by Kris Bowers’ score) and a decadently beautiful production.” But it’s now on Hulu where audiences can learn about Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the son of a wealthy French plantation owner and an enslaved Senegalese teenager who rose through the ranks of French society due in part to his extraordinary musical talents as a composer and a violinist. ”Chevalier,” a lush, dramatic biopic of an accomplished Black man in Marie Antoinette’s France who was all but erased, came and went in theaters without a lot of fanfare. And Hemsworth has said that they opted for practical stunts and set pieces over green-screen fakery, which could be a bit frightening filming a sequence atop a train going 40 miles per hour through the snowy Czech Republic while a helicopter hovered 23 feet in front of him flying backwards. ![]() ![]() Director Sam Hargrave promised twice as much action and more emotion in this outing, produced again by the Russo brothers. In this outing, he’s assigned the dangerous task of rescuing a Georgian gangster’s family from a prison. Clinical death is just a minor obstacle for Chris Hemsworth’s action hero Tyler Rake, who audiences can see again in “Extraction 2,” which arrived on Netflix on Friday. ![]()
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