Brandon Streussnig

3 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Brandon Streussnig |Marya E. Gates |Mia Lee Vicino |Brute Force

Smothering silence. A close-up of a man’s face, sweat pouring down its craggy exterior. He reaches out, another man hands him a tool. Zoom out. We see a safe. The tool is being used to crack it open. Inside the safe hides a better life. Or at least that’s what these men have told themselves. They only need to push a little harder and retrieve it. If you’ve seen a heist picture, you know these beats well.

Feb 27, 2025 | vulture.com | Brandon Streussnig |Bilge Ebiri |Roxana Hadadi

action! Hundreds of action pros voted, and George Miller’s postapocalyptic action team reigned supreme. Something we’ve noticed over the several years we’ve been giving the Stunt Awards is the extent to which the general viewing public has become better versed in the world of stunts. This has relatively little to do with our specific awards and more to do with the cultural moment from which our awards emerged: a renewed engagement with the real, the tactile, the human.