Aahil Dayani
School
McMaster University
Expertise
Avatar Films, "How I Met Your Mother", Indian Cinema
- Aahil has interviewed several celebrities, including "Thor: Ragnarok" composer Mark Mothersbaugh, "21 Jump Street" co-director Phil Lord, and more.
- He has attended the Toronto International Film Festival since 2015.
- While there are more productive things to do, Aahil makes it a point to rewatch "Uncut Gems" at least thrice a year.
Experience
Aahil began his career in entertainment journalism in 2017 when he first started as an intern for Heroic Hollywood. After the initial burst of excitement in seeing his name emboldened on the internet, he began working with several other outlets, including Screen Rant and HotNewHipHop. He later returned to Heroic Hollywood as a part-time staff writer, where he wrote breaking news, his fair share of hot takes, and scripted several YouTube videos. In 2022, he joined Static Media as a news writer for Looper, a gig that lets him gush about how cool "Top Gun: Maverick" is.
Education
Aahil double majored in English and theatre & film studies at McMaster University. His thesis included co-writing and co-directing a production on pandemics and writing a paper on his favorite movie of all time: "Om Shanti Om."
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Stories By Aahil Dayani
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Marvel and DC failed to appeal to audiences in 2023. Longtime fans of superhero films will likely want to know just which studio had the biggest bomb that year.
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What would a "Super Mario Bros." film look like if the story was set during the 1950s? Artificial intelligence tried to give fans a quick taste of this.
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Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson has starred in some of the greatest movies ever made, but only two of his projects have a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score.
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For fans of philosophical quandries and supernatural happenings, "Evil" is the unexpectedly thrilling show you have to check out on Netflix.
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An underrated indie darling starring Shia LaBeouf is finally finding an audience years after its release thanks to a successful streaming run on Netflix.
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Max makes a cameo appearance in prequel film "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," but Tom Hardy doesn't reprise the role. Here's who plays the character.
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Social media users react to the news Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are launching a new bundle that combines the Disney+ and Max platforms.
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With "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" hitting theaters, director Wes Ball explains whether you need to see any of the franchise's many previous entries.
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"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" is the highest-ranked superhero movie on Rotten Tomatoes' updated list of the best 300 movies of all time.
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As "Godzilla Minus One" has yet to debut on streaming services outside Japan, it has emerged as the most pirated film for the week of May 6, 2024.
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What would an animated "Avengers" movie look like if Pixar created it? AI tried to give fans that answer by giving Marvel's greatest heroes the Pixar treatment.
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With the first image of David Corenswet from James Gunn's "Superman" getting mixed reactions, one fan edit of the pic has earned rave reviews.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger outlines his plan for the future of Marvel Studios, detailing how many movies and TV shows he wants to be released each year.
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What happens when "The Matrix" franchise takes a retro step back in time? Well, ironically, AI tried to answer that with a trailer of sorts.
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Although Wolverine was written into the script for "Deadpool 3" early in the process, there were some at Marvel who worried about having the character return.
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The first look at David Corenswet's Superman costume hasn't made a lot of DC fans happy, with many lighting up social media with their complaints.
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Before becoming an A-list action hero in "Deadpool," Ryan Reynolds starred in two flops that nearly tanked his movie career - "The Green Lantern" and "R.I.P.D."
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"Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" director George Miller shares whether or not the highly-anticipated prequel features an appearance from Tom Hardy's Max.
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"Dirty Harry" is one of the most iconic films of the 1970s, but sadly, much of the movie's main cast have passed away. Here are the surviving stars.
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An AI-generated fan trailer imagines what "Justice League" would look like it it came out in the 1980s, casting numerous A-listers in key roles.
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A trailer for "Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back" teased a moment between Luke and Leia that thankfully didn't make it into the final film.
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"How I Met Your Mother" may have ended with a finale that disappointed many viewers, but one fan created a vision of an animated sequel to redeem the series.
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Although "Dr. Strangelove" remains a relevant political satire 60 years after its release, we've sadly lost almost all of its starring actors.
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"Deadpool & Wolverine" star Ryan Reynolds details his original ambitious pitch for the upcoming MCU installment, which was one of many ideas he had.
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According to Conan O'Brien, some of his friends thought he died after he appeared on the YouTube show "Hot Ones," all because he trended on social media.
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Drew Barrymore revealed on her talk show that she decided against a role in the 1997 drama "Boogie Nights," instead going in "a very different direction."
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That amazing "James Bond" trailer featuring Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie is fake - but it has fans wondering if Cavill will take on the Bond role next.