Ballerina, the new John Wick movie, came out on my birthday and it feels like a movie made just for me. It is, as in the tradition of all the John Wicks, a slick-as-anything action movie with a strong emphasis on cool stunts, staging, and fight choreography. Ballerina also strips away a lot of the… Continue reading Of Ballerina
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Cool
It’s no secret that I love the John Wick movies. I’m a huge action-movie fan and consider these movies to be the best ones in modern, western, cinema. I’m going to low-key say that this is because it, like The Matrix before it, draws heavily on Asian action cinema like the classic Police Story and… Continue reading Cool
The Wickiness
John Wick has a delightfully simple premise: Retired assassin lives okay life. Punk kid steals retired assassin’s car and kills his puppy (that was given to him by his recently deceased wife). Retired assassin un-retires and goes on a brutal rampage of revenge. Simple, effective. And honestly, when so many action movies are trying to… Continue reading The Wickiness
Top Nine Movies of 2014
Eventually you get to the point when you realize if you keep putting off this list until you’ve seen everything you wanna see you’re never gonna write the darn list. So I’m writing it. So here’s my list of top nine movies for 2014; nine because I’m leaving a space for movies I haven’t seen… Continue reading Top Nine Movies of 2014
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