It's been four years since Chapter 3, aka Parabellum so I had to brush up a bit on the JW 'mythology' as it were, which gets more complex with each movie. Apparently this franchise wasn't always this complicated. Per this Thrillist article, director Chad Stahelski, a veteran stuntman who used to double for Keanu Reeves, …
Continue reading JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 Review – pure adrenaline actioner that’s wickedly Reeve-ting
Parabellum is Latin for "prepare for war" and is often used within the context of the phrase Si vis pacem, para bellum, meaning "If you want peace, prepare for war." (per Wiki). This title is absolutely spot-on for John Wick 3, which picked up exactly as the second movie left off. Our titular hero who's …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review- JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM (2019)
I'm so behind on my year-end top ten lists, but hey, I think January is still a great time for those lists right? 😉 I was listening to NPR two nights ago and caught host Robert Siegel interviewing composer Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption, The Road To Perdition, Wall•E, etc.) and naturally I started thinking …
Continue reading Music Break: Top 10 Favorite Film Scores of 2014
HAPPY [almost] FRIDAY!! I'm gonna combine this month's Chattin' post with Music Break as I missed it the past couple of weeks. I'm getting a bit of a blog fatigue lately and I'm behind on a bunch of reviews, so I might do more mini reviews in the next few weeks. I also have two fantastic …
Continue reading Everybody’s Chattin’ and Music Break: John Wick Soundtrack
'Don't judge a movie by its trailers,' That's a saying I often live by, for better or for worse. But in the case of John Wick's trailer, which was groan and eye roll-inducing the first time I saw it, I'm glad I ignored my first instinct and saw it anyway. The movie is as lean …
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