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FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK: BALLERINA

June 4, 2025 By Leave a Comment

FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK: BALLERINA

I miss the suit. I know it’s crazy, but the conservative, and bullet-proof. Black suit that John Wick sports while doing the impossible makes a statement. It does show up, as does Mr. Wick himself, in From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, but it only makes me miss it more. While, not as hyperbolically… Read More »

Tagged With: Alpine village, contract killer, Mitteleuropa, nothing personal. oneiric, Ruska Roma, slinky sequin dress, symbolism, weltzschmerz, Wick universe

THE KILLER

November 2, 2023 By Leave a Comment

THE KILLER

David Fincher’s THE KILLER is as methodical as its protagonist, the philosophizing hit man in the midst of pickle that challenges his core nihilistic belief system in which karma doesn’t figure, nor does luck. The irony may be lost on this unnamed protagonist, but not on us as we are treated to a cavalcade of… Read More »

Tagged With: contract killer, Dominican Republic, explosive bullet, flight of whiskey, hit man, irony, Paris, puckishly perverse, vengeance

THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD

August 17, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD

In a way, it would be a shame to saddle Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds with too much plot in THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD. The snark fest that they provide as adversaries forced to endure one another’s company is its own reward as they travel from Manchester to The Hague while fending off some very… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, bodyguard, buddy picture, contract killer, Manchester, romance, The Hague, weaponized hardware store

SMOKIN’ ACES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SMOKIN’ ACES

Somewhere in Joe Carnahan’s SMOKIN’ ACES there is a really good film trying desperately to get out. Several actually. And therein lays the problem. Dashing blithely as he does through several different genres Carnahan shows moxie and a genuine flair for each one: black comedy, gut-wrenching drama, farcical silliness, and a deeply affecting morality tale. It’s… Read More »

Tagged With: contract killer, FBI, feds, hit men, hit women, Jeremy Piven, Joe Carnahan, Las Vegas, mob, SMOKIN' ACES

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