Posts Tagged ‘Ian Mcshane’
Film Review – Ballerina
Advertisements have gone to great lengths to let us know that Ballerina (2025) is a spinoff of the highly successful John Wick franchise. The marketing makes it painfully clear that the “Baba Yaga” himself, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) makes an appearance. Hell, even the title was marketed as “From…
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Film Review – John Wick: Chapter 4
The John Wick series started as a small revenge tale and has grown to become one of the definitive action franchises of the new century. Incorporating muscular hand to hand combat, gun choreography, and awe-inspiring stunts, each entry upped the ante in terms of death-defying acrobatics. Beyond…
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Film Review – My Father’s Dragon
Cartoon Saloon, the studio responsible for the acclaimed animated features Song of the Sea (2014) and The Secret of Kells (2009) has returned with yet another marvel in My Father’s Dragon (2022). The film is reminiscent of the best Studio Ghibli efforts, in how it mixes fantasy and adventure with real life themes.…
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Film Review – John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
One of the great accomplishments of the John Wick franchise is the world building. We have a time and place that looks similar to the one that we live in, but underneath the surface is a living, breathing world of assassins. It’s a place where…
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Film Review – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
14 years ago Disney released what I will definitively name the best movie in an incredibly specific and narrow genre. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is the best movie based on an amusement park ride. There were many factors in…
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SXSW TV Review – American Gods
Bryan Fuller (or rather NBC) left Hannibal fans high and dry after the third season. The level of artistry of Fuller’s creative team needed another outlet, and before the blood was dry from the end of Hannibal, Fuller and company embarked on another episodic journey,…
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Film Review – John Wick: Chapter 2
In 1986, Chinese filmmaker John Woo dropped the action film A Better Tomorrow on the world and helped give birth to a movement of action films made in Hong Kong that lasted for the better part of the next decade. When these film began reaching…
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Interview – Nick Frost – Cuban Fury
Spencer interviews actor/writer/producer Nick Frost from the romantic comedy Cuban Fury.
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