john wick

This has been another tough year for the movie industry. Following on from the disaster of 2020 when audiences around the world were shut out of cinemas for months at a time due to restrictions around the world, many hoped that 2021…

We are closing in on the top spot for the HeadStuff Film writers’ Best Action Movies of the past decade. If you haven’t caught our picks for #25 to #11 check them out here. Let’s jump back in with our Top Ten. 10.  Dredd When I mentioned…

The Russian mafia killed his dog. He killed all of them. That was the simple, often joked about premise of the first John Wick. A slickly made 2014 thriller with a sense of humour and a brilliantly propulsive plot, it endeared itself to…

“They know you’re coming.” “Of course, but it won’t matter.” With this immortal exchange the end game of John Wick begins. But how did we get here? John Wick didn’t come out of a vacuum. Years of research and dedication along with a…

An understandable reaction to seeing the words “sequel” and “John Wick” together in a sentence could be fear and disappointment that the brilliant and singularly-minded 2015 Keanu Reeves vehicle is the latest victim of the gentrifying…

Just once, I want to see a movie about autistic people who are shit at maths. Like me. Yes, I have Asperger’s Syndrome. No, I will not go with you to Las Vegas on your J1 (one person asking me this was too many). In any case, I am…

Last week the BBC released a list of the Top 100 Films of the 21st Century, polled from 180 critics from across the globe. The list featured many great and inspired films from the past 16 years with David Lynch's Mulholland Drive coming out…

'Jesus, man. Leave it out, it's not worth it'. That is one of the things that a sane person would have shouted at the characters in this movie. I'm glad no one did as there are no sane people in John Wick. We see Keanu Reeves as the…

Foxcatcher  (2014) Dir. Bennet Miller I finally got around to watching Foxcatcher... in fact I was torn between seeing this and Birdman, however my inability to correctly read a cinema listing schedule determined that my evening would…