With its release set for this coming Friday, John Wick: Chapter 2 has seen everything from Super Bowl TV spots to a spoof Fifty Shades of Grey poster and a world premiere where Keanu Reeves himself attended the festivities and stated that the sequel was created from fan feedback and made with love. Reeves is now starting to […]
John Wick supercut features A Symphony of Violence
With a little over a month to go until the release of John Wick: Chapter 2, Warner Bros. is bringing fans up to speed with the story so far with the release of a supercut entitled ‘A Symphony of Violence’, which features an incredible compilation of action sequences from the first film; check it out […]
Top 10 Films of 2017 (So Far)
The Flickering Myth team vote… July marks the second half of 2017, can you believe it’s been half a year already? We’ve seen so much already! Audiences have been wowed by the movies approved by the Academy, Beauty and the Beast earned $1 billion, we’ve seen Fate of the Furious push the franchise to whole […]
John Wick: Chapter 2 director on taking the Aliens approach to the sequel
This February sees Keanu Reeves returning to the role of retired assassin and killing machine John Wick for a sequel to the 2014 action thriller, and director Chad Stahelski has been speaking to Collider about the approach they adopted for John Wick: Chapter 2, comparing it to that of James Cameron’s Aliens. “We decided to […]
John Wick: Chapter 2 has twice the action of the first movie, reveals director Chad Stahelski
Following on from this week’s first poster and news of a New York Comic-Con panel, director Chad Stahelski has been chatting to Collider about the upcoming sequel John Wick: Chapter 2, stating that it has “twice the action” of the first movie, as well as teasing what’s in store when Keanu Reeves’ retired hitman heads […]
John Wick gets a Movie Masterpiece Series collectible figure from Hot Toys
Hot Toys has unveiled its 1/6th scale Movie Masterpiece Series John Wick collectible figure which is based on the likeness of Keanu Reeves as the legendary hit man in the second instalment of the hit action thriller franchise John Wick: Chapter 2; check out the promotional images here… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Sideshow Collectibles “The man. […]
Have We Started To Settle For Mediocre Action Pieces?
George Chrysostomou asks whether we’ve started to settle for mediocre action pieces… The action film will forever be in its heyday, for conflict drives any narrative forward – especially when that conflict results in a showdown between two or more characters. Audiences will forever be drawn to the cinema to witness larger than life sequences, […]
John Wick: Chapter 3 gets summer 2019 release date
Perhaps one of the most surprising hits of 2014, John Wick was the movie that relaunched the career of Keanu Reeves and gave us an action film that was simple, well directed and featured fantastic practical action. The sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2, also proved to be a success, expanding the world that Wick inhabits and gaining even […]
Losing A Grip On Greatness: Dropping the Ball with Logan
Tom Jolliffe on Logan’s final third and losing a grip on greatness. Warning. Major spoilers follow… So there you are. You’re bowling a near perfect game. You’ve had the odd spare here and there but largely you’ve had strikes. Then you hit a gutter ball and your game starts falling apart. Sometimes it can end […]
Movie Review – John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
John Wick: Chapter 2, 2017. Directed by Chad Stahleski. Starring Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcia, Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, Common, Ruby Rose, Laurence Fishburne, and John Leguizamo. SYNOPSIS: After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life. The first John Wick was […]
