Musings of a Wandering Writer

Recently, I had the chance to check out Nobody (sorry, no review this time around), but I felt that something was lacking to truly make that film special. With that, I decided to revisit this and make a bit of cross-comparison. 1 Where You Can Find It:  I saw this on Amazon Video where it is available for rent/purchase. General Information  John Wick is a Neo-noir action film that was released on 24 October 2014. It was directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad with Jonathan Sela providing the cinematography. It was primarily produced via Summit Entertainment and Thunder Road Pictures with Lionsgate distributing. It is the first entry in the John Wick trilogy (which is expected to become a tetralogy in March 2023 ). With a budget of approximately $20 million, it hauled in highly respectable $86 million at the box office. It has a fairly positive critical reception with a 68 Metascore on Metacritic, along with an 86% Tomatometer rating on Rotten ...

This one's taken me a very long time to get out, but the holidays have been slowing me down a bit more than I expected. Although I may typically prize story/plot more than some of the other usual suspects, this remains one of those films that demonstrates audio, set design, and story can work in horrific harmony. 1 Where You Can Find It:  I saw this on Amazon Video where it is available for rent/purchase. General Information  Alien is a science fiction horror film that was released on 25 May 1979. It was directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. It was produced under Brandywine Productions and distributed through 20th Century Fox. Academy Award winning musician, Jerry Goldsmith, provided the scoring for this  with Derek Vanlint handling cinematography and photography. It is the first entry in the Alien franchise, which is now made up of six films (not counting the AVP: Alien vs. Predator spin-off series). In 2002, it was selected for preservation within the ...