A JBO Reel Review of: John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Reeves is a wrecking ball of gun fu action fun in 2017’s John Wick: Chapter 2. It’s one of those rare instances when an action sequel lives up to—and in some ways even surpasses—the hype and high expectations set up by the original. After stepping out of retirement to...
A JBO Reel Review of: John Wick (2014)
It’s ruthless. It’s relentless. It’s remorseless. It’s Reeves at his best. 2014’s John Wick might be the best shoot ‘em up action film of all time. When the spoiled son of a Russian mobster destroys his last chance at happiness, legendary contract killer John Wick...
A JBO Reel Review of: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
It looks like theatre. It moves like jazz. It feels like the blues. It’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and it means business. A group of blues musicians prepare for a recording session with the legendary Ma Rainey but tensions flare as the trumpets blare. Ma Rainey’s...
A JBO Reel Review of: The Irishman (2019)
Perhaps the most self-indulgent film ever made, The Irishman takes what feels like the entire night to tell in painstaking and erroneous detail, a story that no one ever asked to hear. From its truly unnecessary run-time to its broken narrative structure, this film...
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Brendan Da Costa is an award-winning short story writer, poet, novelist, copywriter and (very, terribly opinionated) blogger.