The Top 15 Movies Of 2017

Every year, I debate whether or not to make a year-end best-of list. I hate ranking movies (or giving them grades for that matter), and where a movie falls, or even what’s included, varies day-by-day, even hour-by-hour depending on my mood and what I remember.

'John Wick: Chapter 2' (2017) Movie Review

As long as villains keep making the absolute worst choice imaginable, messing with John Wick—seriously, never fuck with the guy the movie’s named after—and as long as the result is even a fraction as great as the franchise has been thus far, I will continue to drool over these films. I hope they never leave him alone.

New 'John Wick: Chapter 2' Trailer Has No Idea What's Coming

Bad guys, apparently you didn’t get the message the first time, but you really, really, need to stop messing with John Wick. It’s not going to end well. To be fair, I hope you never learn this lesson, since that would make John Wick: Chapter 2 the last in the saga of the reluctant hitman, and I don’t that to happen because this new trailer and poster look amazing.

John Wick Works On Retirement In The First 'John Wick: Chapter 2' Trailer

Don’t mind that noise, that’s just the sound of me in the corner squealing with glee at the first footage from John Wick: Chapter 2. I won’t waste your time with words on an important occasion like this. Check it out for yourself below.

First 'John Wick 2' Photo Shows Keanu Reeves And His Dog Out For A Stroll

Losing a pet is traumatic. For those of us who will never have kids, it’s as close to losing a child as we’ll ever get. It sent John Wick on kill-crazy rampage in the movie of the same name. But, like for all of us, the time comes to move on, and in the first image John Wick: Chapter Two, it looks like the former-assassin-turned-unretired-dog-avenger has done just that.

'John Wick 2' Gets A Suitably Badass Official Synopsis

Without a doubt, John Wick was my favorite movie of 2014. It wasn’t even close. This is the kind of stripped-down, no frills action I grew up on and that all-too-rarely gets made these days, especially outside of the DTV realm. It doesn’t hurt that, in the hands of former stunt coordinators-turned-directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski, the fight scenes and gun battles were magnificently staged, shot, and executed. John Wick: Chapter 2 is in the works, and while there have only been hints and clues about the story, we now have an official synopsis.

Watch Keanu Reeves' Badass 'John Wick 2' Training

If you’ve watched John Wick, and you should, it was hands down my favorite movie of 2014, you know that star Keanu Reeves plays a convincing total badass. Sure, a lot of it is due to your usual cinematic tricks like props, editing, stunt performers, and the like. But in this particular instance, a great deal of that is down to Reeves. Need proof? Check out this video of him training for John Wick: Chapter 2, blasting targets with live ammunition and looking like a man who can handle his business.

'John Wick 2' Is Happening, Yeah, He's Thinking He's Back

If you read any of my nonsense at all, you probably know that I have very strong feelings about the major motion picture JohnWick. The Keanu Reeves-starring revenge flick was hands down my favorite movie of 2014, and I use every opportunity to remind people of the fact that it may be the best action movie of the last decade. (It also his DVD/Blu-ray yesterday, so if you still haven’t seen it, you now have no excuse other than you suck.) But it might not be the last we see of the titular badass, as the ball has started rolling on John Wick 2. Maybe he has a cat we didn't know about.