Hang ‘Em High (1968) – El Clint stars as a former lawman turned Oklahoma cowpoke, wrongly lynched for cattle-rustling and saved by happenstance at the last minute, now with a bad again and going after the lynchers… for justice, not revenge.  Moviegoers are so used to the vengeful hero dispensing one-man retribution that this movie…

John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) – Surprisingly, a plausible sequel to an action movie that really wasn’t designed as a franchise.  (In other words, more plausible than everything from Die Hard 2 to Taken 2).  I’m not sure how much I like learning more about the pseudo-government of the underworld — the “seat at the…

John Wick (2014) – I can think of no other actor but Keanu Reeves whose habitual expression is equal parts that of a wide-eyed innocent and a dead-eyed shark.  I’m not saying that this story of a retired hitman forced back into his old life for revenge could never have been made with another star,…