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THE CONTINENTAL: FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK
John Wick 4 came out this year and just crushed it! It was an epic bullet ballet, worthy of being among the very best of action movies, and further cementing Keanu Reeves as one of the GOATs. So, with that movie doing what it did so damn well, you would think there would be a bigger push for people to check out the spinoff prequel series that is actually three feature-length episodes, and thus making it three additional movies to the John Wick universe. You would think that, but you would be wrong. Because no one is talking about it. No one that is, except for Melina, Dogget, and T.C. The Continental: From the World of John Wick tells the story of how a young Winston Scott (Colin Wodell), took on the general manager of the famed hotel, Cormac O’Conner (Mel Gibson), and came to his position as proprietor of the New York branch of The Continental, the chain of hotel safe havens for legal assassins on the grounds of which no business may ever take place. It explores variations on real-world events in post vietnam New York and has all the things you may have come to expect from the John Wick movies, but also not. It’s got a tv show budget, so what’s here is hampered by monetary restrictions. How does this prequel hold up as added lore and mythology to the Wick-a-verse? Lock and load. Here we go.
CREATED BY: Greg Coolidge, Kirk Ward, and Shawn Simmons
STARRING: Mel Gibson, Colin Woodell, Fflyn Edwards, Mishel Prada, Ben Robson, Ben Robinson, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Nhung Kate, Jessica Allain, Ayomide Adegun, Jeremy Bobb, Peter Greene, Adam Shapiro, Katie McGrath, Mark Musashi, Kirk Ward, Ray McKinnon, Zainab Jah, Dan Li, Chris Ryman, Samuel Blenkin
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Melina Eames (Screener Squad)
Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.
Danny Dogget (Screener Squad)
Hey persons, it’s your favorite canine Dogget! As many of you know, I don’t identify as a critic as much as a classy shock jock. That being said, I do my best to give all of you a well-balanced review filled with my true opinions and hopefully a few laughs. You can occasionally find me on other persons podcast like Mission Impodible (that’ll be 10 dollars Nathan). For the most part, you can find me doing reviews on Oneofus.net.
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