JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM (15)

despite sterling performances from a teary-eyed Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy.

It has been 27 years since the sweltering summer of 1989 when teenage members of the Losers Club – Ben Hanscom (Jeremy Ray Taylor), Beverly Marsh (Sophia Lillis), Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Lieberher), Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Dylan Grazer), Mike Hanlon (Chosen Jacobs), Richie Tozier (Finn Wolfhard) and Stanley Uris (Wyatt Oleff ) – defeated Pennywise the clown (Bill Skarsgard).

“If it isn’t dead, if it comes back, we come back too,” declares Bill to the rest of the gang, slicing a shard of broken glass into each of their palms to seal a blood oath.

Hellish history repeats in 2016 and Mike (now played by Isaiah Mustafa), who has stayed in Derry as the town’s librarian, summons other members of the Losers Club to revisit their darkest nightmare.

Ben (Jay Ryan), Beverly (Chastain), Bill (McAvoy), Eddie (James Ransone), ACTION sequel. Hitman John Wick (Keanu Reeves) has been excommunicated from the Continental Hotel in New York – a membership-only haven for the criminal underworld – by owner Winston (Ian McShane) after he broke the rules and terminated a crime lord on the premises. The High Table, the guild of assassins which imposes a strict moral code on the spilling of blood, authorises a $14m contract on John’s life. Carnage begins at 6pm and John calls in a long-standing marker with a crime syndicate boss (Anjelica Huston) to secure safe passage to Morocco, where he hopes to reunite with fellow assassin Sofia (Halle Berry).

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Keanu Reeves as John Wick