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JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

Professional hitman and assassin John Wick takes on his most lethal adversaries yet in the fourth installment of Lionsgate’s popular action series.

With the price on his head ever increasing, Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Osaka to Berlin.

Keanu Reeves - not known for his acting abilities in general (‘Bill & Ted’ need we say more) absolutely nails this part of Wick bringing a moody, edgy character with a surprisingly likeable charm.

There are some great supporting actors in this film. Namely ‘Boyz N The Hood’ actor Laurence Fishburne as Bowery King and ‘Lovejoy’s’ Ian McShane as Winston Scott, Wick’s friend and allie at the Continental Hotel.

‘Highlanders’ Chad Stahelski is back directing this fourth and potentially final chapter, alongside Chapter 3 writer Shay Hatten.

Stahelski teased the fourth film during a recent interview (laden with expletives!) by saying the film would not have a happy ending for Wick.

“John may survive all this shit but at the end of it, there’s no happy ending. He’s got nowhere to go. Honestly, I challenge you right now, here’s a question to you: How do you f***ing want me to end it? Do you think he’s going to ride off into the f***ing sunset? He’s killed 300 f***ing people and he’s just going to walk away like everything’s okay? He’s just going to fall in love with a love interest? If you’re this f***ing guy, if this guy really existed, how is this guy’s day going to end? He’s f***ed for the rest of his life. It’s just a matter of time.”

Catch the film in cinemas from March 24th.

MILEY CYRUS: ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION

Pop princess Miley Cyrus is back with her eighth studio album ‘Endless Summer Vacation’ released on March 10th.

Having released single ‘Flowers’ celebrating love, courage and heartbreak on January 13th to huge commercial success and radio airplays this new album promises to be more of the same and has been described by the singer as her “love letter to Los Angeles” although the lyrics seem to reference the end of her marriage.

Cyrus split up with her actor Liam Hemsworth in 2019 with both parties citing “too much conflict in the marriage.”

There’s a verse in single ‘Flowers’ in which Miley sings, “Built a Home and watched it burn.”

The new album was recorded in L.A. and features production from Tyler Johnson, Kid Karpoom and Greg Kursten.

The former ‘Hannah Montana’ star wrote several songs with producer Michael Pollack and Gregory “Aldae” Hein. They were conceived only with piano, then evolved into their final versions, according to Pollack.

Pollack said in a recent interview that Cyrus decided to focus on songcraft before tackling the production.

‘Endless Summer Vacation’ will be released on both digital and physical formats on March 10, 2023, through Columbia and is being teased with billboards promising ‘New Year, New Miley.’

AVA GLASS: THE CHASE

Already optioned for TV (starring Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Coleman), and with the UK’s leading thriller writers from James Patterson to Anthony Horowitz giving it the thumbs up, The Chase is set to be 2023’s most addictive read.

In this race-against-the-clock thriller, a female British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London while being pursued through the streets of London by Russian intelligence. Can she make it without being spotted or killed?

Secret agent, Emma Makepeace has barely graduated from basic training when she gets the call for her first major assignment. Emma must covertly travel across the world’s most watched city to bring the reluctant adult son of Russian dissidents into protective custody, so long as the assassins from the tracking him down don’t get to him first.

With London’s famous Ring of Steel hacked by the Russian government, the two must cross the city without being seen by the hundreds of thousands of CCTV cameras that document every inch of the city’s streets.

The underground, buses, trains and cars, are completely out of the question. Traveling on foot, with no phone or bank cards, Emma and her charge have twelve hours to make it to safety. This will take all of Emma’s skills of disguise and subterfuge.

Just one wrong move could get them both killed and the clock is ticking…

A massive new talent in British fiction, Ava Glass’s storytelling is complex and finely crafted, combining twisting plotlines, intelligent dialogue and ambiguous characters, all skilfully brought together in an epic climax. Never before has spy fiction been so nail-bitingly real.