There are a multitude of reasons why the first “John Wick” movie was successful (and the “bullet-riddled blast” of a sequel, which opens this week, seems primed to do at least as well). Primarily, it was the lean, unapologetic action bona fides of stuntmen-turned-directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch that took the slender B-movie premise and turned it into a sleek modern classic in the neo-noir genre.

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The unspeakable horrors of this weekend in Orlando, Florida — a massacre in a nightclub that claimed the lives of over fifty people — hit all Americans on a visceral gut level. But none were hit harder than the LGBT community, seemingly the target of this shocking crime.

While this new video supercut may seem opportunistic from the outside, Fandor, the originator of the clip writes, “We commissioned this piece prior to the terrible events in Orlando.

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