‘Ballerina’ and Our 10 Burning 'John Wick' Questions

House of R

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Mal and Jo are back to go through the latest installment in the John Wick universe, ‘Ballerina.’ They discuss the film’s box office results, break down what changed in the extensive reshoots, and talk about the future of the 'John Wick' franchise and whether it can survive without Keanu Reeves. Next, they each come up with five burning questions about ‘Ballerina’ and the rest of the Wickverse. (00:00) Intro(05:45) Opening snapshot(08:45) Box office results(25:32) What happened during the reshoots?(32:12) Our history with the Wickverse(42:38) Burning questions(43:59) Timeline continuity issues(55:43) Training dogs to attack the crotch(58:33) Is it time for the Continental to change its policies?(01:05:16) Is Evanescence's "Fight Like a Girl" the worst needle drop?(01:10:18) How much of a city in the Wickverse is made up of assassins?(01:15:42) What about the rest of the children at Hallstatt?!(01:17:15) Will the Director and Ruska Roma look to recruit at Hallstatt?(01:24:45) Accent corner with Joanna Robinson(01:28:13) Who put the hit on Eve?(01:39:35) Letter grades and final reaction Hosts: Mallory Rubin and Joanna RobinsonProducers: Jessie Lopez and John RichterSocial: Jomi AdeniranAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to House of R.
0:13.1	I'm Joanna Robinson joining me today.
0:15.4	Is that blood gushing out of her toe shoes?
0:19.1	It's Mallory, Rubin.
0:21.1	Hey, Mallory, how you doing?
0:23.4	Just thinking about you, thinking about the ballet,
0:30.2	thinking about the Baba Yaga,
0:31.9	thinking about the time that we saw this movie together.
0:35.9	We did, we did do that.
0:37.3	What a treat that was. What a treat that was.
0:38.6	What a treat that was. Hello. Hello. We're here to talk about the film Ballerina,
0:47.4	which debuted this last weekend. Yeah. To moderate success. And we will talk about all of that.
0:53.4	And it is part of, of course,
0:54.3	the larger John Wick universe.
0:55.7	So Mallorna,
0:56.3	I went to go see this movie together this weekend because I was in L.A.
0:59.2	It was Halo's birthday.
1:00.7	And Halo's like,
1:01.7	hey,
1:01.9	you know how I want you to celebrate my birthday?
1:04.6	You should go see Ballerina,
1:07.4	the John Wick movie,
	...

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