Tag: Liam Neeson

Memory | Review

Still Liam: Campbell Eclipsed by the Neeson Blueprint in Middling Thriller Now over a decade into the perennial routine of a yearly (sometimes quarterly) B-grade...

The Marksman [Video Review]

Over the Borderline: Neeson Clashes with Customs and Cartels in Latest Thriller By now a well-grooved subgenre unto itself, the Liam Neeson led cat-and-mouse carousel...

Honest Thief | Review

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Neeson Goes Nowhere in Another Derivative Offering Every generation tends to spawn a golden year action star from an aging flock...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Review

Six of the West: Coen Bros. Release Minor, Uneven Collection of Frontier Short Stories In thinking about the anthology form in cinema, Joel and Ethan...

Tuesday Blus: Intermezzo, Blade Runner: 2049 & Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Intermezzo (1939) Film Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ Disc Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ It’s a tale as old as time, more vintage than...

The Commuter | Review

Herrings on a Train: Neeson Fights the Good Fight in Half-Baked Transportation Thriller You can see him in Berlin (Unknown, 2011), or see his...

A Monster Calls | Review

Cover Up Love’s Alibi: Bayona Delivers Sensitively Portrait of Childhood Grief Rounding out a loosely themed trilogy on traumatic motherhood, director J.A. Bayona, once protégé...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #7. Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls Director: J.A. Bayona Writer: Patrick Ness Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona adapts Patrick Ness' celebrated children's book A Monster Calls for his third feature....

Run All Night | Review

About Last Night : Collet-Serra’s Latest Neeson Rating You may not have realized it, but while the Taken trilogy was warping its course through a series...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: #1. Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls Director: Juan Antonio Bayona // Writer: Patrick Ness Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona began as one of the talents supported by Guillermo Del...

Taken 3 | Review

Taken a Break: Megaton’s Slurpy Finish Brings Euro Schlock to L.A. It should surprise no one that Taken 3 is a laughable, sometimes downright embarrassing...

Third Person | Review

World Crash: Haggis Overextends His Usual Formula Two’s company, three’s a crowd. Or so the saying goes. Further beating the interrelated/intersecting characters and multiple storyline...

Non-Stop | Review

Murder on the Familiar Express: Collett-Serra’s Airborne Caper a Watchable Throwback Director Jaume Collet-Serra has jumped aboard the Liam Neeson renaissance train, reuniting with star...

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Paper Tiger | Review

TheyDream | Review

Frames That Mend: Caballero Unevenly Probes Puerto Rican Family...

The Devils (1971) | Review

Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Club Kid | Review

Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an...