Liam Neeson Reviews, Interviews & More
It seemed like Snake Plissken was safe for a while there, but not now. For a couple of years, Escape From New York was rumored to be remade, with both Len Wiseman and Breck Eisner attached as a director, and Gerard Butler (who was attached to a great many projects post 300) set to star. None of that happened. But now there's new producers...
This week offers a weird collection of late fall titles that either could have been Oscar contenders or something more. But most died on the vine. There’s Taken 2, and that should be the big hit this week, while Fox has a ton of catalog titles, and there’s a couple of new and classic Woody Allen’s. Take a look…
Despite the fact that a man’s family members can only be kidnapped or harmed before sequels run out of steam and he’s forced to blow up neighborhoods with a bazooka (sorry, I channeled Death Wish 3 for a second there), it appears that Taken 3 may be happening, thanks to Taken 2’s nice box...
First: I apologize for that headline. A little. Second: Is it just me, or doesn't this weekend's titles feel like they belong in the summer months? You've got a Tim Burton movie versus a sequel to a huge hit, but it's the first week of October. You could just as easily see these two duking it out in May or June. But I guess they can't fight superheroes.
We're only a month away from Taken 2 starring Liam Neeson, who returns as his specialist with a specific set of cutlery. Or skills, something like that. Neeson, who's sixty, joins our list of favorite geriatric butt-kickers with this franchise, and we're hoping that it delivers the fun and thrills of the first. To get us in the mood, Neeson introduces the new...
Tropical storms, eh? Who needs ‘em? Shooting has halted for one week on Lee Daniels’ The Butler as residents on the Gulf Coast prepare for the worst from Tropical Storm Isaac. The crew behind the biopic, about long-time White House butler Eugene Allen (Forest Whitaker), hope to resume shooting again shortly.
It’s that time of year again, when Liam Neeson returns from his slumber to star in whichever mid-level , slick action film Jason Statham isn’t already starring in, or isn’t being revamped into Tony Scott-directed vehicle for Denzel Washington. This year’s gem? Taken 2, in which Liam Neeson’s things get taken again, and so he has to take them back, and take some lives in...
This week we’ve got a best picture winner, one of the year’s best comedies, a foreign film Oscar nominee, a near-Bollywood musical, a forgettable horror movie, one of this year’s bigger noisy would-be blockbusters. On the classic front, there's Hitchcock, samurai adventure, and the movie that made dueling banjos something to be slightly scared of. Check it out…
Liam Neeson's back at it in Taken 2, which follows his character from Taken,who now must defend his family from an organization wanting revenge for the hyperviolent stuff that happened in the first film. Entertainment Weekly got the first look, and we can share some of the first images from Taken 2. Check it...
There she blows! This weekend, Universal will dock Peter Berg's Battleship at a theater near you. The film is a live-action adaptation of the popular Hasbro strategy game. It stars Taylor Kitsch as a reluctant hero, who gets caught in the middle of an alien invasion. He's supported by a cast of familiar faces including...
2012’s biggest films of the early months are starting to hit DVD and Blu-ray, and we’ve got some of January and February’s surprise hits, and at least one of its failures. We’ve also got a great Criterion catalog title and a bunch of Disney films from the 1980’s and 90’s. Check out this week’s big releases below.
One of the long-running rumors concerning the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises is that the character played by Marion Cotillard, Miranda Tate, would in fact be Talia al Ghul. Fans familiar with the Batman comics will recognize Talia as the daughter of Ra’s al Ghul, whom Liam Neeson portrayed in Batman Begins (and who will appear via flashbacks in...
Because it just wouldn’t be summertime without at least one heavily CGI’d extravaganza of things loudly going ‘boom’ in an orgy of empty, lifeless action that we’ve seen hundreds of times before, all against a teal and orange canvas of depthless special effects, the film Battleship exists. Filling the void left by the lack of a Transformers flick this summer,...
2012's summer is going to be interesting as many of the big films look like they might not work. Men in Black III is going for another round of re-shoots, and there are a lot of other question marks, as well. Now we have the full trailer for Peter Berg's Battleship - which on paper looks dicey - but it's got scale and a story now. Taylor...
After the huge success of Taken, it appears that the early months of the year will promise at least one Liam Neeson action movie for another couple years. In 2011 it was Unknown. In 2012 it's The Grey, which hits theaters January 27. The film had a teaser spot, and now it's got a full trailer. Both end with Neeson...
Liam Neeson has re-teamed with The A-Team director Joe Carnahan for The Grey and it looks to be an adventure. The film tells the story of oil riggers who survive a plane crash, and who are forced to survive in the wilderness and battle the nearby wolves. What looks to be a mixture of Alive...
It's hard to know what to make of Battleship - the movie - even after the trailer. And that's because it's hard to call the board game (from which the film is derived) plot driven. It involves calling out numbers, which leads to hits and misses. Here there's an intergalactic threat, and battleships. No on ei is currently calling out anything resembling numbers, but...
So this is kind of a big deal—it turns out that a major plot point may have leaked from the set of The Dark Knight Rises, as broken by Drew McWeeny at Hitfix. First, to recap what we already know—this is the last film in the Christopher Nolan continuity of Bat-films, Catwoman and Bane show up at some point, and a young version of...
Sad news for fans of “distracting celebrity cameo that will also remind everyone that Mel Gibson was supposed to be here” as The AV Club calls it, as the oft-discussed Liam Neeson cameo in The Hangover II is now no longer happening (gasp!).
When Taken came out in January of 2009, it was not expected to be a runaway success. In fact, it was an action movie going up against the Super Bowl. But the film became an honest-to-goodness word-of-mouth hit. Liam Neeson was reborn as an action star - leading to The A-Team and Unknown - and the film made $145...
