Posts Tagged ‘Liam Neeson’
Film Review – The Ice Road
At this stage of his career, Liam Neeson seems content with making mid-level action thrillers. That’s not a bad thing, given that the genre has been dominated by superhero “event” films or franchise sequels for the better part of fifteen years. Seeing smaller, one-off actioners…
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Episode 61 – The Little Things
For this week’s episode, we review the new HBO Max thriller, The Little Things, starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto. We also discuss the latest movie news and for our streaming homework, we review Sam Raimi’s Darkman from 1990. Download episode here.
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Film Review – Men in Black: International
Men in Black: International (2019) is the kind of big budget undertaking that’s completely manufactured for the purpose of garnering a financial gain. It plays things right down the middle, where it doesn’t take any risks, it unfolds in a completely safe and uninteresting way,…
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Film Review – Widows
Director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Shame) decided to take on a film showcasing women finding their strength in Widows. With a screenplay by McQueen and Gillian Flynn (author of Gone Girl, Sharp Objects) and based on the novel of the same name by…
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Film Review – The Equalizer 2
Remakes of old TV shows have long been a kind of investment safety net for Hollywood. They get to take something with built in brand recognition, an already established outline of a concept or story, and often premade characters that they can simply recast. Whether…
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Film Review – Book Club
The movies have a problem with age. After a certain point in life, Hollywood seems to think either actors are too old to star in anything anymore or that audiences won’t care about anyone with a gray hair. And as bad as that is all…
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Film Review – The Commuter
The best kind of crime thrillers are those that present a moral dilemma and then puts the viewer in the position of having to choose a side. That’s what makes them so interesting – seeing characters in desperate situations having to compromise their beliefs as…
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Top 15 Films Of 2016 – Allen’s Picks
When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to grow up. Adults got to do all the cool things. Every year seemed to drag by at a snail’s pace. Now that I actually am an adult, time has been moving way too fast. I keep…
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