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Movie Review – A Monster Calls (2016)

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A Monster Calls, 2016. Directed by J.A. Bayona. Starring Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell and Liam Neeson. SYNOPSIS: A young boy struggling to come to terms with his mother’s terminal illness is visited by a talking yew tree that tells him stories. With his first two films (The Orphanage and The Impossible) […]

Movie Review – The Marksman (2021)

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The Marksman, 2021. Directed by Robert Lorenz. Starring Liam Neeson, Jacob Perez, Katheryn Winnick, Teresa Ruiz, Juan Pablo Raba, Dylan Kenin, Luce Rains, Chase Mullins, and Christopher Mele. SYNOPSIS: A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who’ve pursued him into the U.S. […]

Liam Neeson is The Marksman in trailer for new action thriller

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The trailer for Liam Neeson’s latest action thriller The Marksman has been released. The film is directed by Robert Lorenz and sees Neeson as a rancher who has to protect a young boy from a dangerous drug cartel. Starring alongside Neeson are Katheryn Winnick (Vikings), Teresa Ruiz (Narcos: Mexico), Juan Pablo Raba (Peppermint) and Jacob Perez. The […]

Liam Neeson to star in Speed-like thriller Retribution

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In news coming out of the American Film Market, Deadline is reporting that Nimrod Antal (Predators) is set to direct Liam Neeson in the thriller Retribution for Studiocanal and The Picture Company. The film is a remake of the 2015 Spanish thriller El Desconocido and sees Neeson playing a businessman who finds himself in a […]

Star Wars: Liam Neeson says he’s never been approached about playing Qui-Gon on screen again

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Liam Neeson, who starred as Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, says that he has never been asked back for another on-screen performance. While Qui-Gon Jinn has proven to be a very popular character over the years, the last and only time we saw Liam Neeson play the character in […]

Movie Review – Honest Thief (2020)

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Honest Thief, 2020. Directed by Mark Williams. Starring Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Anthony Ramos, and Robert Patrick. SYNOPSIS: Wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents. Liam Neeson has certainly calmed things down on the action front […]

Movie Review – Honest Thief (2020)

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Honest Thief, 2020. Directed by Mark Williams. Starring Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Anthony Ramos, and Robert Patrick. SYNOPSIS: Wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents. Honest Thief opens with a montage of Liam Neeson’s military veteran […]

Liam Neeson defends Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best

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Liam Neeson, who played Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, has defended the film after all these years. When Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace first released the reception wasn’t particularly great from critics and fans of the original trilogy. However, over the years the film and the […]

Liam Neeson originally believed Taken would go straight-to-video

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Despite being a financial success and one of the films that helped revamp Liam Neeson’s career, the actor reveals he initially had no expectations for the first Taken film. During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, while promoting his upcoming film Made in Italy, Neeson admitted he initially thought Taken would be a straight-to-video film. “I’ve said this […]