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Movie Review – The Marksman (2021)

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The Marksman, 2020. Directed by Robert Lorenz. Starring Liam Neeson, Katheryn Winnick, Juan Pablo Raba, and Teresa Ruiz. 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. It didn’t take Liam Neeson long to backpedal on his 2017 […]

Movie Review – Made in Italy (2020)

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Made in Italy, 2020. Written and Directed by James D’Arcy. Starring Liam Neeson, Lindsay Duncan, Micheál Richardson, Valeria Bilello, Marco Quaglia, Gian Marco Tavani, and Helena Antonio. SYNOPSIS: A bohemian artist who travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife. Early on in Made […]

Liam Neeson’s The Marksman aims low to secure top spot at the US box office

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With the moviegoing business decimated in most corners of the world, it doesn’t take much for a film to eek out top spot at the domestic box-office, and that’s the case once again this week as Liam Neeson’s The Marksman (read our ★★★ review here) held on at the summit with just over $2 million, […]

Seth MacFarlane wants Liam Neeson to star in The Naked Gun

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Liam Neeson found his career taking a sharp turn into the action genre following the success of 2008’s Taken, but over a decade later – and with many bodies and bullet casings behind him – the actor has admitted during the press tour for his new film The Marksman [read our review here] that time […]

Liam Neeson shows off his original Star Wars: The Phantom Menace lightsaber

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Liam Neeson, who starred as Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, has shown off his original lightsaber in a recent interview. This week we heard from Liam Neeson that he would be up for returning as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn for the Obi-Wan Kenobi show and now the actor has […]

Liam Neeson would be happy to return as Qui-Gon Jinn in the Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi show

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Liam Neeson says he would be happy to reprise the role of Qui-Gon Jinn for the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars series. The upcoming Disney+ Star Wars show about Obi-Wan Kenobi has a lot of potential. Set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, we already know that the limited series will feature […]

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 […]