Tag Archives: Liam Neeson

Blacklight review — Neeson thriller is spectacularly lame

February 10, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Mark Williams | Written by Williams, Nick May, and Brandon Reavis | 108 min | ▲△△△△ Liam Neeson, so good in period epics like Silence and dramas like Ordinary Love, is best known these days for those interchangeable action pictures with titles like The Commuter, Cold Pursuit, and The Marksman. There's a precedence for… Read More

Ordinary Love review — Manville and Neeson terrific in cancer drama

May 6, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn | Written by Owen McCafferty | 92 min | On Demand A somber, but unsentimental film about a loving middle aged couple where one partner is diagnosed with breast cancer, and how the illness impacts their life together. Joan and Tom (Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson) are… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: December 2018

December 19, 2018 flawintheiris

Roma One could make an argument last year's Mudbound was the feature that signalled Netlfix's prestige drama interest, readying their horses for the annual Oscar race. Roma is really the tipping point, a film with the critical momentum to suggest it could actually take the Best Picture statuette. I'd be surprised, simply because it's much… Read More

Silence review — Martyrs enjoyed vicariously, or not

January 12, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Martin Scorcese | Written by Scorcese and Jay Cocks, adapting a book by Shûsaku Endô | 161 min Martin Scorcese has made a lot of different kinds of movies, but much of his work can be grouped in three modes: The street fighter, telling tales of desperate, frequently armed men in Taxi Driver,… Read More

Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy review

July 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Watching Interstellar for a third time, I felt very much like I had a sense of what Christopher Nolan was going for. But it took three views to really feel like I got it. I love that, when movies have enough depth and complexity that it takes more than one viewing to fully grasp what's… Read More

Entourage review — Return of the bromcom

June 6, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Doug Ellin, written by Ellin from a story by Ellin and Rob Weiss, from the TV series Watching Entourage, I spent a lot of time thinking about the expectations we have when we watch a show on HBO, and then a movie at the multiplex. On TV, I enjoyed the story of suburban… Read More

Run All Night review — Liam Neeson brings it

March 12, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Brad Ingelsby Liam Neeson: action icon. It would have been hard to believe 10 years ago, even though he once played a superhero in Darkman. Neeson's found a professional niche comparable to what Robert Mitchum used to do, or late career Charles Bronson. That said, his efforts in the action… Read More

Taken 1, 2, and 3 review — Liam Neeson’s special skills and bad parenting

January 15, 2015 flawintheiris

Taken (2008) Directed by Pierre Morel, written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen "You live in your little bubble here with your maids and your servants!" It's like Liam Neeson's Bryan Mills is admonishing all of America when he tries to tell his ex-wife, Lenore (Famke Janssen), that she and their 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie… Read More

The Equalizer vs. A Walk Among The Tombstones: Two Sides of the Same Blood-Spattered Coin?

October 2, 2014 flawintheiris

The Equalizer—directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Richard Wenk, from the TV series created by Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheim A Walk Among The Tombstones—written and directed by Scott Frank, adapting the novel by Lawrence Block A trailer for a something called John Wick, opening later this month, ran before A Walk Among The Tombstones. This is… Read More