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Uncovering Curiosities: Jorge Dorado’s MINDSCAPE

Mindscape is a well composed Spanish/American production that works as a piece of entertainment, however you can’t help but feel that director Jorge Dorado and writer Guy Holmes felt there was much more weight to things than what ultimately ended [...]

October 2, 2021

Featurette For THE COMMUTER Starring Liam Neeson

Here’s a featurette for the latest Liam Neeson action-thriller, The Commuter. Jaume Collet-Serra directs with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson co-starring. Collet-Serra directed in Unknown, Non-Stop and Run All Night – so you know [...]

January 8, 2018

He Should Have TAKEN The Bus: Liam Neeson Flexes His Action Skills Again In The COMMUTER

Liam Neeson recently said that he was going to stop making action films – but don’t worry, he’s got a few bullets already in the chamber and set for release. The first of these is The Commuter (the second is Hard Powder), a new [...]

September 16, 2017

The New Director For SUICIDE SQUAD 2 Means Only One Thing: Room For Liam Neeson

Forget Mel Gibson – it looks like Jaume Collet-Serra will be replacing David Ayer as the director of Suicide Squad 2. The Spanish-born Collet-Serra doesn’t really float the Movies In Focus boat. He’s directed the sub-par Liam Neeson [...]

July 12, 2017

Sean Penn Has Taken The Opportunity To Follow Liam Neeson’s Footsteps With THE GUNMAN

You really can’t blame Sean Penn for wanting some of that sweet middle-age action cash that Liam Neeson is hogging. After all, Penn, like Neeson, is an acclaimed actor who needs to score a decent paycheque to pay the bills. His chance has come in [...]

January 23, 2015

Taken By Liam Neeson? Then Enjoy This Trailer For RUN ALL NIGHT

Fans of Liam Neeson’s particular set of action skills will get a kick out of this trailer for Run All Night. The thriller marks Neeson’s third teaming with Jaume Collet-Serra, who directed the Irish star in Unknown and Non-Stop. Those films [...]

January 10, 2015

DVD Review: MINDSCAPE Is Good – But It Could Have Been So Much Better

August 31, 2014

Blu-Ray Review: Liam Neeson Uses His Particular Set Of Skills In NON-STOP

The unexpected success of Taken has led to Liam Neeson becoming Hollywood’s go-to man for onscreen ass-kicking. The burly Irishman is at it again in Non-Stop, a thriller which sees Neeson play an Air Marshall who is tasked with finding a killer [...]

June 15, 2014

Hunt Down Liam Neeson In Joe Carnahan’s THE GREY

I didn’t catch The Grey when it first was first released. It came out smack-dab in the middle of Liam Neeson’s ageing action man run (which is still continuing) and I felt that it might be similar in quality to Neeson’s Taken and Unknown (i.e. [...]

June 9, 2013

Hollywood Salaries Have Been Taken To The Bank

Liam Neeson took home a $2 million payday for 2009’s Taken (a career best at the time). However, for Taken 2 the Irish actor was paid a very impressive $12 million upfront and he looks set to score much more with his back-end participation. [...]

October 13, 2012

NON-STOP Is ‘Die Hard’ On A Plane…With Liam Neeson

It looks like Liam Neeson is going to keep doing that middle-age action thing. The Irish actor is in the frame to star in producer Joel Silver’s latest action-fest Non-Stop. According to Variety: “Neeson is in talks to play a worn-out air [...]

April 4, 2012

DVD Review: Liam Neeson Does His Action Thing In UNKNOWN

In recent years Liam Neeson has re-imagined himself as the thinking man’s aging action hero. Taken saw him…er take his career to the next level, and he followed it up with The A-Team and now Unknown – a film, if the marketing materials [...]

March 31, 2012