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Liam Neeson
reboots
May 1, 2024
Liam Neeson to Star in
Naked Gun
Reboot
Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser have joined the police squad.
By
Bethy Squires
january movies
Jan. 30, 2024
Which January at the Movies Was the
Most
January?
We examined the 130 films to open wide in January over the past 15 years to find out which year was the most January of them all.
By
Nate Jones
vulture lists
Jan. 18, 2024
The 28 Best Movies Released During the January Dead Zone
January is often thought of as Hollywood’s prime “dump month” — but sometimes it surprises us.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Aug. 25, 2023
Liam Neeson Is Stuck in a Car and All Is Right With the World
Retribution
is a simple little thriller that works despite plot holes and predictability.
By
Bilge Ebiri
we love grogu
Feb. 17, 2023
Say That to Baby Yoda’s Face, Liam Neeson
Neeson thinks
Star Wars
spinoffs are “diluting” the franchise.
By
Jennifer Zhan
last night on late night
Feb. 16, 2023
Watch Liam Neeson (Stage) Punch Jimmy Fallon on
The Tonight Show
Showbiz!
By
Bethy Squires
movie review
Apr. 29, 2022
In
Memory,
Liam Neeson Gets to Act More Than Usual
Martin Campbell’s hitman-with-dementia film offers visceral violence and surprising anguish.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Feb. 11, 2022
The Liam Neeson Action Genre Deserves Better Than
Blacklight
This time, he’s a tormented, obsessive-compulsive FBI agent trying to protect his family while also saving democracy.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
June 25, 2021
The Ice Road
Is Somehow Both Really Smart and Really Stupid
It starts off as one kind of Liam Neeson movie and then becomes another kind of Liam Neeson movie.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Jan. 15, 2021
In
The Marksman
, Liam Neeson Idles in Place
He only kicks a moderate amount of ass in this one.
By
Bilge Ebiri
fall movies fantasy league
Oct. 20, 2020
Fall Movies Fantasy League Week 7 Results: Let’s Hear It for the Dads
Liam Neeson’s
Honest Thief
nabbed the No. 1 spot at the box office, becoming the second-highest-scoring movie in the league.
By
Nate Jones
movie review
Oct. 16, 2020
Honest Thief
Is Dadsploitation in a Minor Key
Yes, Liam Neeson is getting too old for this shit, but at least this movie realizes it.
By
Bilge Ebiri
grief
Aug. 11, 2020
The Agony of Liam Neeson, Action Star
Action movies often put their heroes’ families in danger, but Neeson’s efforts over the past decade have taken things to nightmarish levels.
By
Bilge Ebiri
apologies
Mar. 29, 2019
Liam Neeson Issues New Apology for Racist Revenge-Fantasy Anecdote
“What I failed to realize is that this is not about justifying my anger all those years ago, it is also about the impact my words have today.”
By
Halle Kiefer
box office
Feb. 10, 2019
Liam Neeson’s
Cold Pursuit
Does Very Badly at the Box Office
It got what you might call a chilly reception.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
movie review
Feb. 8, 2019
In
Cold Pursuit
, Liam Neeson Seems Done With the Dadsploitation Genre
It’s the latest (and last?) Neeson-starring entry in the middle-aged-man-goes-on-a-killing-spree sweepstakes.
By
Bilge Ebiri
what?
Feb. 5, 2019
Power Walking Cured Liam Neeson’s Racism, According to Liam Neeson
“Two hours every day, to get rid of this.”
By
Hunter Harris
movies
Dec. 20, 2018
Tessa Thompson Makes
Men in Black: International
Look Good
And Chris Hemsworth doesn’t hurt the aesthetic either.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
movie review
Nov. 9, 2018
In
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
, the Coens Take Old Westerns to a New Frontier
This might be their bleakest work of all, and one of their richest.
By
David Edelstein
party report
Oct. 23, 2018
Russell Crowe Reminisces About Reuniting With His
Gladiator
Horse on
Robin
Hood
“It’s not every horse that can be a great movie horse.”
By
Hunter Harris
horse news
Oct. 8, 2018
Liam Neeson Says Horse He Worked With Before Recognized Him on Set of New Movie
If Liam Neeson hand-fed you apples, you’d never forget him either.
By
Halle Kiefer
movies
Aug. 17, 2018
Liam Neeson Will Play a Snowplow Driver Hell-Bent on Revenge in
Hard Powder
His target? The drug cartel that murdered his son — obviously!
By
Jennifer Wood
first looks
June 1, 2018
Viola Davis! Liam Neeson! See First-Look Photos From Steve McQueen’s
Widows
Teaser trailer soon come!
By
Hunter Harris
cyril cinematic universe
Apr. 11, 2018
Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville Are Making an Irish Romance
Liam Neeson’s very particular skill set expands!
By
Hunter Harris
last night on late night
Jan. 20, 2018
Liam Neeson Couldn’t Muster a Word When He First Met Ex-Girlfriend Helen Mirren
“I was smitten.”
By
Devon Ivie
sexual harassment and assault
Jan. 12, 2018
Liam Neeson Thinks Hollywood’s Reckoning Is a ‘Bit of a Witch Hunt’
With regards to Garrison Keillor and Dustin Hoffman, specifically.
By
Halle Kiefer
Jan. 12, 2018
The Commuter
Is Exactly What You’d Expect — and Better Than You Need
The Liam Neeson action vehicle takes its mundane setting to heart, and is all the better for it.
By
Emily Yoshida
mark felt: the man who brought down the white house
Sept. 28, 2017
The Long, Strange Journey to Find a Title for the Deep Throat Biopic
What do you do when your subject is best known for a name he shares with a porno?
By
Nate Jones
career changes
Sept. 12, 2017
Liam Neeson Is Done With Action Movies, No Matter How Much You’ll Pay Him
“Guys, I’m sixty-fucking-five.”
By
Jordan Crucchiola
Aug. 29, 2017
Liam Neeson Brings Down The President in The Trailer for This Deep Throat Biopic
Curious timing for an informant biopic.
By
Hunter Harris
roll clip!
Mar. 25, 2017
Liam Neeson, Anna Kendrick, John Boyega Want to Be Stephen Hawking’s New Voice
Eddie Redmayne isn’t dealing with this dude again without a big payday.
By
Karen Brill
casting couch
Mar. 5, 2017
Liam Neeson Rumored to Be Viola Davis’s Husband in Steve McQueen’s
Widows
The heist thriller also stars Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, and Michelle Rodriguez.
By
Tolly Wright
the industry
Jan. 31, 2017
Liam Neeson’s Next Movie Sounds Really Neeson-y
Prepare to
Run All Night
into
The Grey
after you’ve been
Taken
on
A Walk Among the Tombstones
.
By
Jordan Crucchiola
movie review
Dec. 20, 2016
Martin Scorsese’s
Silence
Is a Challenging Saga of Faith and Martyrdom
The director is attempting to make you see things as no one has before: with pity, terror, and — maybe hardest of all to induce — a gnawing ambivalence.
By
David Edelstein
last night on late night
Dec. 17, 2016
Liam Neeson’s Santa Claus Has a Very Particular Set of Gifts
He sees you. He sees you when you’re sleeping.
By
Halle Kiefer
party lines
Dec. 9, 2016
Scorsese Is Torn About
Silence
’s Missionary Work
The director called it “a wound that has yet to heal.”
By
Jennifer Vineyard
trailer mix
Nov. 23, 2016
Watch the Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s
Silence
Holy hell, being a Jesuit priest in 17th-century Japan is intense.
By
Tolly Wright
Sept. 26, 2016
Martin Scorsese’s
Silence
Will Come Out This Year After All
It’s about Jesuit missionaries in Japan.
By
Nate Jones
casting couch
Aug. 23, 2016
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga Join Liam Neeson in
The Commuter
The pair will take a break from exploring the realm of the supernatural for Jaume Collet-Serra’s next action thriller.
By
Jordan Crucchiola
trailer mix
July 13, 2016
Liam Neeson Is a Tree in
A Monster Calls
Trailer
Tale as old as time.
By
Madeline Raynor
and
Jackson McHenry
casting couch
May 12, 2016
Liam Neeson Starring in Another Action Thriller
He’ll star in the American remake of the Norwegian film
In Order of Disappearance.
By
Devon Ivie
trailer mix
Nov. 19, 2015
Trailer Liam Neeson’s
A Monster Calls
Liam Neeson’s voice is like a fleece blanket.
By
Emma Barrie
last night on late night
Nov. 11, 2015
Take a Look at Colbert’s
Candy Crush
Movie
R.I.P., Mr. Toffee.
By
Sean Fitz-Gerald
the industry
Nov. 4, 2015
Deep Throat Movie to Let Liam Neeson Show Off a New Particular Set of Skills
He’ll play Mark Felt in a biopic of the famed whistle-blower.
By
Nate Jones
mean tweets
Sept. 25, 2015
It’s Time for Mean Tweets: Live Edition!
They’re rubber and you’re glue!
By
E. Alex Jung
the industry
Sept. 18, 2015
NBC Is Making a
Taken
TV Show
No Neesons, though?
By
Nate Jones
last night on late night
June 23, 2015
Seth MacFarlane Crushed This Liam Neeson Impression on Fallon
On the flip side, he also did a pretty crappy Ray Romano impression.
By
Sean Fitz-Gerald
vulture lists
Mar. 20, 2015
Which
Taken
Knockoff Is the Best? We Ranked All 14 of Them
Which
Taken
clones are actually worth your time?
By
Adam Sternbergh
bedtime stories
Mar. 12, 2015
Liam Neeson Reads a Bedtime Story, Intimidates Your Kids to Sleep
Someone call a vet.
By
Lindsey Weber
prank calls
Jan. 10, 2015
Listen to Liam Neeson Prank-Call Maggie Grace’s Ex-Boyfriend
Don’t mess with Liam Neeson.
By
E. Alex Jung
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