Film Review: Cold Pursuit (2019)
In the world of unnecessary remakes, Hans Petter Moland’s Cold Pursuit probably sits up there with Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, David Fincher’s The Girl…
Liam Neeson
Film Review: Widows (2018)
A film passes the Bechdel test when it meets three criteria: “(1) it has to have at least two women in it, who (2)…
Film Review: The Commuter (2018)
Before you ask, yes, he says it. Well, not the whole thing. But he does comes close. “I will kill you,” Liam Neeson declares…
Film Review: A Monster Calls (2016)
A Monster Calls begins with the explanation that its story starts “with a boy too old to be a kid, too young to be…
Film Analysis: Scorsese’s Cinema of Religion
There is no doubt that Martin Scorsese is most renowned for his Italian-American crime dramas of the ‘70s and ’80s. It would not be surprising…
Film Review: Silence (2016)
The silence in the title of Martin Scorsese’s most recent film refers to the silence of the voice of God, when one is alone…
Film Review: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
Since his last cinematic appearance in 2012, Jack Reacher has been drifting. His favourite place these days seems to be walking along dilapidated roads…
Film Review: Blood Father (2016)
Most of what runs through the veins of the Mel Gibson-starring Blood Father seems like another ‘Old White Guy’s Still Got It’ kind of…
Film Review: Run All Night (2015)
No doubt audiences will be beyond shocked to find Liam Neeson brandishing a gun in his latest action movie. Who could have possibly seen…
Film Review: Taken 3 (2015)
Thankfully, this time no one gets abducted, apparently due to Liam Neeson’s request that the film go in a different direction. This being the…