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IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS

March 30, 2024 By Leave a Comment

IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS

IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS is a melancholy study of the futility of violence. Set in the war-torn Northern Ireland of 1974, it features a performance by Liam Neeson that is considered, measured, and infinitely eloquent for its silences in a story that eschews politics as it finely observes the consequences of choices,… Read More »

Tagged With: 1974, bombing, generational violence, genially flirting, hit man, Northern Ireland, political violence, The Troubles

MEMORY

May 4, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MEMORY

Based on the delightfully quirky 2003 Belgian film, The Memory of a Killer, MEMORY has the makings of a solid neo-noir. Alas, rather than a tight script to match its excellent visual acuity, MEMORY rambles too much before leading us down the familiar path of corruption in high places and the loss of innocence across… Read More »

Tagged With: Child sex trafficker, corruption, Early onset Alzheimer's, El Paso, hitman, Mexico, pigeons in a bakery, remake, The Memory of A Killer

MADE IN ITALY

August 9, 2020 By Leave a Comment

MADE IN ITALY

A story well told is always worth our attention, and thus it is with MADE IN ITALY, a heart-warming tale of coming to terms with the past in order to face a future without the burden of unresolved grief and lingering complacency. Set for the most part in the spectacular Tuscan countryside, its pacing and… Read More »

Tagged With: broken heart, divorce, estrangement, father-son relationship, grief, guilt, Italy, remodeling, Tuscany

MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL

June 16, 2019 By Leave a Comment

MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL

When a once profitable film franchise begins to fade, the studios that have reaped the benefits of same are left with little choice about how to handle it. With so much money at stake, both in ticket sales and ancillary merchandise on the line, they can’t just let it slip away with dignity. No, they… Read More »

Tagged With: aliens, franchise, reboot, sequel

THE COMMUTER

January 11, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE COMMUTER

It’s all about what you want from a Liam Neeson action flick. That and managing expectations. Will it be great art?  Probably not. Will it be fun?  Maybe.  In this case, it is. In THE COMMUTER, Neeson is an ordinary ex-cop turned insurance salesman named Mike, living paycheck to paycheck with his beloved wife (Elizabeth… Read More »

Tagged With: blackmail, firing, mystery, train crash

SILENCE

January 6, 2017 By Leave a Comment

SILENCE

Academics are taught to write with a dispassionate yet highly detailed style for their scholarly treatises.  That is the approach that Martin Scorsese has taken with SILENCE, his philosophically dense and immaculately rendered film of Shusaku Endo’s book of the same name. The result is a maddening film more to be admired than enjoyed as… Read More »

Tagged With: 17th century, book to screen, Christian missionaries, conversion, Japan, Jesuits, martydom, prosecution

RUN ALL NIGHT with Liam Neeson

March 22, 2015 By Leave a Comment

RUN ALL NIGHT with Liam Neeson

There is a reason that there is a rigid formula for Liam Neeson action films:  it has a tendency to hit more than it misses.  In RUN ALL NIGHT, the tropes are all present and accounted for with the variations that are permitted within the formula’s rules.  Neeson is the everyman with, you will pardon… Read More »

Tagged With: action, Common, crime thriller, drama, Ed Harris, explosion, father-son relationship, fistfight, gunfight, Jaume Collet-Serra, Joel Kinnaman, Liam Neeson, narrative, New York City, suspense, Vincent D'Onofrio

TAKEN 3

January 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

TAKEN 3

  And so once again we are in the company of Bryan Mills and his very specific skill set as brought to life by the incomparable Liam Neeson.   The one-man demolition squad, trained by the darkest of black ops, is once again called into action when his family is threatened.  Fortunately, this is no irksome… Read More »

Tagged With: action, cinema, film, Forrest Whitaker, Liam Neeson, movie

PONYO (GAKE NO UE NO PONYO)

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Hayao Miyasaki’s PONYO is a sweet-natured flight of fantasy that lacks any real sense of conflict or danger. It makes up for it, at least for the younger set, with a delightfully absurd internal logic that is perfectly keyed into the way small children see the world. All things are possible, including a little girl… Read More »

CLASH OF THE TITANS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It takes about 15 minutes to realize that the remake of CLASH OF THE TITANS is an irredeemable loss. Unfortunately, there is still another 105 minutes or so to endure until the ordeal is over. Where the original, no masterpiece to be sure, had a cheesy sort of charm, this offers only the irritation of… Read More »

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