Liam Neeson’s latest movie is Made in Italy, a comedy about a bohemian artist who travels from London to Italy with his estranged son. They’re there to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
Written/directed by James D’Arcy; additional key cast includes Valeria Bilello and Michael Richardson.
It may or may not be true that one of the main reasons I’m interested in this movie is to ‘spend some time in Italy‘. I mean, I like Neeson too, and I’m hoping for some laughs, but you know, it’s Italy
Lindsay Duncan, Marco Quaglia, Gian Marco Tavani and Helena Antonio also star.
Ordinary Love (2019), Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville
Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville and David Wilmot are the stars of Ordinary Love, the new Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn-directed drama/romance about an everyday couple with a remarkable love.
A couple whose endearing devotion is clearly seen after a breast cancer diagnosis. One that sets them on a path to find the humour and grace to survive a year of adversity.
I’m ready to see this beautiful version of love and can’t wait to watch Neeson in this non-action movie role.
Is this movie likely to make all single people feel more single than ever before? Absolutely! So, let’s get ready to ‘suffer’ for this promising piece of art.
One more thing, unsurprisingly, perhaps, but I simply can’t see the words ‘ordinary love’ and not instantly think of Sade’s beautiful classic song, No Ordinary Love. You’re welcome.
Fo Cullen, Chloë Ní Dhúada, Matthew Sharpe, Vivien Monory, Stella McCusker, Desmond Edwards, Maggie Cronin, Melanie Clark Pullen, Geraldine McAlinden, Lalor Roddy, Esh Alladi and Amit Shah also star.
Ordinary Love Release Dates: December 6th, 2019 (UK); …2019 (US)…
Men In Black – International (2019), Emma Thompson, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Instead of the focus being solely on a big alien threat that needs eliminating, in Men In Black – International,there’s the pressing matter of a mole within the MIB organisation to deal with.
Starring Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Liam Neeson and Emma Thompson, my favourite thing about Men in Black – International is the visual effects and Emma Thompson’s character. All the other key characters weren’t terrible, but unfortunately, the script for director F. Gary Gray’s movie just seemed overly complicated, and not as exciting as initially hoped.
Hemsworth and T. Thompson’s chemistry did help matters. Nevertheless, approximately twenty minutes into the movie, I realised I was missing Will Smith’sMen In Black (1997)performance. There’s something about his comedic expertise that I feel would have added an extra layer of humour and fun to this film. To be clear, I’m definitely not saying ‘Put Smith in this movie and it would have been great overall’, because for that to be true, a much better story and script is required. I just think that Men In Black – International could have been better, more exciting and funny.
One other little highlight is the well-choreographed fight scenes. They helped me to stop dwelling too much on some of the dodgy dialogue, the cheap plastic toy gun noises made by some of the MIB weapons early on in the movie and and my general disappointment.
Watch Men In Black – International if you’re curious. It’s kind of fun. It’s just not especially good.
Widows (2018), Liam Neeson, Viola Davis, 20th Century Fox
There are a couple of unexpected turns I enjoyed in Steve McQueen’s crime/thriller, Widows. A story about four women in need of a way to survive after their husbands’ criminal activities leave them in huge debt.
Starring Viola Davis, Colin Farrell, Daniel Kaluuya, Liam Neeson, and Robert Duvall, Widows is, without a doubt, very well acted and devoid of any dull moments.
I’ll start by saying that I generally appreciate the quality in movies where everything isn’t overly explained. I like moments where the audience is trusted to connect the dots and make sense of things. Widows is a movie that has a handful of such moments. Yet, the ending aside, McQueen’s film feels oddly incomplete.
The feeling of incompleteness comes first from not knowing enough of the backstory of some of the characters. We learn a fair amount about some key players, but we’re left wanting when it comes to Cynthia Erivo’s very intriguing Belle, for example.
Widows (2018), Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Rodriguez, 20th Century Fox
There are questions I had about one or two of the dead bodies and how they were disposed of. If you’ve watched Widows, you may be reading this and be thinking: ‘The brown notebook, silly!’ And you wouldn’t be wrong. Nevertheless, I still wanted to be fully convinced by how the story played out, especially when it came to the widows’ turn to criminality. Unfortunately, even though I came close to being convinced, I just wasn’t – not completely.
I’ve seen far too many television crime dramas/thrillers, which show just the right amount, for me to buy a story wholeheartedly, which is why I can say that Widows may have been better suited to a miniseries format. That way, it wouldn’t feel quite so heavily edited and in draft form. There’d be more time for me to get to know a greater number of the characters more satisfyingly.
My favourite performance in Widows is delivered by Farrell. I enjoyed watching his super-entitled politician’s son character and listening to what sounded like a very convincing accent. Elizabeth Debicki also delivered some fun turns I wanted more of.
Overall, Widows may not be my favourite McQueen movie, but it isn’t all bad either. Watch it if you’re curious. You may find it more complete than I do.
Based on 2014’s Norwegian movie, In Order of Disappearance, new action/thriller Cold Pursuit stars Liam Neeson as a snowplow driver seeking revenge against the drug dealers he thinks killed his son.
Directed by Hans Petter Moland; additional key cast includes Emmy Rossum and Tom Bateman.
There’s the obvious Taken (2018) vibes which make up part of the appeal of this movie. The story does intrigue me but I just want to see Liam Neeson kick ass in his special Neeson style.
William Forsythe, Laura Dern, Julia Jones, Elysia Rotaru, Domenick Lombardozzi and Raoul Max Trujillo also star.
