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)…
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.
Protectors of Earth from the scum of the universe, the Men In Black are back with new F. Gary Gray-directed sci-fi/action/comedy, Men in Black – International.
Starring Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth, Liam Neeson and Rebecca Ferguson, the focus this time is on dealing with a new big threat, a mole in the Men in Black organisation.
The chemistry between Thompson and Hemsworth is great. I can’t wait to see this new ‘international’ angle. It helps that it’s partly set in my beloved London town, but really, this trailer is pretty well done.
I’ve been a fan of Rebecca Ferguson as an action star since Mission – Impossible Rogue Nation (2015), and now, based on this trailer, Tessa Thomson is looking like another new favourite.
Fingers crossed that Hemsworth’s seemingly British accent turns out well.
Emma Thompson, Rafe Spall, Kumail Nanjiani and Davina Sitaram also star.
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.
The Coen Brothers’ latest movie, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, features six different storylines about the American frontier that all centre on a man named Buster Scruggs.
James Franco, Liam Neeson, David Krumholtz, Brendan Gleeson and Zoe Kazan are among the stars.
I can’t say that this trailer has me especially excited, since very little happens in it. Nevertheless, it was great seeing Liam Neeson pop up. Overall, though, it’s really my love for Ethan and Joel Coen’s previous movies, namely True Grit (2010)and No Country for Old Men (2007), that are the real reasons I’m open to watching this.
Matthew Willig, Tim Blake Nelson, Saul Rubinek and Tom Waits also star.
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