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Posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 by Ben Pearson Liam Neeson movie characters have faced some pretty extreme challenges over the past decade or so: a missing daughter, surviving a plane crash, releasing the Kraken, fighting aliens on a battleship, and stopping bad guys on various forms of transportation, including a plane, a train, and a snow plow. Now he’s facing off against the only foe that he may be able to beat temporarily, but that is sure to get the best of him in the end: time. In Th...

The Ice Road Trailer Puts Liam Neeson in a Dangerous Truck Mission for Netflix Liam Neeson is once again getting really cold as Netflix has debuted the trailer for its upcoming action thriller, The Ice Road. The actor has a small sub-genre of cold weather thrillers under his winter jacket, including the absolutely fantastic The Ice Road looks like it’s going to land somewhere in the middle of the two in terms of quality. Then again, any film where Neeson utters the line, “Now I’m angry...

Netflixs The Ice Road Trailer Puts Liam Neesons Latest Mission on Thin Ice Netflixs The Ice Road Trailer Puts Liam Neesons Latest Mission on Thin Ice The first trailer for The Ice Road has been released on Netflix ahead of its arrival on the streaming service next month. Netflix has released the first trailer for The Ice Road. This is the latest action flick with Liam Neeson at the center of it. Neeson was once a man known for his more serious roles in movies such as Schindlers List, Gangs o...

Barry Jenkins's adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel hits you with shock and awe. TV review by Adam Sweeting

The Underground Railroad review – harrowing, magical, masterful TV Lucy Mangan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios Director Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s prizewinning novel The Underground Railroad (Amazon) is as unbearably bleak, brutal and brilliant as the book. You could question a couple of the choices made while translating the magical-realist tale of black slavery from page to screen – why devote all of one of the ...

Skins was one of the best shows we all indulged in growing up. Despite it giving us all a misrepresentation of what college and/or sixth form would be like, it dived into issues like drug abuse, mental health, eating disorders, and sexuality. There were some pretty messed up things that happened in Skins, and every young person who watched all three generations of the show attended college only to be met with disappointment. In reality, studying for your A-levels was a lot less chaotic than a g...

Amazon Boss Explains Why The Lord of the Rings TV Show Needs to Have a $465M Budget Amazon Boss Explains Why The Lord of the Rings TV Show Needs to Have a $465M Budget The producers of the upcoming The Lord of the Rings series believe the shows massive price tag is well worth it. The success of Game of Thrones for HBO finally proved beyond a doubt that grand fantasy epics with massive budgets can find a home on the small screen. Now, it seems only fitting that the new "most expensive fantasy s...

Giacometti brothers lead Bonhams sale with two masterpieces Diego Giacometti (1902-1985), Carcasse a la Chauve-Souris Table, circa 1965. Estimate: $300,000 – 500,000. Photo: Bonhams. NEW YORK, NY .- Two exemplary works by Alberto and Diego Giacometti will lead Bonhams Modern Decorative Art & Design Sale on Friday, June 11 in New York. The items on offer include a 1930s Tete de Femme Floor Lamp by legendary sculptor Alberto Giacometti and a Carcasse a la Chauve-Souris Table made thirty years la...

Rolling Stone ‘The Underground Railroad’: Barry Jenkins’ Gorgeous Journey Into American Darkness The director’s 10-part adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an escaped slave is visually stunning and emotionally wrenching By Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios Moonlight director will pause the story to present a tableau of his huge cast of black characters. These shots are stunning in their composition, as if Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton are painting a...

Best New Scary Horror Movies Now Streaming on HBO Max (May 2021) Best New Scary Horror Movies Now Streaming on HBO Max (May 2021) including ANACONDA, Wes Cravens CURSED, MORTAL KOMBAT (1995), David Cronenbergs RABID, and more. Anaconda, Wes Craven’s Rabid, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) While still a boy, Abraham Lincoln loses his mother to a vampire’s bite. He vows revenge, but fails in the attempt, narrowly escaping with his life. He is rescued by Henry (Dominic Cooper), a chari...