Article: Seth MacFarlane’s “A Million Ways to Die in the West” full cast revealed
Everyone from Charlize Theron to Neil Patrick Harris star.
“Arrested Development”‘s tear-jerking “Peanuts” song gag returns triumphantly in season 4
Bill Hader dishes on Justin Bieber to Stern
Ken Jeong talks stunts, breaking tropes and the evolution of Mr. Chow in “The Hangover 3″
David Cross and Portia de Rossi describe Lindsay and Tobias’s “trajectory of sadness” in “Arrested Development” season 4
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Article: Tim Grierson on the Oscar Nominations That Will Never Happen (But Really Should)
The Academy Award nominees will be revealed on Thursday. Our columnist picks some of the movies and performances he’d love to hear mentioned — even though he knows they don’t have a prayer.
Article: “Taken 3″ is already in the works
Screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen is already working on a story for the new film.
Article: “Taken 2″ international trailer shows Maggie Grace taking charge
She needs to save the day after Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen are “taken.”
Article: “Taken 2″ trailer teases a badass Liam Neeson
Except this time he’s being rescued by his daughter.
Article: “Taken 2″ poster teases a hunted Liam Neeson
The sequel comes out October 5.
Article: First images from “Taken 2″ show off Liam Neeson’s particular set of skills
Liam Neeson’s 2008 action film “Taken” was a surprise hit when it arrived in theaters and introduced audiences to former special-ops agent Bryan Mills, a man with a “particular set of skills” that allowed him to rescue his daughter after she was kidnapped while traveling overseas. The film earned more than $226 million worldwide, so…
Article: Liam Neeson in “The Dark Knight Rises” officially confirmed
It’s been pretty much confirmed in the past, but if you were in desperate need of some definitive proof, you now have it. Warner Bros has announced that Liam Neeson will be reprising his role as Ra’s al Ghul in “The Dark Knight Rises.” Of course, they didn’t just come right out and say it,…
Article: “Wrath of the Titans” trailer prepares you for oblivion
Things get crazy the second time around. Will the Greek gods ever learn their lesson?
Article: Sneaky Previews: Beware the trailer for “The Grey”
“The Grey” with Liam Neeson opens this weekend. It’s a good movie. I’m just not sure it’s this movie: When that trailer hit the Internet a few months ago “The Grey” quickly garnered a jokey reputation online as “The Movie Where Liam Neeson Punches Wolves.” I don’t really want to spoil the film for you,…
Article: Liam Neeson confirms “The Dark Knight Rises” scene
Long rumored for a return role in “The Dark Knight Rises,” Liam Neeson has now confirmed his presence in Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman film. Neeson debuted as the villain Ra’s Al Ghul way back in 2005′s franchise-starting “Batman Begins,” and given the character’s immortal nature in the comics world, there’s been much speculation…
Article: New “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D” posters put the Force that much closer to being with you
The posters actually do look pretty darn cool.
Article: New “Battleship” trailer is chock-full of aliens, explosions and Rihanna
Don’t expect a “You sunk my battleship” in this end of the woods. A new trailer for “Battleship” is part “Transformers,” part “Armageddon,” part “Independence Day” and part “Halo,” making the Peter Berg-directed flick looks like a big budget end-of-the-world romp that we can sort of get behind. It definitely shows a new aspect of…
Article: George Lucas now editing his posters in addition to his movies
The changes George Lucas has made over the years to his “Star Wars” franchise are well-documented. Given that he just tweaked the films again for the new Blu-ray box set, I thought we wouldn’t be getting any more changes, at least for a little while. But the just released poster for the upcoming 3D version…
Article: First “Battleship” trailer brings the oceanic alien spaceship action
The first trailer for “Battleship” has finally arrived online, and it’s chock full of all the explosive, CGI action that we’ve been led to believe the 2012 film will feature. Based on the Hasbro naval combat game of the same name, “Battleship” is directed by Peter Berg (“Hancock”) and stars a long list of young…
Article: Liam Neeson Heads Into the “Unknown” (and “Hangover 2″)
Liam Neeson doesn’t have much luck in Europe. His daughter goes there in “Taken” and she gets taken, and he had to kill an awful lot of human traffickers to get her back. In the upcoming film “Unknown,” he travels to Berlin, and awakes after a car wreck to find his identity, well, taken, by…
Article: Great moments in trailer failure: “After.Life.”
If your trailer can’t win a multiplex audience over — if, in fact, it incites active derision — you’re in serious trouble. Such proved to be the case this weekend with “After.Life,” the upcoming, oddly punctuated Christina Ricci-Liam Neeson horror movie (or whatever it actually is — it’s hard to tell). The “After.Life” trailer was…
Article: Investigating Sex with Atom Egoyan
Since his 1984 directorial debut “Next of Kin” and throughout his long and twice Academy Award-nominated career, Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan (“Exotica,” “The Sweet Hereafter”) has regularly and artfully explored familial and marital dynamics through the filters of disconnection, struggle and cultural identity — personal motifs that reflect his Egyptian birth to Armenian parents. However,…
Article: What Lies Beneath
With its embrace of genre and slick production values, “Chloe” represents director Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”) and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson’s (“Secretary” and “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus”) most mainstream efforts to date. Cue the “not there’s anything wrong with that.” In fact, in many ways this chilly romantic thriller does provide…
Article: Clash of the Titans, horrible hard rock score, Muse.
The original 1981 “Clash of the Titans,” was an authentic fantasy, what we used to call an epic adventure, before that word was mangled by leet teenagers on the internets. Though It employed stop motion, it still managed to dazzle with it’s special effects at the time, especially where it combined techniques – as it…
Article: Did Jennifer Aniston and Liam Neeson sink a distributor?
2009 has been a year in which home video companies attempted to make a splash in the theatrical market and wound up doing a belly flop instead. While there doesn’t seem to be any permanent damage to Anchor Bay’s business from theatrical non-starters like Ashton Kutcher’s “Spread” after years of making a mint on DVD…
Article: Voicing Celebrity Concerns
Movie stars sell movie tickets, but do they also sell video games? The latest title to put this question to the test is “Brütal Legend,” a new action-adventure title set in a heavy-metal land of mythic creatures and crushing tunes that stars Tenacious D frontman and “School of Rock” maestro Jack Black as the voice…
Article: “Chloe” and Canadians
The Toronto International Film Festival starts next Thursday! September 10! Who’s excited? Well, you should be: even if you (like me) can’t attend, Toronto unveils much of what devoted filmgoers can look forward to over the next half-year or so. I’ll be keeping an eye on the festival’s high-profile premieres (and perhaps even more so…
Article: Sam Raimi Drags Us To Hell
Sam Raimi’s long-anticipated “return to form” “Drag Me To Hell” hits theaters this Friday, a horror-comedy B-movie that pits a loan officer (Alison Lohman) against a three-day-long gypsy curse. On this week’s IFC News podcast, we discuss the film and Raimi’s career to date, including our favorite underrated Raimi features and whether he has an…
