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Liam Neeson: I'm retiring from ass-kicking before I need a walker
January 15, 2021 | 11:50amHe's "Taken" a permanent break from beating bad guy butt.
Liam Neeson's son is an eco-conscious clothing designer
November 1, 2019 | 8:08pmDaniel Neeson is bona fide Hollywood royalty, but he’s not pursuing the family business. Instead, the 23-year-old son of Liam Neeson and the late Natasha Richardson is busy launching the...
Sad lesson behind ridiculous Neeson backlash
February 9, 2019 | 10:19pmAdd Liam Neeson to the list of victims of what’s been dubbed “offense archeology” — social-media mobs that comb the past of prominent people searching for a youthful misdeed with...
'Cold Pursuit' is the best thing about Liam Neeson's horrible week
February 8, 2019 | 6:27pmIt’s been a really no good, rotten, bad week for Liam Neeson the person. While promoting his new movie, “Cold Pursuit,” the 66-year-old actor gave one of the most boneheaded...
Steven Spielberg: People had 'breakdowns' on the set of 'Schindler's List'
April 27, 2018 | 11:44amLast night, the Tribeca Film Festival hosted a 25th-anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning 1993 Holocaust drama “Schindler’s List,” the true story of a Nazi businessman who saved more than...
How Liam Neeson turned a Metro-North commute into a thrill ride
January 11, 2018 | 5:52pmThe Winter of Hell might be fully upon us, with subway and train delays due to the big freeze and work on the tracks — but at least your evening...
How to stay sane and cope with commuting headaches
January 7, 2018 | 4:07pmLast December, Bridgit Kasperski hopped onto the 2 train at the end of her busy day at global communications marketing firm Edelman in Tribeca. On this day, however, she experienced...
This movie managed to make Deep Throat boring
September 28, 2017 | 3:56pmThe new movie about Watergate is so boring that when whistleblower Mark Felt (Liam Neeson) finally meets up with Bob Woodward (Julian Morris) in a shadowy parking garage, you may...
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ is a long, slow slog
December 20, 2016 | 10:32am“Silence” comes to us billed as 30 years in the making. Unfortunately, it plays like 30 years in the watching. Set in 17th-century Japan, Martin Scorsese’s long, low-energy picture is...
And now for Felicity Jones in something completely different
December 20, 2016 | 10:24amA 12-year-old boy develops a friendship with a fantastical tree-being (voiced by Liam Neeson) in this wrenching magical-realist drama about love and mortality. Conor (Lewis MacDougall), a budding artist like...
6 actors who were almost cast as James Bond
September 3, 2015 | 6:18pmOver the past five decades, six actors have stepped onto the big screen as the ageless agent 007, beginning with Sean Connery in 1962’s “Dr. No.” After Connery, George Lazenby,...
Salma Hayek's animated take on 'The Prophet' soars
August 5, 2015 | 2:37pmAn animated movie of the book of musings by Lebanon’s famed poet, produced by Salma Hayek, sounds like a terrible idea — until you see it. Framed by the story...
Celebs rally for the Rangers during the Stanley Cup Playoffs
May 14, 2015 | 10:32amLiam Neeson, Ansel Elgort and more cheer on the blueshirts during the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Liam Neeson’s ‘Run All Night’ is a serviceable mob thriller
March 12, 2015 | 3:03pmIn mob thriller “Run All Night,” Ed Harris tells Liam Neeson, “We did what we did because we had to.” But some crimes can’t be forgiven, like “National Treasure: Book...
Why Liam Neeson needs to close up that can of whoop-ass
March 11, 2015 | 12:26pmLast winter’s Liam Neeson action movie was called “Non-Stop.” The next one should be called “Please-Stop.” According to the trailer of this week’s Liam Neeson Ass-Kick Flick (TM), “Run All...
8 of Liam Neeson's most badass roles
January 8, 2015 | 1:24pmIf there’s one man whom big screen baddies don’t want to mess with, it’s Liam Neeson. The Hollywood action star has taken down countless foes — whether of the human...
Why Cameron Diaz is this year's top Turkey
November 25, 2014 | 5:33amAs Jennifer Lopez said to Ben Affleck when they were preparing to have sex in the notorious “Gigli’’ — “It’s turkey time. Gobble, gobble.’’ And in this case, you don’t...
The best Twitter reactions to the new 'Taken 3' trailer
October 2, 2014 | 3:09pmYou'd think that the bad guys would have learned their lesson by now. You’d also like to believe that there aren’t any family members left to kidnap. But no. Liam...
Liam Neeson is still a badass in new 'Tak3n' trailer
September 30, 2014 | 5:14pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuU0M2xBasc Liam Neeson is still kicking ass and taking names. The seasoned action star is back as former government operative Bryan Mills in the third (and final) installment of the...
'Tombstones' is a throwback to '70s private-eye shows
September 18, 2014 | 10:20amThey don’t make ’em like “A Walk Among the Tombstones” any more. Mainly because everyone got bored with ’em and stopped watching ’em. Based on a Lawrence Block novel, the...