The Review at the End of the Universe
Star Wars Day (May the 4th) is upon us once again and Kneel Before Pod continues its annual discussion of the Star Wars movies in release order. This year it’s time to venture into Prequel Country with the 1999 release Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The team discusses how good the word…
An insurance salesman is dragged into a criminal conspiracy on his usual train home in Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Commuter. Liam Neeson has carved out a niche as an older action hero since 2008’s Taken. He has been in a variety of action movies that have varied in quality since and this outing is reportedly the…
Two Christian Missionaries try to spread the word of God in 17th century Japan and face no end of violence and persecution. in Martin Scorsese’s Silence. This is a difficult film for me to review as there’s very little technically wrong with it. Despite that I found it very difficult to engage with the material…
A young boy seeks the help of a magical tree monster to help heal his terminally ill mother in J.A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls. This is a difficult film to talk about as the plot description I put in the intro paragraph is actually pretty far from what this film is about so I’m just…
Ted 2 returns Seth MacFarlane to the role of the foul mouthed sentient bear as well as the directors chair as Ted campaigns for his right to be seen as a person in the eyes of the law. The film opens with Ted marrying his girlfriend from the first film Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) and progresses through…
Jaume Collet-Serra’s Run All Night gives audiences their second Liam Neeson action vehicle of the year casting the aging Irish actor in the role of a father doing everything he can to protect his son from being killed. Seeing Liam Neeson in an action role is not unusual these days since Taken allowed him to…
The Taken franchise reaches a third installment with Taken 3 where Liam Neeson’s Bryan Mills is on the run from the law after being accused of murdering his ex wife Lenore (Famke Janssen). Taken was a nice surprise in 2008 because it put Liam Neeson in an action heavy role and was actually really believable….
Scott Frank writes and directs this adaptation of the Lawrence Block novel A Walk Among the Tombstones where Matthew Scudder (Liam Neeson) is hired by drug kingpin Kenny Kristo (Dan Stevens) to investigate the capture and murder of his wife. Through his investigation Scutter uncovers a more sinister agenda than he originally thought. As described…
