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Note on reviews: I try not to spoil what I would consider major plot revelations in any of my reviews, but I do like to talk about movies in a way that would be meaningful to someone who has seen the film. Thus, assume there are probably more spoilers than ...

This review was originally written for my high school newspaper, so it's a little weird. Enjoy!The advertising for The Grey would lead one to believe that it is simply a movie about Liam Neeson punching wolves. Although that in itself would make an entertaining film, The Grey aspires for something ...

In my minutely-partitioned movie collection, there is a little section I like to call “old men kicking ass.” The subgenre hit its peak in 2008 when Hollywood realized the youth demographic revered the aging action stars from the 70s and 80s (Chuck Norris jokes may be somewhat responsible). We saw ...

Liam Neeson's career has been gone through a rather confusing track over the past decade or so. Though he has been around since the late seventies in some incarnation or another, Neeson really came into the public consciousness with 1996's Schindler's List and 1999's Star Wars Episode I: the Phantom ...

MINI-REVIEW!!!"OH SHIT, WOLVES." Okay, that's not really a quote from the film... maybe it was, I don't know. Anyway-"Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I'll ever know. Live or die on this day. Live or die on this day."---For humans, change generally comes when we get ...

Spoiler alert: In the eternal conflict between Man and Nature, even if you're Liam Neeson, Nature ultimately wins.Or maybe it doesn't. The film is ambiguous on some key things, including the ending, and this is to its credit. On the surface, it's a very simple, Jack London/Alive type of adventure ...