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At this point, it’s hack to refer to Liam Neeson’s “very particular set of skills,” but there’s no denying that the actor has made his bread and butter parlaying just that in the past 15 years, playing variations on a theme in an array of B-movie thrillers. Neeson has enacted bloody revenge on a train, on a plane, in the snow, on a ranch, and now, in his native land, with “In the Land of Saints and Sinners,” a thriller set in Ireland during the Troubles, directed by Robert Lorenz, Clint Eastwood’s longtime producer, and the director of the 2021 Neeson film “The Marksman.”

Quinta Brunson will join comedians Bill Hader ("Barry") and Bowen Yang ("Saturday Night Live") in voicing a new animated version of the Dr. Seuss classic, "The Cat in the Hat."

Adam Sandler is working on a sequel to his hit comedy film “Happy Gilmore,” and already has a script written, according to actor Christopher McDonald, who played golf pro Shooter McGavin in the original film.

Steve Bagmanyan found his calling in a shop of broken instruments, tucked away in an industrial section of downtown Los Angeles. But each year, the shop breaks his heart.

A California bluegrass musician and fan of “Banjo Boy” Billy Redden from the Oscar nominated movie “Deliverance” recently started a GoFundMe page to help the Georgia man, who is now 67 and suffering from medical problems.

Margot Robbie will wave goodbye to Barbie world and hello to more nostalgic intellectual property when she starts production on a new a movie inspired by “The Sims.”

M. Emmet Walsh, a prolific film actor whose career spanned seven decades and who appeared in hit movies including “Knives Out,” “Blade Runner” and “Raising Arizona,” died Tuesday at age 88, Variety reported.

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Liam Neeson, known best for his action roles over the years, is going the comedic route starring in a “Naked Gun” reboot that will start shooting in Atlanta in May.

In 1966, when Random House published Truman Capote’s true-crime study “In Cold Blood,” his reputation as a brilliant writer was assured.

Buff British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has reportedly been offered the chance — and role — of a lifetime: James Bond. The “Bullet Train” star, 33, was “formally offered the job” of playing the suave spy, according to multiple outlets. It’s unclear whether he’s accepted the license to kill.

Blood-soaked and candlelit, Michael Mohan’s “Immaculate” disabuses the notion that any conception is ever without sin. Starring Sydney Sweeney (who also produced the film), this cheeky, freaky, lushly designed horror movie presents as a giallo nunsploitation riff, but the script, by Andrew Lobel, is much more “Rosemary’s Baby” than it is “The Devils.”

The new movie, “Little Wing,” which began streaming on Paramount+ on Wednesday, offers viewers performances by such high-profile actors as Brian Cox (“Succession”) and Kelly Reilly (“Yellowstone”), glimpses of Portland-area locations, and a story about the unlikely bond that forms between a troubled teenager and a gruff Vietnam veteran.

In his 1966 film “Blow-Up,” the great Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni tells a tale that explores the dangers of looking too far into in. David Hemmings plays a photographer obsessed with solving what he suspects is a murder, only to end up throwing an imaginary ball to a couple of mimes in a park.

The cinematic image of children boarding trains in World War II is typically a traumatic one. But in “One Life,” directed by James Hawes, it is a wildly, blindly hopeful image, as children board trains in Prague, bound for England, escaping dire conditions in refugee camps and the encroaching Nazi occupation, seemingly just steps away.

Move over Messi – there’s a new canine thespian in town. Ukai, the Australian shepherd/border collie/bouvier mix who stars opposite Mark Wahlberg in the new film “Arthur the King,” undertakes a performance that is more physically rigorous, if not dramatically suspenseful, than the one delivered by the French border collie who appeared in the Oscar-winning film “Anatomy of a Fall.”

In just the past few months, Sydney Sweeney has changed. Already a two-time Emmy nominee for her roles on “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus,” she starred in and produced the worldwide box-office hit “Anyone but You.” Such is Sweeney’s current career trajectory that she is unfazed by the severe, mocking response to the recent disappointment “Madame Web,” saying, “I was just hired as an actress in ...

The film that gives Travis Kelce his first billed credit as a movie producer received largely positive reviews and a standing ovation at its premiere. “My Dead Friend Zoe” debuted at the SXSW Film & TV Festival over the weekend. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is one of 10 executive producers.