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Movie Review: Run All Night

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RELEASE DATE: March 13, 2015
STUDIO: Warner Bros. Pictures
DIRECTOR: Jaume Collett-Sera
MPAA RATING: R (for strong violence, language including sexual references, and some drug use)
SCREENWRITER: Brad Ingelsby
STARRING: Liam Neeson, Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Vincent D’Onofrio, Joel Kinnaman, Patricia Kalember, Genesis Rodriguez, Boyd Holbrook
GENRE: Action
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There’s a saying, “If you’ve seen one Liam Neeson movie then you’ve seen them all.” OK, maybe that’s just a quote from me but, since Taken he’s made a lot of movies where he’s a badass with issues. Believe me, I’m a fan (I believe that few do the tortured, drunken, ass kicker looking for redemption better than Neeson), but, much like Melissa McCarthy the act is getting old. So here we have “Run All Night”. A movie about Jimmy Conlon an old, down and out trigger man who has alienated his family and is the butt of jokes from his organized crime peers. He grew up with the big boss Shawn Maguire so, he gets a life long pass. After one fateful incident involving Shawn’s son Danny trying to kill Jimmy’s son Mike, Shawn and Jimmy’s friendship is tested. Now Jimmy has one night to set everything right for killing Maguire’s son with his former associates, the cops, and a hired assassin after them both. Will they both make it through the night or will Shawn have his revenge ?

My favorite thing about this movie is the fact that the action is very dirty and realistic. Most of the fights are up close and rough hand to hand encounters. This actually works well with Neeson being the age he is while fighting younger guys. It allows him to take a whooping but triumph in the end believably. Common comes across well as the emotionless killing machine Andrew Price. Ed Harris well as the world weary gangster Shawn Maguire. He seems like a genuinely good guy who just so happens to have had many people killed and engaged in numerous crimes. His and Jimmy’s friendship seems genuine when they interact with each other. The acting in the dramatic parts are done well. Mike Conlon is played by Joel Kinnaman of Robocop and The Killing fame. He holds his own in the scraps and the dramatic sections as well as anyone else.

As an action movie it’s pretty good. The acting is a step above most others in the genre and the fights and chase scenes are done well. It won’t change the way these things are made but it’s a decent way to spend two hours.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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