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In the Land of Saints & Sinners(2023) starring Liam Neeson playing in his usual style as an ex-hired killer wanting to lead an honest life, turns himself in, but things go wrong. It begins outside a bar in Belfast. Three IRA members, Dorieann McCann (Kerry Condon), Conor McGrath (Conor MacNeill) and Seamus Mckenna (Seamus O'Hara) are waiting for two men to walk into the bar. Later on, Finbar Murphy (Liam Neeson) and local police captain Vinnie O'Shea (Ciarán Hinds) are shooting cans with Finbars shotgun they are talking about books they are reading. After that, Murphy drives into an isolated forest. Waiting for him is Kevin (Jack Gleeson) a fellow hit man and coworker. But the problems about Ireland independence have come to his town and pull Finbar back into the world of vigilante justice. Haunted by sin !. Hunted by sinners!.
Thrilling and nail-biting movie with noisy action , shootouts , spectacular scenes , fights , violence and amazing finale . From start to finish the fractic action , drama, twists and turns are continuous. In the Land of Saints and Sinners is set in 1974, Ireland during the troubles between the Irish and the British, and director Robert Lorenz (Trouble with the Curve 2012, The Marksman 2021) provided a notable environment from Northern Ireland in the Seventies. Actor Liam Neeson and director Robert Lorenz team up again, after The Marksman (2021), in this bloody thriller with a Western feel set during the Northern Ireland conflict in the 1970s. Starring Neeson who gives a very good performance in his usual style playing a hitman who tries to start a new life away from crime in the small coastal town of Glen Colm Cille, however when a cell of the IRA, the Irish Republican army, arrives in town, he will be forced to carry out one last job, this time personal. Liam Neeson at his best , returning to high-profile roles in 2010 with big-budget films with plenty of action and violence such as : Team A (2010), Unknown (2011), The Grey (2011), Taken I (2008) , Taken 2 (2012) , Taken 3 (2014), Cold Pursuit (2019), Honest Thief (2020) and fiinally The Marksman (2021) . Liam is well accompanied by attractive secondaries , mainly British and Irish. Joining him are some fine actors, such as Kerry Condon (Better Call Saul) as a really bad avenging assassin, Jack Gleason (the unforgettable Geoffrey Baratheon from Game of Thrones) in a role as a good criminal detective, Clarán Hinds (Belfast) as a cunning Irish cop, and Colm Meany (Layer cake) as a crime boss, all of whom complement the terrific cast and deliver splendid performances.
The motion picture was well directed by Robert Lorenz. Starting out on the backlot of Roger Corman's B-movie studio in Venice, California, less than a decade later Lorenz found himself working as the right hand to legendary director Clint Eastwood. In 2002, impressed by Lorenz's work ethic and a shared enthusiasm for movie-making, Eastwood asked Lorenz to produce Mystic River, a film that would go on to become a cinema classic. A long, successful producing partnership followed as the two collaborated on over a dozen projects including the Oscar-winning Best Picture Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, Invictus, Letters from Iwo Jima, among others. Lorenz earned three Academy Award nominations along the way. Moving into the director's chair in 2012, Lorenz's first feature was the well-received Trouble with the curve, starring Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman. More Eastwood collaborations followed and after the record-breaking, box office success of American Sniper , for which he also directed the second unit, Lorenz made the decision to forego producing films for others and focus instead on his own writing and directing projects. Rating: 6.5/10. The film will appeal to Liam Neeson fans.
Thrilling and nail-biting movie with noisy action , shootouts , spectacular scenes , fights , violence and amazing finale . From start to finish the fractic action , drama, twists and turns are continuous. In the Land of Saints and Sinners is set in 1974, Ireland during the troubles between the Irish and the British, and director Robert Lorenz (Trouble with the Curve 2012, The Marksman 2021) provided a notable environment from Northern Ireland in the Seventies. Actor Liam Neeson and director Robert Lorenz team up again, after The Marksman (2021), in this bloody thriller with a Western feel set during the Northern Ireland conflict in the 1970s. Starring Neeson who gives a very good performance in his usual style playing a hitman who tries to start a new life away from crime in the small coastal town of Glen Colm Cille, however when a cell of the IRA, the Irish Republican army, arrives in town, he will be forced to carry out one last job, this time personal. Liam Neeson at his best , returning to high-profile roles in 2010 with big-budget films with plenty of action and violence such as : Team A (2010), Unknown (2011), The Grey (2011), Taken I (2008) , Taken 2 (2012) , Taken 3 (2014), Cold Pursuit (2019), Honest Thief (2020) and fiinally The Marksman (2021) . Liam is well accompanied by attractive secondaries , mainly British and Irish. Joining him are some fine actors, such as Kerry Condon (Better Call Saul) as a really bad avenging assassin, Jack Gleason (the unforgettable Geoffrey Baratheon from Game of Thrones) in a role as a good criminal detective, Clarán Hinds (Belfast) as a cunning Irish cop, and Colm Meany (Layer cake) as a crime boss, all of whom complement the terrific cast and deliver splendid performances.
The motion picture was well directed by Robert Lorenz. Starting out on the backlot of Roger Corman's B-movie studio in Venice, California, less than a decade later Lorenz found himself working as the right hand to legendary director Clint Eastwood. In 2002, impressed by Lorenz's work ethic and a shared enthusiasm for movie-making, Eastwood asked Lorenz to produce Mystic River, a film that would go on to become a cinema classic. A long, successful producing partnership followed as the two collaborated on over a dozen projects including the Oscar-winning Best Picture Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, Invictus, Letters from Iwo Jima, among others. Lorenz earned three Academy Award nominations along the way. Moving into the director's chair in 2012, Lorenz's first feature was the well-received Trouble with the curve, starring Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman. More Eastwood collaborations followed and after the record-breaking, box office success of American Sniper , for which he also directed the second unit, Lorenz made the decision to forego producing films for others and focus instead on his own writing and directing projects. Rating: 6.5/10. The film will appeal to Liam Neeson fans.
Following the death of his father (Matt Craven) in a violent car accident, Kale's character (Shia LaBeouf) changes completely and he becomes a silent, unsociable, withdrawn and disturbed boy. Because of a rebellion at his school, the judge sentences him to house arrest. Kale is locked in his home, where he lives along his mother (Carrie-Ann Moss). Bored, Kale watches his neighborhood with binoculars, including his attractive new neighbor Ashley Carlson (Sarah Roemer), and Robert Turner (David Morse), a solitary man. Every killer lives next door to someone !. Welcome to...The quieter the street, the darker the secrets....
DJ Carsuo's fourth film inevitably reminds us Hitchcock's Rear Window, although this time the protagonists are teenagers and are supported by new technologies. 'Disturbia' is rife with sub-plots, dynamic action, tense and peppered with humor and teen romance. This is an agreeable and also hilarious picture that has a memorable scene after another, and was one of the main films made by D. J. Caruso for DreamWorks (Jerry Katzemberg , David Geffen, Steven Spielberg) . This charming as well as inventive mystery movie contains an enjoyable intrigue, surprising situations and keeps the action at feverish pitch . The first part of this production is slow and artificial; however , the rest of this suspense picture takes off at high speed with continuous twisted events, surprises and noisy action . Well produced by DreamWorks, the copyright holders of Cornell Woolrich's short story 'It Had to Be Murder', which Rear Window (1954) was based on, sued DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures, and Steven Spielberg for using the story without permission.
Disturbia was filmed on location in the cities of Whittier, California and Pasadena, California, shot by cameraman Rogier Stoffers. Along with intriguing and suspenseful musical score by Geoff Zanelli. This motion picture was adequately and professionally directed by D. J. Caruso . He is a good craftsman whose films often have intense car crashes , and he has directed successful films , such as : Taking lives (2004) , Disturbia (2007), The Eagle eye (2008) , Standing up (2013), XXX Reactivated (2017) , Shut in (2022) and Reedeming love (2022) . Rating : 6.5/10 . Better than average. Essential and indispensable seeing for its intrigue and charming actors.
DJ Carsuo's fourth film inevitably reminds us Hitchcock's Rear Window, although this time the protagonists are teenagers and are supported by new technologies. 'Disturbia' is rife with sub-plots, dynamic action, tense and peppered with humor and teen romance. This is an agreeable and also hilarious picture that has a memorable scene after another, and was one of the main films made by D. J. Caruso for DreamWorks (Jerry Katzemberg , David Geffen, Steven Spielberg) . This charming as well as inventive mystery movie contains an enjoyable intrigue, surprising situations and keeps the action at feverish pitch . The first part of this production is slow and artificial; however , the rest of this suspense picture takes off at high speed with continuous twisted events, surprises and noisy action . Well produced by DreamWorks, the copyright holders of Cornell Woolrich's short story 'It Had to Be Murder', which Rear Window (1954) was based on, sued DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures, and Steven Spielberg for using the story without permission.
Disturbia was filmed on location in the cities of Whittier, California and Pasadena, California, shot by cameraman Rogier Stoffers. Along with intriguing and suspenseful musical score by Geoff Zanelli. This motion picture was adequately and professionally directed by D. J. Caruso . He is a good craftsman whose films often have intense car crashes , and he has directed successful films , such as : Taking lives (2004) , Disturbia (2007), The Eagle eye (2008) , Standing up (2013), XXX Reactivated (2017) , Shut in (2022) and Reedeming love (2022) . Rating : 6.5/10 . Better than average. Essential and indispensable seeing for its intrigue and charming actors.
La biblia en pasta(1984) results to be a spoof of the 1966 film ¨Bible in the beginning¨ by John Huston, in fact there're similar bibical episodes. It covers various Biblical facts an open with the Creation of the World and arrive at the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, and a demon who tempts Eva speaks with a very marked Catalan accent . Along the same lines, we should include the episode of Cain and Abel and their violent dispute. Cain and Abel playing brothers-turned-enemies, in a clear example of the so-called "sissy humor" . Furthermore, Noah and the Flood and the story of Nimrod , King of Babel and the emergence of man's vanity .
La biblia en pasta (1984) contains silly jokes, slapstick and sight gags galore. Intention of recounting the different segments that made it up and having a few laughs, although it is true that it is peppered with Summers's dizzying creativity, which gives no respite. In fact, one could speak of a certain vocation for voluntary tackiness, and with a multitude of "freak" characters that populate it. Guillermo Summers (Manuel's brother) also collaborated in the humorous tone that is its main purport. Manuel Summers' direction keeps things moving with laughs, he directed this sometimes hilarious, but mostly crude and bad taste spoof of Bible with ridiculous, embarrassing and disconcerting episodes. There are also an unbridled politically incorrect tone that always characterized Summers works, adding appearance from stand-in of famous politicians, such as Adolfo Suárez, Felipe González, Margaret Tacher, Ronald Regan or Fidel Castro. The jokes come with machine-gun rapidly , though don't always work, there are so many of them that this comedy ends up with enoughs laughs for quite entertaining. Including the anarchic, nihilistic, blasphemous and conceptually brutal humour of the scene in which Abel's sheep, after being murdered by his brother, devote themselves to praying the litanies, with their corresponding "ora pro nobis". It's a stupid movie but also funny and remains like a laugh-filled amusement. And following the style of Mel Brooks' crude humor in his parodies of 'History of the World part 1', The producers, Blazing saddles and Young Frankestein' .
The motion picture was mediocrely directed by Manuel Summers. He was a good actor and director with hits and flops. Manuel was successfully premiered in ¨"Adios cigüeña adiós" that got awesome critics and had big hit at the Spanish box office as Spain as South America . It won several awards in Festivals , as Circle of cinematographic writers National Syndicate of Spectacle, Spain 1971 : Winner Special Award Best Film . Being followed by an inferior sequel : ¨El niño es nuestro¨ with similar artistic and technician team . Manuel was a comic books humorist who publicized in ¨Pueblo¨ diary and on magazines as ¨Hermano Lobo¨and ¨La Codorniz¨. He was a comedian actor and an acceptable filmmaker. Manuel realized a lot of films including social critical which tended not to be very well received by the censor. Summers made an important diptych : ¨Del Rosa Al Amarillo¨ ("From Pink to Yellow, 1963") with Pedro Diaz Del Corral , Cristina Galbo, in which he created two episodes about love stories between teenagers and elderly people and ¨La Niña De Luto¨ starred by Alfredo Landa and Maria José Alfonso (1964) . La biblia en pasta(1984) was one of his least successful films. Unfortunately, this expensive undertaking, with a large number of extras, scale models, transparencies, etc., did not work well at the box office either, with just over 900,000 spectators, aborting a second part (which was to be titled "The Bible in Verse") that was announced at the end but was never filmed. As an experience, the film was indeed novel: the Bible taken as a joke, although really without mocking the essential, God, had not been made too much in commercial cinema, neither in Spain nor abroad.
La biblia en pasta (1984) contains silly jokes, slapstick and sight gags galore. Intention of recounting the different segments that made it up and having a few laughs, although it is true that it is peppered with Summers's dizzying creativity, which gives no respite. In fact, one could speak of a certain vocation for voluntary tackiness, and with a multitude of "freak" characters that populate it. Guillermo Summers (Manuel's brother) also collaborated in the humorous tone that is its main purport. Manuel Summers' direction keeps things moving with laughs, he directed this sometimes hilarious, but mostly crude and bad taste spoof of Bible with ridiculous, embarrassing and disconcerting episodes. There are also an unbridled politically incorrect tone that always characterized Summers works, adding appearance from stand-in of famous politicians, such as Adolfo Suárez, Felipe González, Margaret Tacher, Ronald Regan or Fidel Castro. The jokes come with machine-gun rapidly , though don't always work, there are so many of them that this comedy ends up with enoughs laughs for quite entertaining. Including the anarchic, nihilistic, blasphemous and conceptually brutal humour of the scene in which Abel's sheep, after being murdered by his brother, devote themselves to praying the litanies, with their corresponding "ora pro nobis". It's a stupid movie but also funny and remains like a laugh-filled amusement. And following the style of Mel Brooks' crude humor in his parodies of 'History of the World part 1', The producers, Blazing saddles and Young Frankestein' .
The motion picture was mediocrely directed by Manuel Summers. He was a good actor and director with hits and flops. Manuel was successfully premiered in ¨"Adios cigüeña adiós" that got awesome critics and had big hit at the Spanish box office as Spain as South America . It won several awards in Festivals , as Circle of cinematographic writers National Syndicate of Spectacle, Spain 1971 : Winner Special Award Best Film . Being followed by an inferior sequel : ¨El niño es nuestro¨ with similar artistic and technician team . Manuel was a comic books humorist who publicized in ¨Pueblo¨ diary and on magazines as ¨Hermano Lobo¨and ¨La Codorniz¨. He was a comedian actor and an acceptable filmmaker. Manuel realized a lot of films including social critical which tended not to be very well received by the censor. Summers made an important diptych : ¨Del Rosa Al Amarillo¨ ("From Pink to Yellow, 1963") with Pedro Diaz Del Corral , Cristina Galbo, in which he created two episodes about love stories between teenagers and elderly people and ¨La Niña De Luto¨ starred by Alfredo Landa and Maria José Alfonso (1964) . La biblia en pasta(1984) was one of his least successful films. Unfortunately, this expensive undertaking, with a large number of extras, scale models, transparencies, etc., did not work well at the box office either, with just over 900,000 spectators, aborting a second part (which was to be titled "The Bible in Verse") that was announced at the end but was never filmed. As an experience, the film was indeed novel: the Bible taken as a joke, although really without mocking the essential, God, had not been made too much in commercial cinema, neither in Spain nor abroad.