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A Tale of Three ‘Tookens’: ‘Key & Peele,’ Tina Fey, and a New Hollywood Spoof
Were Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele the first people to modify Taken into the definitively sillier Tooken? Probably not. But should they be the last? Probably yes. Their Key & Peele sketch —...
View ArticlePitching the Exciting Future of the ‘Liam Neeson Kills Everyone’ Movie
Out this week is A Walk Among the Tombstones, another notch in the wonderfully bloodied bedpost that has been Liam Neeson’s post-Taken career. By now the basic template, as laid down by the ur-text of...
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Who’s Getting Tak3n in the Brand-New Trailer for ‘Tak3n’? A Running Diary
Is it trailer Christmas already? It’s almost as if the nice folks at 20th Century Fox, angered that Inherent Vice was sucking up all the trailer-worship oxygen for the past 15 or so hours, said “Screw...
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You Been Neesoned: The Definitive ‘Liam Neeson, Action Dad’ Power Rankings
Liam Neeson has a movie coming out this Friday, and raise your hand if any of the following sounds familiar: For comparison’s sake, here’s a snippet of dialogue transcribed from Taken 2 that describes...
View ArticleQ&A: Director Pierre Morel on ‘The Gunman,’ ‘Taken,’ Rampaging Bulls, and...
Seven years ago, the French director Pierre Morel helmed Taken and changed the world forever. He could have decided to spend the rest of his life resting atop a heavenly gilded throne, itself resting...
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Always Give the Naked Man Your Motorcycle, and Other Lessons From Action Movies
A happy moment in my life was when I watched Mortal Kombat for the first time with my sons. They were 6 years old, and I will freely admit that’s maybe a little too young to watch Mortal Kombat. I will...
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Hakeem Gets Taken and Andre Finds God on ‘Empire’
“Be True,” the fifth episode of Season 2 of Empire, ends with the shock of Hakeem (the very famous son of the very famous music mogul) getting snatched out of a park by some mysterious bad guys. If...
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