Film Shorts // May 19-25, 2021
OPENING
Counter Column (PG-13) This Christian drama is about a drug dealer (Chris Gonzales) who tries to escape his life by joining the army. Also with Nathan-Andrew Hight, Michael Kaiser, Zane Castor, Ella Haslett, Madeleine Martinez, Diego Medina, and Lars Nielsen. (Opens Friday at Movie Tavern Hulen)
The Dry (R) Eric Bana stars in this thriller as a federal agent who returns to his drought-stricken hometown for a funeral and has to reckon with a decades-old unsolved murder. Also with Genevieve O’Reilly, Keir O’Donnell, John Polson, Julia Blake, Bruce Spence, and William Zappa. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
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Posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 by Ben Pearson
Liam Neeson movie characters have faced some pretty extreme challenges over the past decade or so: a missing daughter, surviving a plane crash, releasing the Kraken, fighting aliens on a battleship, and stopping bad guys on various forms of transportation, including a plane, a train, and a snow plow. Now he’s facing off against the only foe that he may be able to beat temporarily, but that is sure to get the best of him in the end: time.
In
The Ice Road, Neeson plays a big rig driver who has experience driving on the dangerous icy roads of Canada. When a mine collapses and the trapped workers running out of time, Neeson and co-star
The Ice Road Trailer Puts Liam Neeson in a Dangerous Truck Mission for Netflix
Liam Neeson is once again getting really cold as Netflix has debuted the trailer for its upcoming action thriller,
The Ice Road. The actor has a small sub-genre of cold weather thrillers under his winter jacket, including the absolutely fantastic The Ice Road looks like it’s going to land somewhere in the middle of the two in terms of quality. Then again, any film where Neeson utters the line, “Now I’m angry,” can’t be all bad, right?
Netflix picked up the movie for a cool $18 million, seeing an audience-pleaser with Neeson headlining a team of truckers that must drive along an ice road in order to rescue a group of trapped miners. However, it turns out that they’re not just battling a quickly melting body of water. It seems the mine owners have been up to no good and are looking to stop the rescue any way they can. If