Taken

Seeking a Perfect Victim

Jane Wells | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Hunt Alternatives Fund, Sweden, Liam Neeson, Rachel Lloyd, Taken, 000 Men, Child Sex Trafficking, Demand Abolition, Boston, Sex Trafficking, Julia Roberts Pretty Woman, 10, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth, Impact News

To me, she's a perfect victim, but I question who wants to watch her story? It is so grim few could stomach it. She is the ravaged face and body of the commercial sex industry in this country.

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Your Republican Friends Are Going to Love Lockout

Jason Bailey | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: The Crazies, Top Gun, Taken, Red Dawn, Contagion, Barack Obama, Lockout, Movie Review, Lockout Review, Luc Besson, President Obama, Taken Movie, Lockout Movie, Entertainment News

What's striking, when watching Lockout (aside from what a terrible, lunk-headed movie it is), is how frequently and explicitly it flaunts its anti-Democrat -- and anti-Obama -- point of view.

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Student Activism Can Help End the Modern-Day Slave Trade

mtvU | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Against Our Will, Clinton Global Initiative, Student Activism, Sex Slavery, Taken, Mtvu Against Our Will Campaign, Mtvu, College News

It is estimated that there are as many as 27 million sex and labor slaves worldwide. A few years ago, I had no idea that slavery still existed.

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Weekend Box Office: Liam Neeson's Unknown Fends Off I Am Number Four While Gnomeo and Juliet Holds Strong

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Box Office (Weekend Rundown), Presidents' Day, Liam Neeson, Jennifer Aniston, Dreamworks, Taken, Oscar 2011, Disney, Unknown, I Am Number Four, Justin Bieber, Entertainment News

It was a crowded weekend at the box office for the second weekend in a row, as three major openers squared off against a surprisingly resilient animated feature from the week before.

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HuffPost Review: Unknown

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clash of the Titans, Liam Neeson, Taken, Aidan Quinn, The a Team, Philip K. Dick, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Movie Reviews, Bruno Ganz, Marshall Fine, Unknown Movie Review, January Jones, Luc Besson, Diane Kruger, Unknown, Entertainment News

There must be a factory that churns out action-thrillers the same way a factory produces furniture. No muss, no fuss, and a rotating list of actors who have fallen out of the 'A' list.

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Movie review: From Paris With Love

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joel Silver, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, The Professional, Taken, Luc Besson, John Travolta, Marshall Fine Movie Review, From Paris With Love Movie Review, District 13: Ultimatum, Pierre Morel, Entertainment News

Luc Besson is a movie-making maniac, an action auteur whose signature is all over the films he produces and writes.

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The Jack Bauer Decade

John McQuaid | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taken, Terrorism, Stanley Fish, Jack Bauer, Enhanced Interrogations, Revenge, 24, Torture, Politics News

Let your agents go all Jack Bauer and they might kill a few terrorists. But there's going to be excesses, collateral damage, disastrous mistakes. In the movies or TV, such inconvenient fallout is airbrushed out. Not in real life.

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Watchmen continues to bleed, Witch Mountain races to #1, and Taken will not die (weekend box office rundown for 03-15-09)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Box Office, Taken, Entertainment, Watchmen, Coraline, Madea Goes to Jail, Left House on the Left, Race to Witch Moutain, Movies, Entertainment News

Well, the bleeding clotted somewhat on Watchmen, with a 'mere' 68% drop in weekend two, ending with $17.7 million. It's ten-day take is now at a trou...

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Watchmen Goes Down Hard (Friday box office numbers for 3/13/09)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taken, Entertainment, Watchmen, Box Office, Coraline, Race to Witch Mountain, Last House on the Left, Movies, Entertainment News

While we can argue about the relative success of last weekend's opening, it can no longer be denied that Watchmen will cost Warner Bros. quite a bit of money.

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Watchmen Does $55 Million Over Opening Weekend -- Why this is Good News and Bad News

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dark Knight, Jonas Brothers, Box Office, Taken, Watchmen, Superman Returns, Paul Blart, Gran Torino, Madea Goes to Jail, Batman Begins, Slumdog Millionaire, Movies, 300, Entertainment News

When you factor in the money earned, as well as the gender neutral demographics, Watchmen comes off as a male version of Sex & The City.

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Liam Trumps Mall Cop: "Taken" #1

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film, Liam Neeson, Taken, Box Office, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Liam Neeson took down "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" with his CIA thriller "Taken," which topped the box office with $24.7 million on its ...

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Review: Taken/i> (2009)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 20th Century Fox, Movie, Review, Taken, Pierre Morel, Liam Neeson, Entertainment News

Taken 2009 93 minutes Rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson Usually when someone opines 'oh, they don't make them like this anymore', they are paying a sor...

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