By Jason Adams, MyNewPlaidPants

Liam Neeson sure has had a strange turn in his career over the past couple of years, hasn’t he? The one-time Very Serious Irishman of Schindler’s List and Nell (can’t ever forget Nell, tay in the ween) has decided that there’s no better time than one’s last fifties (he turns sixty in June!) to kick a whole bunch of ass instead. If you look at the movies he has lined up they include the Clash sequel Wrath of the Titans with him as the ever angry Zeus, the Dark Knight sequel with him as the ever angry Ra’s Al Ghul, the Battleship movie as a seemingly very stern Navy man, and an unnamed sequel to his big “My pretty blond daughter gots stolen!” movie Taken, where he will presumably be very angry and stern about something or other. As a sidenote, I love that the Taken sequel is as-of-now unnamed, because what, they haven’t figured out if somebody will get Taken in this one or not? Maybe nobody will get taken anywhere, and they’ll all just sit in one room staring at each other. They can call it Staring.

I digress. Neeson has a new Big Angry Movie out this weekend, only this time he is angry… at wolves!!! And Mother Nature in general, I think. It’s called The Grey, and it deals with a group of menfolk (always menfolk) stranded in the wintry – dare I say, the gray – wilderness being hunted by a pack of wolves. It reteams Neeson with his A-Team director, but don’t hold that against it – word on the street is it’s actually pretty terrifying.

Now I’m tempted to recast all the rest of the movies out this weekend with Liam neeson, having yammered about him for so long, but we all know the dainty and lovable Katherine Heigl will be having none of that, thank you very much. Her new flick – yes, somebody keeps giving up their hard-earned cash to make Katherine Heigl movies – is called One For the Money, ironically enough. I suppose her next movie will be all about the Art. It’s basically that Jennifer Aniston movie where Gerard Butler locked her in a trunk, isn’t it? Heigl starred with Butler in some movie too, right? They are all morphing into one enormous Voltron like entity that will kill us all.

Sam Worthington, now he seems like somebody who’d tell Liam Neeson to take the part and just go to town with it. Nevertheless Sam’s trying his hand at this whole movie thing again with Man on a Ledge, where he stars as a… let me check my papers and charts… hmm let’s see… oh yes, he is playing a man on a ledge. There’s also some hoo-ha about a bank heist and Elizabeth Banks in a buttoned-up coat, or something. And co-star Jamie Bell is somewhere on the sidelines being all, “Hey, I have a thousand more times charisma than the dude starring in this movie, why am I always the co-star on the sidelines,” and Hollywood is all, “Nyah nyah shut up Jamie Bell, we will only talk to you if we can turn you into a redheaded cartoon that looks absolutely nothing like you at all!”

There are several of the Serious Oscar Movies that have been barely seen by anyone yet getting released into more theaters this week – Tilda Swinton didn’t get her deserved nomination for We Need To Talk About Kevin since Glenn Close stole it for her bizarre “Dude looks like a lady-dude?” passion project Albert Nobbs, but they’re both making their way to a theater near you, as is Best Foreign Film contender In Darkness, which is about the Holocaust – there’s one every year. Which gets me thinking, perhaps it’s time for a Schindler’s List 2: Schindler’s Revenge? Liam Neeson is so totally up for it, you guys.

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