{"id":306316,"date":"2026-02-19T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306316\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:02:09","slug":"liam-neeson-is-out-to-save-the-world-in-cold-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306316\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Neeson is out to save the world in Cold Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll fight like hell to save us all!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So growls Liam Neeson as only he can in Cold Storage, a perfectly cast, pacy, and smart comedy-horror for the genre movie king.<\/p>\n<p>Neeson recently told RT\u00c9 Entertainment (watch above) that when he can no longer do his own fight scenes, he&#8217;ll hang up the gloves on the action hero part of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Going by his latest, the 73-year-old is good for a few oul scrapes yet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liam Neeson as Robert Quinn and Lesley Manville as Trini Romano investigate in Cold Storage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0023cfd9-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAgents reunited &#8211; Liam Neeson as Robert Quinn and Lesley Manville as Trini Romano<\/p>\n<p>Here, Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp adapts his own bio-thriller bestseller for cinemas with, wait for it, Am I Being Unreasonable? and Phoenix Nights director Jonny Campbell calling the shots.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s quite the popcorn pairing behind the lens.<\/p>\n<p>In front of it, they&#8217;ve struck chemistry gold with Stranger Things&#8217; Joe Keery and Barbarian&#8217;s Georgina Campbell as in-the-wars-co-workers Travis and Naomi, and Neeson and Lesley Manville as Quinn and Romano, the retired government agents who come to their rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery tell RT\u00c9 Entertainment about making Cold Storage<\/p>\n<p alt=\"Cold Storage stars Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery\" data-embed=\"comcast-player\" data-guid=\"epic-mpx-manual-30806\" data-id=\"SMWCnA_Xz6WQ\">\n<p>Long story short, Travis and Naomi are the night shift crew at a storage facility that was once a military base &#8211; and there&#8217;s a world-ending fungus down in the basement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The container marked &#8216;EXPOSITION&#8217; arrives at the start, but thereafter Cold Storage bounces along with the kind of gusto that was far more prevalent in the VHS glory days of the 80s.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t have any notions, and yet it still manages to work in an ecological message amidst the three gs: gore, gags, and guns.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Keery as Travis and Georgina Campbell as Naomi investigate in Cold Storage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0023cfdb-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nLovers of Return of the Living Dead and Re-Animator, this one is so you<\/p>\n<p>It could have been a bit funnier, but that&#8217;s the only quibble &#8211; and one that could be put right in a most-welcome sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Fingers crossed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, lovers of Return of the Living Dead and Re-Animator, this one is so you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;ll fight like hell to save us all!&#8221; So growls Liam Neeson as only he can in Cold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-306316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}