BRUCE ON THE LOOSE

JUST WHEN you thought Liam Neeson, 65, had the market on movies about aging vigilante fathers cornered, Bruce Willis is here to prove that he’s still got a little of that “Yippee-ki-yay” spirit left in him as well. The 63-year-old channels his inner Charles Bronson in the remake of the 1974 flick Death

Wish, playing a husband out for revenge when police fail to capture the bad guys who harmed his family. Of course, if Willis’s character was that fed up with the cops, he might have tried putting up three billboards outside his hometown before resorting to all-out vigilantism. Just saying – it worked for Frances McDormand.

Elsewhere, Chinese actress Cheng Pei-pei, 71, and British stage and screen star Imelda Staunton, 62, both play wives struggling with a husband’s infidelity, with Cheng casting off the shackles of her sheltered marital existence in the Canuck drama Meditation Park and Staunton joining a dance class where she and some 60-plus pals very literally get their groove back in the comedy Finding Your Feet.

And in a multi-generational effort sees celebrated genX filmmaker and hipster icon Wes Anderson turn to a company of boomers,includingBryanCranston, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Jeff Goldblum, to voice his highly anticipated stop-motion film about a young boy’s search for his missing pooch. —MC