Tag Archives: Alan Tudyk

Resident Alien. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds, Alice Wetterlund, Levi Fiehler, Judah Prehn, Elizabeth Bowen, Meredith Garretson, Gary Farmer, Diane Bang, Jenna Lamia, Kaylayla Raine, Gracelyn Awad Rinke, Alex Barima, Linda Hamilton, Mandell Maughan, Sarah Podemski, Deborah Finkel, Ben Cotton, Justin Rain, Trevor Carroll, Alvin Sanders, Terry O’ Quinn, Nathan Fillion, Nicola Correia-Damude, Michael Cassidy, Kesler Talbot, David Bianchi, Enver Gjokaj, Jan Boss, John Innes, Paul Piaskowski, Robert Moloney, Eleanor Walker, George Takei.

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(586 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

Disenchanted. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Maya Rudolph, Gabriella Baldacchino, Rachel Duff, James Marsden, Idina Menzel, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jayma Mays, Kolton Stewart, Oscar Nuñez, Alan Tudyk, Griffin Newman, Brooke Josephson, Mila Jackson, Lara Jackson, Eimear Morrissey.

It is the way of the modern world; a studio realises they have a cinematic hit on their hands and quickly takes steps to rush out a sequel. A couple of quick years pass, and the movie is almost seamless, the succession soon passed down, and before you know it you have a franchise on your hands. It is understandable, and whilst commercial capitalism is unhealthy, it does allow the viewer to keep the story in their minds, to keep it fresh, and not allow the tale on screen to become stagnant.

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(576 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Resident Alien: Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Alice Wetterlund, Corey Reynolds, Levi Fiehler, Judah Ptehn, Meredith Garretson, Elizabeth Bowen, Alex Barima, Keith Arbuthnot, Mandell Maughan, Kaylayla Raine, Diana Bang, Gary Farmer, Jenna Lamia, Deborah Finkel, Gracelyn Awad Rinke, Elvy, Ben Cotton, Sarah Podemski, Linda Hamilton, Terry O’ Quinn, Nathan Fillon.

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(552 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Frozen II. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff, Sterling K. Brown, Evan Rachel Wood, Alfred Molina, Martha Plimton, Jason Ritter, Rachel Matthews, Jeremy Sito, Ciaran Hinds, Alan Tudyk, Hadley Gannaway, Mattea Conforti, Aurora Aksnes, Paul Briggs.

The phenomenon will always be with us, the occurrence of the cinematic event that manages to infiltrate almost every aspect of life and society is one that either is embraced or shunned with seemingly equal proportions. Whilst the Marvel Studio may have held the position of top dog in the last decade, the undisputed King of the block, it is to the characters of Elsa and Anna that the Queens of the Frozen franchise have infiltrated their way into theatre productions, the songs, the costumes, the public, arguably cannot get enough of the sisters, their snowman and the magic of their lives.

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(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Aladdin (2019). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Marwen Kenzari, Navid Negahban, Nasim Pedrad, Jordan A. Nash, Billy Magnussen, Taliyah Blair, Aubrey Lin, Amir Boutrous, Numan Acar, Nina Wadia, Alan Tudyk, Frank Welker.

We stand in the shadow of our childhood loves and see them being reworked, rewritten and given new life, for some such a moment in which they see their favourite film given a fresh face is perhaps too much to bear. The social media outrage can be vicious, head-scratching and concerning and whilst it is understandable that we see our own lives wrapped in such events, the way we look upon change now is almost as if it is personal, directed against our first firm held beliefs.

Aladdin (2019). Film Review. full post

(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Deadpool 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Josh Brolin, Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Zazie Beetz, Brianna Hildebrand, Brad Pitt, Bill Skarsgård, Matt Damon, T.J.Miller, Terry Crews, Rob Delaney, Alan Tudyk, Julian Dennison, Lewis Tan, Jack Kesy, Eddie Marsan, Shioli Kutsuna, Hayley Sales, Stefan Kapicic, Karan Soni, Sala Baker, Nicholas Hoult, James McAvoy, Evan Peters, Tye Sheridan.

In the land of the sequel, the audience is normally attuned to the fact that by and large the film will be below par, sometimes disastrously with a plot that was based on profit potential, sometimes just out of plain high expectation, but the result will be the same, that like most films, the sequel is never in the same class as the original.

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(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Rogue One, A Star Wars Story. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, Mads Mikkelsen, Jimmy Smits, Alistair Petrie, Genevieve O’Reilly, Ben Daniels, Paul Kasey, Ian McElhinney, Fares Fares, Jonathan Aris, James Earl Jones, Valene Kane, Daniel Mays.

It was always inevitable, always going to happen at some point, perhaps in a galaxy not too far away but someone was always going to produce a prequel to the prequels and do it after all the sequels had been set near enough in Cordite. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the tale that all fans of the space saga has fully deserved, the one big hole that needed not just filling, but doing so with respect, with elegance and style and perhaps even with the odd nod to the Universe at large.

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(467 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Trumbo, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, Dean O’ Gorman, David James Elliott, David Maldonado, John Getz, Alan Tudyk, Louis C.K., Richard Portnow, Roger Bart, Robert Stripling, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ellie Fanning, John Goodman, Stephen Root, Christian Berkel.

The era of McCarthyism was arguably one of the most shameful times in American politics, one that to this day still sends a shiver down the spine and causes the heart to miss a beat or two as the scare tactics employed by the junior senator and those of involved with the committee hearings dealing with the House Un-American Activities. That shiver should be felt for all time, it should never relent and whilst Arthur Miller brought the nauseous feeling and rising anger superbly to the stage in the classic The Crucible, Trumbo makes it feel so much more modern and dastardly.

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(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)