Tag Archives: Annette Bening

Death On The Nile. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Armie Hammer, Gal Gadot, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Rose Leslie, Letitia Wright, Sophie Okonedu, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Russell Brand, Emma Mackey, Michael Rouse, Alaa Safi, Orlando Seale, Charlie Verhaeren, Susannah Fielding, Rick Warden, Ali Fazal.

It could be argued that we may have reached peak Christie.

The Queen of Crime has not lost any of the affection on the fans, the books will always sell, the dedicated devotee will pour over even the shortest of articles that has Agatha Christie’s name attached, even if by the merest of association, they will believe that there is somewhere a story, a tale in which perhaps one more exercise in observing the act of criminality and murder will make itself known.

Death On The Nile. Film Review. full post

(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Captain Marvel. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Gemma Chan, Lee Pace, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law, Annette Bening, Djimon Hounsou, Rune Temte, Colin Ford, Clark Gregg, Chuku Modo, Lashana Lynch, Robert Kazinsky, Kenneth Mitchell, Marilyn Brett, Stan Lee.

There are times when you look at a film and understand the hype that has been attached to it, that the feeling of a completed article is close at hand, and yet in the same recognised thought, you see the issues that others have labelled down and wondered if they even went into the screening with that one purpose of mind, straight forward, non-objective or stereotyped open mindedness.

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(604 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julia Walters, Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Graham, Leanne Best, James Bloor, Frances Barber, Kenneth Cranham, Isabelle Laughland, Peter Turner, Tom Brittney, Edward Bourne, Susanne Bertish, Joey Batey, Tim Ahern, Luana Di Pasquale.

Imagine, if you can, what it would be to be in a relationship with someone who was once considered Hollywood royalty, who held audiences captive with their ability on screen and who made crowds love them. It is surely impossible to believe such a thing could happen, even if you do read about in the gossip columns and the world of social media, it is almost too good to ever believe it would happen to you.

Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool. Film Review. full post

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

Rules Don’t Apply. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Broderick, Martin Sheen, Hart Bochner, Candice Bergen, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Lily Collins, Steve Coogan, Alec Baldwin, Oliver Platt, Ed Harris, Paul Sorvino, Taissa Farmiga.

The story you don’t know is the one that is often the most factual, cinema has a way of unfolding the tale and only offering the sanitised version of someone’s life, the mistakes, they are erasable, the darkness, the redemption found, the eventual downfall, covered in a semblance of sepia toned grace; for in cinema the Rules Don’t Apply, most of the time they are made up on the spot and changed randomly.

Rules Don’t Apply. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Danny Collins, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Garner, Josh Peck, Melissa Benoist, Nick Offerman, Aarti Mann, Katrina Cas, Anne McDaniels, Brian Smith, Eric Lange, Giselle Eisenberg, Michael Patrick McGill, Scott Lawrence, Eric Michael Roy.

Every actor has one film in them which the plaudits and the cinema goer attaches great stock and faith in, some have more than one. For Al Pacino, they seem to have come with never ending force and for even those who might not see the appeal of his film career over say Robert de Niro or Jack Nicholson, they have to concede that the man is adored the world over.

Danny Collins, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(542 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)