Tag Archives: Anya Taylor-Joy

The Menu. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Paul Adelstein, John Leguizamo, Aimee Carrero, Reed Birney, Judith Light, Rebecca Koon, Rob Koon, Rob Yang, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Peter Grosz, Christina Brucato, Adam Aalderks, Jon Paul Allyn, Mel Fair, Cristian Gonzalez, Matthew Cornwell, John Wilkins III.

Living is a matter of taste. The varied list of options upon the great smorgasbord of life is one that we either dip in and out of, or depending on the pound on our pocket, might entice us to try a different flavour just for the experience; all this is natural, we eat our way through existence to discovery joy and hold memories firm.

The Menu. Film Review. full post

(562 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Amsterdam. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Alessandro Nivola, Andrea Riseborough, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Rock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Shannon, Mike Myers, Taylor Swift, Timothy Olyphant, Zoe Saldana, Rami Malek, Robert De Niro, Mel Fair, Vaughn Page, Bonnie Hellman, Max Perlich, Jessica Drake, Ed Bagley Jr., Colleen Camp, Gabe Doppelt, Lauren Shaw, Brandon Davis, Casey Biggs, Dey Young, Sean Avery,  Gigi Bermingham, Andre Tardieu, Casey Graf, Rebecca Wisocky, Daniel Riordan.

Amsterdam. Film Review. full post

(563 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

The Northman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Elliott Rose, Willem Dafoe, Phill Martin, Eldar Skar, Olwen Fouéré, Edgar Abram, Jack Gassman, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Oscar Novak, Jack Walsh, Björk, Ian Whyte, Katie Pattinson, Andrea O’Neill, Rebecca Ineson, Katie Dickie, Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney, Kevin Horsham, Seamus O’ Hara, Scott Sinclair, Tadhg Murphy, James Yates, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Ian Gerard Whyte, Ralph Ineson, Murray McArthur, Nille Glæsel, Jonas Lorentzen, Magne Osnes, Ineta Sliuzaite, Finn Lafferty, Jon Campling, Helen Roche, Faoileann Cunningham, Gareth Parker, Mark Fitzgerald, Gavin Peden, Eric Higgins, Matt Symonds.

The Northman. Film Review. full post

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

Last Night In Soho. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Rita Tushingham, Synnove Karlsen, Michael Ajao, Pauline McLynn, Terrance Stamp, Sam Clafflin, Elizabeth Berrington, Jessie Mei Li, Rebecca Harrod, Kassius Nelson, Aimee Cassettari, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Beth Singh.

It is an old city and there are plenty of ghosts trapped amongst us who cannot rest, even with constant re-invention and new blood lured there in the promise of put their stamp on the world thanks to its influence, London cannot escape its own damaged past, its own cycle of death and mystery, for no matter what part of that mass conglomeration made of bricks and mortar, the ghosts have nowhere else to call home, nowhere else they can finally hope to see justice restored.

Last Night In Soho. Film Review. full post

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

The New Mutants. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10

Cast: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga, Adam Beach, Thomas Kee, Colbi Gannett, Happy Anderson, Dustin Ceithamer, Jacinto Vega SpiritWolf, Chuck, Marilyn Manson, Jeffrey Corazzini, Mickey Gilmore, Max Schochet.

It is a tale of divided generations, the ones that have been fortunate, blessed even, to find themselves in a time when cinematic adaptions of their favourite Marvel characters has by and large been positive, the reception for example of the transfer to television with some of what may be considered minor hitters from the long list of heroes and villains finding themselves to be just as  rightly adored as the perpetual is a symbol of the staying power of the dominance that Marvel has over its rivals in creating the hero for our time.

The New Mutants. Film Review. full post

(508 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Glass. Film Review.

 Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, Sarah Poulson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Spencer Treat Clark, Luke Kirby, Marissa Brown, Charlayne Woodard, Adam David Thompson, M Night Shyamalan.

The art of the film maker comes with the unexpected sense of the sleight of hand, the appearance out of nowhere which justifies the movie as one that was always ready to be defined by what follows it, a story which the audience has no idea is part of a greater tale, one in which the director and writer might not have realised they themselves had no idea they were be guided by outside forces to make.

Glass. Film Review. full post

(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

The Miniaturist. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Romola Garai, Hayley Squires, Paapa Essiedu, Katy Carmichael, Lucas Bond, Lara Bond, Alex Hassell, Sally Messham, Caolan Byrne, Emily Berrington, Ziggy Heath, Aislin McGuckin, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Ian Hogg, Christopher Godwin, Jack Brady, Graham Elwell.

You can be let down if you have high expectations of anything, the possibility of major adaption of a piece of literature can have you believing that television will treat any new drama with respect sometimes falls short, can leave the festive desert leaving the stomach and the mind as lumpy as a debut Christmas pudding offered to the table; over filled with sweetness, too much brandy covering the meal and the chance that it could become a smouldering wreck before it has even had chance to settle.

The Miniaturist. Television Review. full post

(396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

The Witch, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anya-Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson, Bathsheba Garnett, Sarah Stephens, Julian Richings, Wahab Chaudrey.

It is in the richness of performance, in the attention to the madness to come as the idea of witchcraft in the young colonies and towns that made up the New England Commonwealth, which makes The Witch such a startling and intriguing film in which to savour.

The Witch, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Atlantis: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 1/10

Cast: Mark Addy, Jack Donnelly, Robert Emms, Aiysha Hart, Sarah Parish, Jemima Roper, Juliet Stevenson, Amy Manson, Ken Bones, Peter De Jersey, Lorcan Cranitch, Vincent Regan, Robert Lindsay, Joseph Timms, John Hannah, Robert Pugh, Ronald Pickup, Philip Correia, Anya Taylor-Joy.

The surprise was not that Atlantis was cancelled but the fact that it was made at all.

In one of the rare mistakes of drama production by the B.B.C., Atlantis finally washed up on the shores of discontent and died a long lingering death in a series that was split in two. Much heralded as a winter replacement for Doctor Who, the second series of the fantasy based drama descended to the point where arguably viewers were watching to see how bad it could actually become.

Atlantis: Series Two. Television Review. full post

(579 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Endeavour: Nocturne. Television Review. I.T.V.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Jack Laskey, Anton Lesser, Jack Bannon, Abigail Thaw, Desomd Barrit, Lucy Boynton, James Bradshaw, Lynn Farleigh, Diane Fletcher, Nell Tiger Free, Maya Gerber, Imogen Gurney, Daniel Ings, Susy Kane, Simon Kunz Kate Lamb, Shvorne Marks, Eleanor Northcott, Caroline O’ Neill, Ian Peck, Tom Prior, Sean Rigby, Straun Rodger, Michael Shannon, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sara Vickers, Emily Warren.

Endeavour: Nocturne. Television Review. I.T.V. full post

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