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Loki. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophie Di Martino, Owen Wilson, Wunmi Mosaku, Richard E. Grant, Jack Veal, Deobia Oparei, Jonathan Majors.

They who have remained are the ones reaping the benefits of dedicated, intricate, and highly polished storytelling. A narrative so beautiful that not only would the late, great, and hugely missed Stan Lee have marvelled at how sublime the director Kate Herron had brought every element of surprise, style and belief to the six-part series of Loki, but how both Tom Hiddlestone and Sophie Di Martino in their respective roles have encompassed the graphic novel’s giants turn to the television serial, and how effective it has been.

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

Dumbo (2019). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Alan Arkin, Nico Parker, Finlay Hobbins, Roshan Seth, Lars Eidinger, Deobia Oparei, Joseph Gatt, Miguel Munoz Segura, Zenaida Alcade, Douglas Reith, Phil Zimmerman, Sharon Rooney.

When the lid to Pandora’s Box was ripped open, the hinges almost groaning with delight as all the evils of the world came storming out, chasing down humanity with thoughtless plagues and the possibility of soul-minded destruction, nobody paid heed to what came fluttering lazily out after Hope had been urged to rescue the minds of all, the almost burned-out wings that carried the act of the live action remake, the guise in which imagination is lauded but in which sits unhappily reflecting upon the demise of the searing height of new imaginations being allowed to take hold.

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(530 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Independence Day: Resurgence, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Jessie T. Usher, Bill Pulman, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward, William Fichtner, Judd Hirsch, Brent Spiner, Patrick St. Esprit, Vivica A. Fox, Angelababy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Deobia Oparei, Nicolas Wright, Travis Tope, Jenna Purdy, Ryan Cartwright.

Inevitable when you think about it, of course there would be a sequel to the glossy and fun Independence Day, the story line was just too enjoyable and fairly bonkers to not have left a film child behind somewhere in the dark, salivating over the prospect of taking a cinema audience on the road to yet another round with creatures from beyond our universe.

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(448 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)