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The Matrix: Resurrections. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 5/10

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff, Jessica Henwick, Neil Patrick Harris, Jada Pinkett Smith, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Christina Ricci, Lambert Wilson, Andrew Lewis Caldwell, Toby Onwumere, Max Riemelt, Joshua Grothe, Brian J. Smith, Eréndira Ibarra, Michael X. Sommers.

The Matrix trilogy can be seen truly as a cultural phenomenon; admittedly one that was at its peak in the first of the films delivered to a film loving crowd wowed by its cinematography and effects, but still a series of films that asked questions of our perceived vision of reality, and how we were, and continue, to be enveloped by the idea of being repressed by a superior mind just to appear that we are indeed in control of our own destiny.

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(545 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Angel Has Fallen. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Gerard Butler, Piper Perabo, Morgan Freeman, Fredrick Schmidt, Danny Huston, Lance Reddick, Rocci Williams, Harry Ditson, Ori Pfeffer, Michael Landes, Mark Arnold, Kerry Shale, Tim Blake Nelson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nick Nolte.

Occasionally you just have to sit back and be astonished at how a film manages to be given the green light to see the light of day, how, despite the odds, it morphs into a franchise that keeps going, and how it hooks in one of the most respected and gracious actors of his time, the honourable Morgan Freeman, to what is surely no more than a down market version of No Way Out, a simplistic, basic thriller that leaves a taste so thin in the mouth that it could be mistaken for gruel.

Angel Has Fallen. Film Review. full post

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

Gotham: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ben McKenzie, Robin Lord Taylor, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Sean Pertwee, Camren Bicondova, B.D. Wong, Erin Richards, Cory Michael Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Morena Baccarin, James Frain, Jessica Lucas, Chris Chalk, Drew Powell, Michael Chicklis.

The city of Gotham, majestic, proud, historic and so it seems rotten to the very core of its existence with just a few people holding the barrier tight against all out disorder and mayhem – just the place for the man who is to become one of the city’s leading lights to hone his skills and get to grips with the darkness under his watch.

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

Gotham, Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

Cast: Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Erin Richards, Robin Lord Taylor, David Mazouz, Zabryna Guevara,  Sean Pertwee, Camren Bicondova, Cory Michael Smith, Victoria Cartagena, Andrew Stewart-Jones, John Doman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nick D’Agosto, Morena Baccarin, Chelsea Spack, Richard Kind, Clare Foley, Carol Kane, Peter Scolari, Milo Ventimiglia, Julian Sands.

Gotham, Series One. Television Review. full post

(678 words, estimated 2:43 mins reading time)