Tag Archives: Jamie Dornan

The Tourist. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Victoria Haralabidou, Greg Larson, Conor MacNeil, Olwen Fouéré, Francis Magee, Réginal-Roland Kudiwu, Diarmaid Murtagh, Nessa Matthews, Mark McKenna, Nathan Page.

The first series of The Tourist was the kind of instant television hit that had the nation talking, the sun-baked Noir outback of Australia’s dusty landscape acting as the perfect accomplice to the mystery that saw Jamie Dornan’s amnesiac Man search for the answers to his predicament and the salvation in which he comes to understand as his life becomes one of cat and mouse, of damnation.

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(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

A Haunting In Venice. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Kelly Reilly, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Riccardo Scamarcio, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Amir El-Masry, Ferando Piloni, Lorenzo Acquaviva, David Menkin, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Rowen Robinson, Emma Laird, Vanessa Ifediora, Kyle Allen, Ali Khan, Esther Rae Tillotson, Winnie Soldi.

Agatha Christie is the queen of crime, but even those of literary royal blood must admit that there is a period of time in their career that just doesn’t align itself to any other; and the longer the reign, the more likely it is to be at the final curtain that the illumination starts to fade; literature aping real life as the spell can be, hopefully not broken, but perhaps witnessed for what it is; a last hurrah of a genius mind.

A Haunting In Venice. Film Review. full post

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

The Tourist. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Bruce-Franklin, Damon Herriman, Alex Dimitriades, Olafur Darri Ólafsson, Kamil Ellis, Damien Strouthos, Greg Larson, Victoria Haralabidou, Geneviève Lemon, Alex Andreas, Jeanette Cronin, David Collins, Rhonda Doyle, Simon Gligora, Ansuya Nathan, Stephen Hunter, Renee Lim, Lasarus Ratuere, Mark Fantasia, Kyle Robertson, Willian Rodrigues, Jasper Bagg, Brett Blake, Maria Mercedes, Natasha Wanganeen.

The Tourist. Television Review. full post

(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

A Private War, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Tom Hollander, Faye Marsay, Corey Johnson, Greg Wise, Alexandra Moen, Jesuthasan Antonyhasan, Raman Srinivasan, Natasha Jayetileke, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Amanda Drew, Hilton McRae, Fady Elsayed, Tristan Tait, Toma Shelmon, Nadeem Srouji, Mahmoud Al Fari, Rani Jalal, Thaer Manakhi, David Modigliani, Pano Masti, Stanley Tucci, Mo’ath Sharif, Rami Delshad, Bassam Hanna Touma, Jeremie Laheurte, Raad Rawi, Emil Hajj.

The line between truth and distortion lays not only in the hands of the reader, but in the sincerity of the journalist whose name appears before the attention-grabbing headline.

A Private War, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Death And Nightingales. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Matthew Rhys, Ann Skelly, Jamie Dornan, Valene Kane, Charlene McKenna, Martin McCann, Sean McGinley, Michael Smiley, Francis Magee, Des McAleer, Ciaran Flynn, Aoibheann Mullan, Paul Kennedy, Eugene O’Hare, Pip Torrens, Conor MacNeill, Frankie McCafferty.

Against the backdrop of the fight for radical Irish independence from Britain in the 19th Century, a story of corruption, betrayal and tragedy is neatly interwoven through a 24 hour period in the life of Beth Winters, a condensed down reflection of what was happening across the Irish Sea, the pride of individuality and freedom from what was arguably seen as a distant master, one who made all the rules but wanted to keep the people in chains, if not physically, then at least metaphorically.

Death And Nightingales. Television Review. full post

(422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Robin Hood (2018). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, Jamie Dornan, Tim Minchin, Paul Anderson, F. Murray Abraham, Ian Peck, Cornelius Booth, Kane Headley-Cummings, Scott Greenan, Lara Rossi, Kevin Griffiths, Bjorn Bengtsson, Yasen Atour, Nick Wittman, Josh Herdman.

When you re-imagine the tale, there will always be arrows of derision ready to take aim and fire off volleys of shots of criticism; tampering with a classic is for some beyond acceptable, the story should be sacrosanct, etched in stone and forever told in a way that respects the past, as much as it pays esteem to our memory of it.

Robin Hood (2018). Film Review. full post

(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones, Brian Caspe, Karel Hermánek Jr., Sara Arsteinova, Sean Mahon, Jan Hájek, Marcin Dorocinski, Alena Mihulová, Bill Milner, Charlotte Le Bon, Pavel Reznícek, Anna Geislerová, Justin Svoboda, Harry Lloyd, Václav Neuzil, Jiri Simek, Detlof Bothe, Jan Budar, Mish Boyko, David Bredin, Roman Zach, Sam Keeley, Alexander van der Groeben, Andrej Polak.

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

(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Fall, Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, John Lynch, Bronagh Waugh, Niamh McGrady, Sarah Beattie, Aisling Franciosi, Emmett J Scanlan, Archie Panjabi, Stuart Graham, Gerard Jordan, Bronagh Taggart, Valene Kane, Richard Clements, Jonjo O’Neill, Kelly Gough, Orla Mullan, Colin Morgan, Ruairí Tohill.

The Fall of humanity is a precarious downward path and it can start with a single dominant voice whispering in the dark, it soft murmuring causing a fuse to blow somewhere and in which starts the domino like destruction wrought on society is one that should be investigated more and evidence found in which to support the afflicted in the future. What happens before then though can be seen a terrorizing game between two people and in The Fall that game is played out with the severest of consequences.

The Fall, Series Two. Television Review. full post

(583 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)