Tag Archives: Martin Freeman

Secret Invasion. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Emilia Clarke, Don Cheadle, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Killian Scott, Ben Mendelsohn, Olivia Coleman, Charlayne Woodward, Samuel Adewunmi, Katie Finneran, Irmena Chichikova, Cobie Smulders, Dermot Mulroney, Michael Epp, Anna Madeley, Mark Bazeley, Mark Lewis, Christopher McDonald, Martin Freeman, Nisha Aaliya, Uriel Emil, Tony Curran.

There was a time when artists, actors of all persuasions and abilities, were being dragged to the Senate to give evidence, and to name those to whom they ‘suspected’ of what was euphemistically called ‘Anti-American Activities’, essentially of harbouring the supposed ill-will against the United States of America in the fight against America.

Secret Invasion. Television Series Review. full post

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

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong’o, Daniel Gurira, Winston Duke, Tenoch Huerta, Martin Freeman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dominque Thorne, Florence Kasumba, Michaela Coel, Mabel Cadena.

As a mark of respect to the late Chadwick Boseman, the tribute to a fine actor’s work, should not be in question, but maybe the timing of the release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the way in which the focus was shifted on as one of Marvel’s true great and Golden Age heroes was almost relegated in his pedigree and scope, or even in the way that as a finale to a phase it was messed around should all be given sharp focus on how not to give the excellent Ryan Coogler short shrift when it comes to storytelling.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Film Review. full post

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

The Responder. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Martin Freeman, MyAnna Buring, Adelayo Adedayo, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Mark Womack, Josh Finan, Emily Fairn, Philip Shaun McGuinness, Warren Brown, Ian Hart, Faye McKeever, Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Christine Tremarco, David Loy, Rob Pomfret, Jude Cooper-Kelly, Kerrie Hayes, Dave Hart, Lois Cringle, James Nelson-Joyce, David Bradley, Karl Collins, Philip Whitchurch, Amaka Okafor, Marji Campi, Rita Tushingham, Maud Druine, Michael Starke, Jake Abraham, Paul Campion, Christian Waite, Victor McGuire, Kieran Urquhart, Sylvie Gatrill, Matthew Cottle, Dave Hill, Roy Brandon, Harry Burke, Pat Winker.

The Responder. Television Review. full post

(764 words, estimated 3:03 mins reading time)

A Confession. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Siobhan Finneran, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Jake Davies, Peter Wight, Darcy Vanhinsbergh, Lolly Jones, Ian Puleston-Davies, Simone Lahbib, Owain Arthur, Florence Howard, Jessica D’Arcy, Daniel Betts, Joe Absolom, Faye McKeever, Derek Riddell, Charlie Cooper, Rufus Gerhardt-Williams, Dominic Tighe, Kate Ashfield, Emma Clifford, Anna Wilson-Jones, Caroline Bartleet, Maimie McCoy, David Keeling, David Nellist, Christopher Fulford, Orla Hill, Lisa Faulkner, John Thomson.

A Confession. Television Review. full post

(611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

Ghost Stories. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther, Paul Warren, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nicholas Burns, Louise Atkins, Lesley Harcourt, Amy Doyle, Deborah Wastell, Daniel Hill, Christine Dalby, Jill Halfpenny, Billy Sneddon, Maggie McCarthy, Joe Osborne, Maria Major, Ramzan Miah, Benji Ming, Emily Carding, Leonard Byrne, Macie Allen, Ryan Oliva, Samuel Bottomly, Jake Davies, Oliver Woollford, Callum Goulden, Mike Aarons, Derren Brown, Anthony Davis.

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

Black Panther. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, Stan Lee.

 

It has taken time to get the film right, to put into place a mainstream film in which, not with-standing the excellent Wesley Snipes led Blade trilogy of films, has cast a superhero in which the cinematic experience is one of overwhelming joy, of learning the lessons shared with positive enlightenment and one that does not bow to the demands of absolute anger, Black Panther is a film in which the rise of the proud and the noble who have fought every inch of the way for such a moment will relish, and quite rightly so.

Black Panther. Film Review. full post

(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Sherlock: The Final Problem. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss, Sian Brooke, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Louise Brealey, Amanda Abbington, Andrew Scott, Art Malik, Timothy Carlton, Wanda Ventham, Simon Kunz, Richard Crehan, Matt Young, Tam Mutu.

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(505 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Sherlock Holmes: The Lying Detective. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Amanda Abbington, Louise Brealey, Toby Jones, Lindsay Duncan, Sian Brooke, Asheq Akhtar, Usman Akram, Sharon Cherry Ballard, Miranda Hennessy, Lee Kemp, David Kirkbride, Tom Williams, Chris Wilson.

The rich and powerful can always be counted upon to act how they like, that in cases of responsibility, of holding back and restraint of acts of cruelty, they believe they are untouchable, above the law, both physically and morally; it is how corruption breeds, how money will always look after money and in the end how everybody lies just to keep in line, to toe the official version.

Sherlock Holmes: The Lying Detective. Television Review. full post

(416 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Captain America: Civil War, Film Review. Picturehouse, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Daniel Brühl, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, Martin Freeman, Marisa Tomei, John Kani, John Slattery, Hope Davis, Alfre Woodard, Gene Farber, Stan Lee.

The world hangs in a deadly balance, the world’s mightiest heroes are being reined in by their own kind and their friends and divisions and sides are being forged and broken; the world is used to such fun and games, countries routinely flip in their pursuit of self interest and government greed but to do this to those charged with protecting the planet, it all gets very murky indeed.

Captain America: Civil War, Film Review. Picturehouse, Liverpool. full post

(511 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Scott, Amanda Abbington, Louise Brealey, Jonathan Aris, Tim McInnerny, Natasha O’Keeffe, Yasmine Akram, Taj Smith, Gerald Kyd, Daniel Fearn, Stephanie Hyam, Damian Samuels, Charles Furness, Adam Greaves- Neal, Jessie Hawkes, Dionne Vincent, Kishan Maru, Gavin Lee Lewis, Tim Barlow, David Nellist, Alex Austin.

“It is a war we must lose”, muses Mycroft as he sits with corpulent and greed running through his veins and it seems in every battle there must come a realisation that that the enemy we are fighting is the one that is naturally our ally.

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride. Television Review. full post

(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)