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Our Flag Means Death. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Matthew Maher, Nathan Foad, Samba Schutte, Con O’Neill, Vico Ortiz, Kristian Nairn, David Fane, Ewen Bremner, Nat Faxon, Madeleine Sami, Leslie Jones, Ruibo Qian, Anapela Polataivao, Michael Crane, Erroll Shand, Amanda Grace Leo, Rachel House, Minnie Driver, Mark Mitchinson, Bronson Pinchot.

History in the hands of the wilfully uneducated or the fool is in danger of being erased and found to be redacted as a matter of course; but in the hands of a genius who plays with the world through the medium of satire and graceful humour, it can lead the intended target to a place of discovery and the realm of unending treasure.

Our Flag Means Death. Series Two. Television Review. full post

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

Our Flag Means Death. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Con O’Neill, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Nathan Foad, Matthew Maher, Kristian Nairn, Samba Schutte, Ewen Bremner, Vico Ortiz, Nat Faxon, Rory Kinnear, Guz Khan, David Fane, Eden Grace Redfield, William Barber-Holler, Leslie Jones, Connor Barrett, Boris McGiver, Fred Armisen, Michael Crane, Theo Darby, Angus Sampson, Nick Kroll, Simone Kessell, Kristen Schaal, Kristen Johnston, Mateo Gallegos, Damien Gerard, Carlos Areliano, Ashna Sharan, Christian Lagadec, Jeff Lorch, Cornelius Peter.

History is but a consecutive set of lies passed off as fact and written down in accordance by historians to dispute at leisure.

Our Flag Means Death. Television Review. full post

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

While We’re Young, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Naomi Watts, Ben Stiller, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Maria Dizzia, Adam Horovitz, Matthew Maher, Bonnie Kaufman, Hector Otero, Deborah Eisenberg, Dree Hemingway, Matthew Shear.

 

One of the biggest problems with humanity is that nothing is truly unique anymore. Our voices are confined with a masking obscurity of soundbites and instant quotes, our actions governed by what has gone before and if by chance something truly exclusive and distinctive is said, it gets tarnished within hours on social media and copied world-wide. In a world where seven billion people inhabit every available bit of land and conscious, to be the one outstanding adult is pretty much impossible, the optimism of this is to only be felt While We’re Young.

While We’re Young, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(600 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)