Tag Archives: Misty Upham

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, Marnie Gummer, Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Chris Messina, Lucy Punch, Britt Robertson, Allan Moldono, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Misty Upham., Evan O’ Toole.

Nobody can snap a finger and make you better; nobody can get inside your head and see the grief that assists the pain that the body feels.  When every movement feels like torture, even the briefest glimpse of something bright and hopeful only serves to remind what was lost. It is almost the perfect summing up for Jennifer Aniston’s latest film, Cake.

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

(608 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

August: Osage County, Film Review. FACT Cinema.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepherd, Misty Upham.

August: Osage County, a beautiful, flat and hot place to visit but you wouldn’t want to be related a particular family that resides there.

When renowned published poet Beverly Weston decides to take his own life, the can of spiteful and mean-spirited worms come flooding out everywhere and into the lives of the family members left behind, chiefly in the viscous tongue of drug addicted cancer patient of his wife Violet Weston. Nobody is immune, and like a disease floating free in the air, multiplies and takes root in the actions of some of those around her until words are said that become too much to bear.

August: Osage County, Film Review. FACT Cinema. full post

(578 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)