Tag Archives: Sam Reid

The Newsreader. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anna Torv, Sam Reid, Robert Taylor, William McInnes, Marg Downey, Stephen Peacocks, Michella Lim Davidson, Chum Ehelepola, Rory Fleck Byrne, Daniel Gillies, Philippa Northeast, Chai Hansen, Caroline Lees, Maria Angelico, John Leary, Jackson Tozer, Rhys Mitchell, Dan Spielman, Hunter Page-Lochard.

If everything in life is a political act, then we are in effect the news. We may be a bystander on the scene, but in effect our presence makes us a leading player in observance, and how re react to the narrative is how we are judged by those who sift through the pictures and present their evidence to the awaiting world via The Newsreader who is the most constant face on our television screens.

The Newsreader. Series Two. Television Drama Review. full post

(528 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Interview With The Vampire. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Assad Zaman, Bailey Bass, Kalyne Coleman, Chris Stack, Christian Robinson, Rae Dawn Chong, Maura Grace Athari, Roxane Duran, John DiMaggio, Jeff Pope, Dana Gourrier, Rachel Alana Handler, Rudy Eisenzopf, Kyle Roussel.

There is a difference between glitz and style, one not often noted upon when there is money thrown at glitz as if it were the smart prospect in the room because it has the big name behind it, bravado mistaken for confidence, arrogance confused with grace, and one that can be the ruin of a franchise before it even starts; for in humility the viewer immersed in a series created on the back of one of the best selling books of all time will be enthralled and not overwrought with the smell of perfume disguising the smell of rotten meat.

Interview With The Vampire. Television Drama Review. full post

(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

The Newsreader. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Anna Torv, Sam Reid, William McInnes, Michelle Lim Davidson, Chum Ehelepola, Chai Hansen, Marg Downey, Stephen Peacocke, Robert Taylor, Caroline Lee, Maude Davey, Bert LeBonté, Jackson Tozer, Maria Angelico, John Leary, Peter Houghton, Dom Phelan, Tony Rickards, Robert Grubb, Edwina Wren, Rhys Mitchell, Tim Draxl Cullen Gorman, Hany Lee, Meewon Yang, Rohan Mirchandaney, Melissa Jaffer, Anne Charleston, Alexandra Schepisi, Stephen Lopez, Peter Paltos, David Woods, Alex Duncan, David Whiteley, Blair Venn, Keith Brockett, Natalia Novikova.

The Newsreader. Television Review. full post

(785 words, estimated 3:08 mins reading time)

The Limehouse Golem, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Eddie Marsan, Douglas Booth, Sam Reid, Maria Valverde, Daniel Mays, Henry Goodman, Adam Brown, Morgan Watkins, Damien Thomas, Peter Sullivan, Amelia Crouch, Simon Meacock, Siobhán Cullen, Keeley Forsyth, Mark Tandy, Michael Jenn, David Macey, Craig Thomas Lambert, Levi Heaton, Clive Russell, David Bamber.

 

The Limehouse Golem, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Prime Suspect 1973, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Stefanie Martini, Sam Reid, Blake Harrison, Alun Armstrong, Andrew Brooke, Daniel Ezra, Jessica Gunning, Joshua Hill, Jordan Long, Tommy McDonnell, Ruth Sheen, Lex Shrapnel, Jay Taylor, Rosie Day, Clive De-Halton Gibson, Nicholas Sidi, Anthony Skordi, Geraldine Somerville, Nneka Okoye, Aaron Pierre, Nancy Caroll, Jacob James Beswick, Thomas Coombes, Dorian Lough.

Prime Suspect 1973, Television Review. full post

(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Ifans, Sean Harris, Toby Jones, Sam Reid, David Dencik, Blake Ritson, Ned Dennehy, Charity Wakefield, Michael Ryan, Kim Bodnia, Ana Ularu.

There are those that say that the great American epic is dead. That the days of the great American cinematic nature/love/natural landscape story is as over, torn apart by the digitisation and CGI effects on offer to the 21st Century audiences. It is hard to disagree with that assertion, no matter how much grief and pain it may cause when viewed from the darkness of a cinema screening of Serena.

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

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

’71, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jack O’ Connell, Paul Anderson, Sam Reid, Seam Harris, Charlie Murphy, Sam Hazeldine, Killian Scott, Richard Dormer, Barry Keoghan, David Wilmot, Martin McCann, Corey McKinley, Valene Kane, Paul Popplewell, Amy Molloy, Joshua Hill, Eric Campbell, Ben Peel, Jack Lowden, Nicola-Jayne Wells, Lee Bolton, Babou Casey, Liam McMahon, Denise Gough, Paul Bergquist, Dawn Bradfield.

In any war there are always two sides to the tale. Both sides normally deserve airing, with certain objections to history and they deserve to be told with the greatest of respect and humility; a chance for an understanding to be reached before the apportioning of blame, retribution and justice can be sought.

’71, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Emily Watson, Sam Reid, Tom Felton, James Norton, Miranda Richardson, Penelope Wilton, Sarah Gadon, Matthew Goode, Lauren Julien-Box, Natasha Williams, Alan McKenna, Timothy Walker, David Gant, Charlotte Roach, Rupert Wickham, Bethan Mary-James, Alana Ramsey, Alex Jennings, Daniel Wilde, Susan Brown, James Northcote, Andrew Woodall, Edmund Short, Christopher Middleton.

Pride meets extremism prejudice in Misan Sagay’s well written script for the film Belle.

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

(594 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

The Railway Man, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgård, Sam Reid, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tanroh Ishida, Marta Dusseldorp, Masa Yamaguchi, Keiichi Enomoto, James Fraser, Shoota Tanahashi, Akos Armont.

 

The Railway Man might face strong competition for the title of Best British film in 2014 but it won’t for the want of being an absolutely brilliant film with a cast that shines throughout and with the horrors of war not glossed over and forgotten. It is not a film to be taken lightly; it should be approached, just like the other film out this weekend, 12 Years A Slave, as not just a piece of cinema, to be sat through and then left discarded at the foot of the mind as other films get shown throughout the year, but as a piece of history, cinematic or otherwise.

The Railway Man, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool. full post

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

Miss Marple, Greenshaw’s Folly. Television Review. I.T.V.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Julia McKenzie, Julia Sawalha, Fiona Shaw, Robert Glenister, John Gordon Sinclair, Judy Parfitt, Vic Reeves, Kimberley Nixon, Rufus Jones, Matt Wills, Joanna David, Bobby Smalldridge, Candida Gubbins, Sam Reid, Martin Compston,

Rarely does Miss Marple stray into the domain held dear by Agatha Christie’s other great creation of Hercule Poirot, that of the understated darkness in greed or supposed glory. Mostly whatever deeds have been committed in the cases of Miss Marple it has been for love or lust. Greenshaw’s Folly though perhaps sees the elderly spinster at her very best as she deals not only with horrifying aftermath of spousal abuse but the very worst case of murder, premeditated and for gain.

Miss Marple, Greenshaw’s Folly. Television Review. I.T.V. full post

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