Category Archives: Film

Predator: Killer Of Killers. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa, Rick Gonzalez, Michael Biehn, Doug Cockle, Damien Haas, Lauren Holt, Jeff Leach, Piotr Michael, Andrew Morgado, Felix Solis, Britton Watkins.

Mean, full of rippling muscle, a film that reignites the fear that first came way of the cinema goer almost 40 years ago, Predator: Killer of Killers is a surprise inclusion to the long running franchise, but one like the previous feature of Prey, holds the ethos of the monster up on a pedestal and with the highest of respect.

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

Venom: The Last Dance. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu, Clark Backo, Alanna Ubach, Cristo Fernández, Jared Abrahamson, Hala Finley, Dash McCloud, Andy Serkis, Reid Scott.

Like many Sony attempts to fulfil the needs of the Marvel fans’ expectations of how the surrounding Spider-Man players would fare in their own film, the downgrading of Venom over time has seriously demolished what was perhaps the finest character outside of the MCU, and whilst the initial story of the alien symbiote who melded with Eddie Brock was startlingly good fun, offering Tom Hardy the chance to play a part for fun, in its third outing, Venom: The Last Dance, the enjoyment has become at best a middling affair, given a small dosage of high craft in its appearance, but very little else to give the creature, or Tom Hardy, the gravitates they both deserve.

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

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nock Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Cary Elwes, Katy O’Brian, Stephen Oyoung, Tomás Paredes.

The mission, it seems, is never over, and if a franchise still appeals to the vast majority of cinema goers, then who can truly say when the curtain should be drawn and the opera singer given the instruction to sing the closing title.

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

The Phoenician Scheme. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Alex Jennings, Jason Watkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johanson, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Richard Ayoade, Riz Ahmed, Willem Defoe, F. Murray Abraham, Bill Murray, Donald Sumpter, Rupert Friend, Mathieu Amalric.

What it is to live in the mind of Wes Anderson, what it would be as a writer to sample the sense of creativity of the absurdly connective narrative and see it as a critique of the overblown dramas that use verbal interchange as a mission to dull the intellect of the masses as they substitute shock value for false cool; for only in the way that Mr. Anderson portrays the ordinary and adds beautifully entrancing possibility of language does truth show its true colours in the characters and logic of the piece.

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(388 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Thunderbolts*. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Geraldine Viswanathan, Olga Kurylenko, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, Hannah John-Kamen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gabreille Byndloss, Violet McGraw, Stefano Carannante, Alexa Swinton.

Where Captain America: Brave New World felt for large parts of the audience was by introducing characters to the screen too quickly, forcing a team dynamic where there had not been one in place for the audience to become accustomed to, to have a vested interested within.

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(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Final Destination: Bloodlines. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Tony Todd, Teo Briones, Rya Kihlstedt, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Alex Zahara, April Telek, Tinpo Lee, Brec Bassinger, Gabrielle Rose, Max Lloyd-Jones, Brenna Llewellyn, Natasha Burnett, Jayden Oniah, Mark Brandon, Yvette Ferguson, Garfield Wilson, Justin Stone, Noah Bromley.

To present horror on screen those behind the scenes must do so with an element of dark humour attached to the project. It is all well and good having the ability to scare people, but with the sense of uncomfortable must come the notion that you want the viewer to laugh without realising, to find themselves regretting the slip in emotions as they witness in the revulsion at first hand.

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

Smile 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Ray Nicholson, Dylan Gelula, Raúl Castillo, Kyle Gallner, Drew Barrymore, Trevor Newlin, Zebedee Row, Robert Jekabsons, Sean Stolzen, Jon Rua, Vladimir Duthiers, Kristine Johnson, Margot Weintraub, Christopher Bailey.

To undergo the transformation from being considered a family friendly actor to being someone who can hold their own in the melee of a decently told horror stories to which cinema has constantly probed takes an aptitude of unrelenting talent to which the actor is unafraid of exploring.

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(337 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Coming 2 America. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Shari Headley, John Amos, Nomzamo Mbatha, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, Clint Smith, KiKi Layne, Wesley Snipes, Teyna Taylor, Bella Murphy, Akiley Love, Paul Bates, Louie Anderson, James Earl Jones, Rotimi, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Colin Jost, Kevin T. DeWitt, Luenell, Rodney Perry, Michael Blackson, Rick Ross, Garcelle Beauvais, Vanessa Colon, Janette Colon, Morgan Freeman, Gladys Knight.

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(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Captain America: Brave New World. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez, Shira Hass, Carl Lumbly, Tim Blake Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Xosha Roquemore, Jóhannes Hauker Jóhannesson, William Mark McCullough, Takehiro Hira, Harsh Nayyar, Rick Espaillat, Todd Allen Durkin, Dustin Lewis, Rachael Kubacki, Alan Boell, Ava Hill, Marissa Chanel Hampton, Katerina Eichenberger, Mark Pettit, John Mark Bowman, Katina Rankin, John Cihangir, Eric Mbanda, Koji Nishiyama, Davis Atkinson, John N. Dixon, Josh Robin, Sharon Tazewell, Pete Burris, Sebastian Stan.

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

The Last Voyage of The Demeter. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Chris Walley, Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapicic, Martin Furuland, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Woody Norman, Javier Botet, Graham Turner, Andy Murray, Nicola Passetti, Christopher York, Vladimir Cabek, Rudolf Danielewicz, Noureddine Farihi, Malcolm Galea, Adam Shaw, Jack Doggart, Joe Depasquale, Sally Reeve.

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(662 words, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)