Category Archives: Film

Bill & Ted Face The Music. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, William Sadler, Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Hal Landon Jr., Beck Bennett, Kid Cudi, Amy Stoch, Holland Taylor, Jillian Bell, Dave Grohl, DazMann Still, Jeremiah Craft, Sharon Gee, Patty Anne Miller, George Carlin, Piotr Michael.

It is time to face the music, the unavoidable truth, that not everything in life that has a certain groundswell of opinion must be made, produced, or even given much consideration. That is the position that Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter regrettably find themselves in as they return 25 years later to their alter egos of Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan in Bill & Ted Face The Music.

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(523 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

School’s Out Forever. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Oscar Kennedy, Liam Lau Fernandez, Anthony Head, Alex Macqueen, Steve Oram, Jasmine Blackborow, Samantha Bond, Max Rapheal, Sebastian Croft, Richard Elfyn, Harry Tuffin, Freya Parks, Gordon Alexander, Alex Blake, Ben Dilloway, Jayden Elijah, Arun Bassi, Stellan Powell, James Corrigan, Connie Hyde.

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(554 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

The Comeback Trail. (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Kate Katzman, Eddie Griffin, Chris Mullinax, Patrick Muldoon, Julie Lott, Blerim Destani, Vincent Spano, Paul Witten, Aighleann McKiernan, Melissa Greenspan, Joel Michaely, Jermaine Washington, Desiree Geraldine, Morse Bicknell, Danno Hanks.

Like the Blues, it seemed inevitable that the days of the Western movie being cinematic gold had long since departed in a wave of nostalgia and fond memories, and whilst the audience might miss the gun smoke, the sense of identifying with the lone pioneer of days long past, the constant signalling and portrayal of the Native American people as the casting villain, the rampant stereotyping, and negativity is something that is not missed at all.

The Comeback Trail. (2020). Film Review. full post

(562 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Where’d You Go, Bernadette. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson, Kristen Wiig, Patrick Sebes, Zoe Chao, David Paymer, Megan Mullally, Laurence Fishbourne, Steve Zahn, Patrick Jordan, Shaun Cameron Hall, Judy Greer, Maureen d’Armand, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Kate Burton.

There are those who will stifle a person’s creativity to the point that when it has been beaten out of them, they then complain that the artist has given up on life, that they should just admit that they have no value and become a drone, an automaton, serving only the capitalist gain of supply and demand in the consumable.

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

The New Mutants. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10

Cast: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga, Adam Beach, Thomas Kee, Colbi Gannett, Happy Anderson, Dustin Ceithamer, Jacinto Vega SpiritWolf, Chuck, Marilyn Manson, Jeffrey Corazzini, Mickey Gilmore, Max Schochet.

It is a tale of divided generations, the ones that have been fortunate, blessed even, to find themselves in a time when cinematic adaptions of their favourite Marvel characters has by and large been positive, the reception for example of the transfer to television with some of what may be considered minor hitters from the long list of heroes and villains finding themselves to be just as  rightly adored as the perpetual is a symbol of the staying power of the dominance that Marvel has over its rivals in creating the hero for our time.

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

Stardust. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Johnny Flynn, Marc Maron, Jena Malone, Derek Moran, Anthony Flanagan, Julian Richings, Aaron Poole, Monica Parker, Ryan Blakely, Gord Rand, Paulino Nunes, Richard Clarkin, Brendan J. Rowland, Jeremy Legat, Annie Briggs, Olivia Carruthers, Geoffrey McGivern, Lara Heller, Martin Askew, Dylan Roberts, Olivia Becker, James Cade, David Hubbard, Jorja Cadence, Gracie Robbin.

To be constrained by feelings of inadequacy, of guilt, or of range, to believe that your voice will be lost in a sea of thousands as they jostle for attention in the screaming void, is perhaps to understand madness, or at least fear it.

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(565 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Rambo: Last Blood. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Adriana Barraza, Yvette Monreal, Joaquin Cosio, Jessica Madsen, Oscar Jaenada, Fenessa Pineda, Marco de la O, Alvaro Flores, Ursula Murayama, Cathy Pulido, Tick Zingale, Manuel Uriza.

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(606 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

Death Of Me. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Maggie Q, Luke Hemsworth, Alex Essoe, Kat Ingkarat, Kelly B. Jones, Caledonia Burr, Chatchawai Kamonsakpitak, Sahapoom Totrungsup, Tanapath Singamrath, Oliver Paul Varry, Saengkham Chanthawong, Irada Ritsira, Tannapat Sirimat, Katria Louise Reed, Somjai Hmanbut, Pivanit Ambavat, Panapat Chankasemmima, Jidapa Suwet-Ekkul, Michael S. New, Santiphap Tubnguen, Rapeepat Phromanumet, Bryan Michael Rilinger, Pissinee Raksakul.

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(501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

When Another Dragon Roars (2021). Theatre/Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lucy Fiori, Austin Mitchell Hewitt.

Theatre is important for the development of younger minds; it allows the child or pre-teen to be immersed into a world where they can interact and understand their emotions in a way that quite often television and film cannot convey because of the system being a one-way flow of information.

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

Happily. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Kerry Bishe, Joel McHale, Al Madrigal, Natalie Zea, Paul Scheer Billie Wolff, Stephen Root, Natalie Morales, Jon Daly, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Shannon Woodward, Charlyne Yi, Brecklin Meyer, Brea Grant.

Of all the emotions that humans suffer, jealousy is arguably one of the worst, it brings out a certain vileness, a baseness of feeling which can lead to unpleasantness, contempt, and in the end the destruction of friendships and love through a lowness of action that is on par with despicability.

Happily. Film Review. full post

(492 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)