Category Archives: Film

Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Ezra Miller, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Connie Nielsen, J.K. Simmons, Jesse Eisenberg, Ciaran Hinds, Ryan Zheng, Amber Heard, Joe Morton, Lisa Loven Konsli, David Thewlis, Russell Crowe, Billy Crudup, Joe Manganiello.

You can have too much of a good thing, a statement that has been proved time and again throughout history, a well-ironed phrase that insists the buyer beware of consuming more than they can handle, or of inserting too much belief in the product that offers so much intensity and effects that the final product can leave you bloated, knowing that some of what you have devoured is akin to fluff and air.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Film Review. full post

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

SAS: Red Notice. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Sam Heughan, Hannah John-Kamen, Ruby Rose, Andy Serkis, Tom Hopper, Tom Wilkinson, Owain Yeoman, Ray Panthaki, Noel Clarke, Anne Reid, Jing Lusi, Sarah Winter, Caroline Boulton, Richard McCabe, Douglas Reith, Dylan Smith, Attila C. Arpa, Aymen Hamdouchi, Grant Crookes, Tim Fellingham, Roderick Hill, Ty Hurley, Martin Angerbauer, Kevin Ezekiel Ogunleye, Karoly Baksai.

In the best laid traditions of James Bond, Her Majesty’s Government, and the Secret Services, it takes a psychopath to catch a psychopath, however the instrument of such bluntness is a cold steel walnut going up against a fragile glass hammer when it comes to penetrating the exterior of the film lover, especially when such a tale is presented without the humour of 007 or the best laid plan of a worthy adversary.

SAS: Red Notice. Film Review. full post

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

The Silencing. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis, Zahn McClarnon, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Lisa Cromerty, Leland Assinewai, Kayla Dumont, Shaun Smyth, Jason Jazrawy, Brielle Robillard, Melanie Scrofano, Charlotte Lindsay Marron, Patrick Garrow, Mark Charles Cowling, Heather Stevenson, Tiahra Tulloch, Danielle Ryan, Caleb Ellsworth-Clark, Josh Cruddas. 

We have learned through hundreds of years of written storytelling, and thousands of years of oral narrative, that the woods and forests, whilst beautiful to look at, hold many secrets, untold dangers, and creatures that hunt for the sheer exhilaration of the chase, and to feed on those unsuspecting souls who pay no heed to the warnings, or are clouded by the romanticism that has filled their heads of the beauty in the trees.

The Silencing. Film Review. full post

(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

The Witches (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Octavia Spencer, Anne Hathaway, Chris Rock, Jahzir Bruno, Stanley Tucci, Brian Bovell, Joseph Zinvebma, Josette Simon, Jonathan Livingstone, Miranda Sarfo Peprah, Ashanti Prince-Asafo, Lunga Skosana, Vivienne Acheampong, Ken Nwosu, Arnaud Adrian, Charles Edwards, Morgana Robinson, Codie-Lei Eastwick, Sobowale Antonio Bamgbose, Orla O’Rourke, Eurdice El-Etr, Ana-Maria Maskell, Eugenia Caruso, Angus Wright, Cyril Nri.

To compare like with like is only human, and whilst art is not a competition, it cannot be dismissed when holding in your thoughts two versions of a much loved and admired source material to which both versions claim to be authentic and with the spirit of the author in their production.

The Witches (2020). Film Review. full post

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

Spontaneous. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Katherine Langford, Charlie Plummer, Yvonne Orji, Hayley Law, Piper Perabo, Rob Huebel, Chris Shields, Marlowe Percival, Laine MacNeil, Clive Holloway, Doralynn Mui, Kaitlyn Bernard, Jared Ager-Foster, Mellany Barros, Chelah Horsdal, Luvia Petersen, Jarrett Carlington, Peter Bundic, Bzhaun Rhoden, Braeden Shrimpton, Eva Day.

A film should not have to rely on age or a viewer’s monocled taste to be seen, and perhaps admired for what it brings to the screen, like any art form the more people that see it, the more perhaps life can be understood, the snapshot of thought is not what we ignore, but what we are willing to embrace.

Spontaneous. Film Review. full post

(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

To Olivia. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Keeley Hawes, Darcey Ewart, Isabella Jonsson, Geoffrey Palmer, Sam Heughan, Conleth Hill, Michael Jibson, Sam Philips, Grant Crookes, Bobby O’ Neill, Bodhi Marsan, Robert Jarvis, Sarah Beckett, Jane-Charlotte Jones.

The life of the artist, the writer, the poet, is quite often one of doubt, frustration, isolation and damnation, and when they find even the one person who will listen to the fear wrapped up in the measures of beauty, at the back of their mind they know one day they might lose them, who might move on to new adventures told in a different way, or that like any adult, simply fade away, the shadow of their attention dissipating into the ether, like water from a tap that is slowly being turned off, the flow only matters if it is constant and observed.

To Olivia. Film Review. full post

(657 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

Becky. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Robert Maillet, Amanda Brugel, Isaiah Rockcliffe, Ryan McDonald, James McDougall, Leslie Adlam, Justin Holiday, Mike Dara, Charles Boyland, Bryan Edwards, Andrew Siwik, Chandra Michaels, Gage Graham-Arbuthnot, John D. Hickman, Markus Radan, Kaleb Young, Ric Garcia.

Is the psychopath or the killer created or are they born? The psychoanalysts’ nightmare scenario is that they cannot distinguish between the states of mind that either drive someone to kill based on the actions they encountered or been beaten by, or whether it is truly, disturbingly, inherent in the human subconscious to the point where any youth can mask such feelings of behaviour by society putting it down to associated teenage angst and torment.

Becky. Film Review. full post

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

Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett, Ewan McGregor, Ella Jay Basco, Chris Messina, Ali Wong, Derek Wilson, Joe Buraco III, Steven Williams, Charlene Amoia, K.K. Barrett.

The comic book became darker, it turned away from the quirky but loved offspring of the three or four picture strip that embedded themselves in the newspapers of the thirties and forties and in turn gave itself the new self-determined title of the Graphic Novel, and to the rejoice of the reader who immersed themselves into the world of D.C., Marvel and other purveyors of tales of suspense and disbelief, that they were no longer to be seen as people to be scorned or mocked, that in that name change, a commanding of respect was delivered.

Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn). Film Review. full post

(611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

The Swerve. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Azura Skye, Bryce Pinkham, Ashley Bell, Zach Rand, Taen Phillips, Liam Seib, Deborah Hedwell, Jason Gupton, Dan Daily, Lindsay Jackson, Kristine Sorenson, Jenna Marie Hess, Gretchen Portelles, Chadwick Davilsaint, Maikel Ramic, Josh England, Stevie Holcomb.

The Swerve. Film Review. full post

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

Twist. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Michael Caine, Lena Hedley, Rafferty Law, Sophie Simnett, David Walliams, Rita Ora, Noel Clarke, Franz Drameh, Jason Maza, Samuel Leakey, Tanya Burr, Sally Collett,

There is a fine line between reinvention for art’s-sake and revolution for the gift of authentic uniqueness, and whatever your view on adapting a classic story for the modern age, the result must be one that installs a connection between the social conscious and the message intended and that of the one actively using their senses to understand that it is not just intended for them, but for all.

Twist. Film Review. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)