Category Archives: Film

Lost Transmissions. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Juno Temple, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Hazlewood, Daisy Bishop, Jamie Harris, Grant Harvey, Danny Ramirez, Robert Schwartzman, Alexandra Daddario, Jacob Loeb, Mickey Schiff, Andres Faucher, Charles Boothe, Reef Karim, Anthony Rossomando, Bria Vinaite, Nana Ghana, Corey Mendell Parker, Jonathan Ohye, Tao Okamoto, Nic D’Avirro, Marius De Vries.

Fantasy Island. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Michael Pena, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell, Jimmy O. Yang, Portia Doubleday, Ryan Hansen, Michael Rooker, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Mike Vogel, Kim Coates, Robbie Jones, Jeriva Benn, Charlotte McKinney, Josh McConville, Tane Williams-Accra, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, Ian Roberts, Evan Evagora, Goran D. Kleut, Josh Randall, Joshua Diaz, Andrew Lees, Nick Slater.

As British musician Thomas Dolby once elegantly, perhaps mischievously, once sang, “There is nothing new under the sun“, and whilst you can always put a new twist on an old theme, put a new cover on an old favourite chair, it doesn’t make it original; it doesn’t fool anyone into believing anything but that it is of illusion and memory for once stood out.

Fanny Lye Deliver’d. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds, Zak Adams, Peter McDonald, Perry Fitzpatrick, Kenneth Collard.

The freedom to rejoice in a life that you wish to live is one that is forever ongoing, and one that was hard fought against by the patriarchal dominated church which sought to keep women under the subjugation of men for thousands of years, and which has ridiculously managed to keep some semblance of authoritarian control over a woman’s body and her mind in much of the world even in a modern age of enlightenment and with feminism very much offering sovereignty, a sanctity of independence delivered.

Astronaut. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Richard Dreyfus, Lyriq Bent, Krista Bridges, Colm Feore, Richie Lawrence, Art Hindle, Graham Greene, Judy Marshak, Jennifer Phipps, Joan Gregson, Karen LeBlanc, Paulino Nunes, Mike Taylor, Colin Mochrie, Jeff Douglas, Rhona Shekter, Anthony Bekenn, Maria Ricossa, Jason Burke, Alex Hatz, Peter Valdron, Sandra Beech, Jonathan Walton, Lori Hallier, Ryan LaPlante, Rosemary Dunmore.

The Hunt. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall, Ethan Suplee, Emma Roberts, Christopher Berry, Sturgill Simpson, Kate Nowlin, Amy Madigan, Reed Birney, Glenn Howerton, Steve Coulter, Dean J. West, Vince Pisani, Teri Wyble, Steve Mokate, Sylvia Grace Crim, Jason Fitzpatrick, Mokate Blair, J.C. MacKenzie, Tadasay Young, Hannah Alline, Jim Klock, Usman Ally, Walker Babington, Ariel Eliaz, Alexander Babara.

Horror isn’t just the preserve of the unknown, unearthly monster that is brought into existence by some unsuspecting teenager, nor it is the mask of a killer who terrorises locals and strangers and brings a neighbourhood to its knees through tricks, suspicions, acts of debauchery and disgust.

Jojo Rabbit. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Taika Waititi, Scarlett Johansson, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, Stephen Merchant, Archie Yates, Luke Brandon Field, Sam Haygarth, Stanislav Callas, Joe Weintraub, Brian Caspe, Gabriel Andrews, Billy Raynor.

It is a startling and sober fact of life that there will always be people that will not only toe the party line, but actively and resolutely be so brainwashed by rhetoric that they cannot see the words used for what they are, lies, insidious and deceptive, full of fire and brimstone, but hollow, meaningless, insufferably filled with hate, consumed by madness.

Resistance. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Clemence Poesy, Felix Moati, Vica Kerekes, Matthais Schweighofer, Geza Rohrig, Ed Harris, Bella Ramsey, Martha Issova, Karl Markovics, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Alex Fondja, Aurelie Bancilhon, Alicia Von Rittberg, Louise Morell, Wolfgang Ceczor, Philip Lenkowsky, Edgar Ramirez, Klara Issova, Dimitri Storoge, Felicity Montague.

It is perhaps understandable that we look at life with a sense of myopia, a lack of seeing the larger picture, only content to know what have already gleaned from our youth and dismissing any further layering of contextualisation or adding to our knowledge of events, of other cultures, or indeed how different people view and appreciate art; understandable but not a train of thought that should be approved of, must not be allowed to prevail.

Richard Jewell. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Nina Arianda, Eric Mendenhall, Mitchell Hoog, David Shae.

Get it first, but first get it right“, these words of journalistic lore have somehow become lost in the advent of wall to wall news coverage, the search for constant ratings, and the salaciousness that can be relayed to a baying public who have forgotten the meaning of seeing any breaking headline and then dismissing what the article has to say.

The Invisible Man (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Michael Dorman, Benedict Hardie, Renee Lim, Brian Meegan, Nick Kici, Vivienne Greer, Nicholas Hope, Cleave Williams, Cardwell Lynch, Sam Smith.

Alongside The War Of The Worlds, The Invisible Man is perhaps H.G Wells’ most adapted piece of literature, and like its literary predecessor it has suffered under the enormous weight of thought that has gone into the writing to ever truly ever be captured perfectly on more that one occasion.

Above Suspicion. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Sophie Lowe, Johnny Knoxville, Austin Hebert, Thora Birch, Karl Glusman, Kevin Dunn, Brian Lee Franklin, Omar Benson Miller, Chris Mulkey, Brittany O’Grady, Luke Spencer Roberts,  Lex Kelli, Landon Durrence, Nettie Kraft, Taxo Michaels, Joshua Mikel, Katie Campbell, Daniel R. Hill.