Category Archives: Film

Emma (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Gemma Whelan, Bill Nighy, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart, Angus Imrie, Letty Thomas, Aiden White, Edward Davis, Myra McFadyen, Esther Coles, Suzy Bloom, Suzanne Toase, Nicholas Burns, Josh O’Connor, Johnny Flynn, Connor Dalton, Lucy Briers, Mia Goth, Anna Francolini, Connor Swinells, Christopher Godwin, Vanessa M. Owen, Isis Hainsworth, Hannah Stokely, Charlotte Weston, Max Toovey, Cecelia Jacob, Cody Gipson, Tabitha Coop, Juno Coop, Chloe Pirrie, Oliver Chris, Rose Shaloo, Amber Anderson, Callum Turner, Tanya Reynolds.

Emma (2020). Film Review. full post

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

Doctor Dolittle (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Michael Sheen, Antonio Banderas, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Buckley, Harry Collett, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard, Kasia Smutniak, Carmel Laniado, Frances de la Tour, Jason Mantzoukas, Ralph Ineson, Joanna Page, Sonny Ashbourne Serkis, Oliver Chris, Clive Francis, Eliot Barnes-Worrell.

Doctor Dolittle (2020). Film Review. full post

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

The Rhythm Section. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Blake Lively, Jude Law, Raza Jaffrey, Tawfeek Barhom, Sterling K. Brown, Richard Brake, Matilda Ziegler, Elly Curtis, David Duggan, Bill O’Connell, Ivana Basic, Irma Mali, Geoff Bell, Tawfeek Barhom, Jack McEvoy, Nasser Memarzia, Amira Ghazalla.

Cinema loves a good tale of revenge, a lost soul with a cause that is just, who has lost all they had, but who came back fighting with a purpose to right the wrongs bestowed upon them by thieves, murderers and even governments; cinema loves a good tale of vengeance, also it has a lot to say about those films that want to live in that world but barely live up to the highs that the medium has offered audiences throughout the last hundred years.

The Rhythm Section. Film Review. full post

(636 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

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.

Lost Transmissions. Film Review. full post

(625 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

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.

Fantasy Island. Film Review. full post

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

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.

Fanny Lye Deliver’d. Film Review. full post

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

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.

Astronaut. Film Review. full post

(571 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

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.

The Hunt. Film Review. full post

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

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.

Jojo Rabbit. Film Review. full post

(616 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

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.

Resistance. Film Review. full post

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