Category Archives: Film

Never Let Go. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Mykelti Williamson, Alfred Molina, Brian Tyree Henry, Shinelle Azoroh, Byron Mann, April Grace, Omar Leyva, Sarkis Ninos, Ray Barnes.

The concept of Time travel is one that is not new to film audiences, by its very nature it allows us to ask what if?, it permits the cinematic voyeur to believe they can find a way to change a traumatic event into one of benign occasion, and yet for some unfathomable reason, there are those that still find way to build up a story which revolves around the novel way in which it is applied, to make the situation one of consequence and incident, and turn it on its head and deliver a tame, if not submissive, ending.

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

Playing With Fire. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10

Cast: John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo, Brianna Hilderbrand, Dennis Haysbert, Judy Greer, Tyler Mane, Paul Potts, Christian Convery, Finlay Rose Slater.

You can create great drama out of a crisis, you can get the point across of how vital the emergency services are in an insightful way, and you can also give the audience pleasure in seeing how brave and dedicated people react to moments that are away from the front line, the off duty moments, the private instances in which the guard is allowed to briefly be put down, yet to make a full feature comedy, one that has three great supporting actors to whom the genre is engrained, widely misses the mark of what should pass for idea, the presence of the comedic style.

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(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Primal. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Nicholas Cage, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durrand, Jeremy Nazario, LaMonica Garrett, Michael Imperioli, Isaac Santiago, Braulio Castillo Hijo, Tommy Walker, Sewell Whitney, Leon Andrew Joseph, Sebastian Vasquez, John Lewis, Rey Hernandez, Drake Shannon, Jaime Irizarry, Daniel Salinas Gonzalez, Pablo Tufino, Lunarena Del Fresno, Brian Tester, Juan C. Defendini.

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

The Goldfinch. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Willa Fitzgerald, Finn Wolfhard, Aneurin Barnard, Ashleigh Cummings, Aimee Laurence, Robert Joy, Boyd Gaines, Carley Connors, Hailey Wist, Denis O’Hare.

Obsession is often born out of desire to recapture something that was once lost, something precious that Time and circumstances dictated that we have taken, robbed, from us. We have it within us to use the idea of want as an excuse to see a painting, a book, a person, and wish to see it our purpose to own it or them, that we seek out the beautiful because we somehow believe it completes us, or at least makes us look different in the eyes of others as they see us with the object of our fascination and that of our preoccupation.

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

Luce. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Norbert Leo Butz, Andrea Bang, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Astro, Omar Shariff Brunson Jr., Noah Gaynor, Amanda Troyer, Christopher Mann, Hannah Cabell, Liza J. Bennett.

The relationship between teacher and student is one that is precariously balanced, too much expectation and it can damage the social standing of the pupil in question, the precious psyche that comes from peer pressure as they grow to resent the one seemingly being favoured; too little input and the feeling of unworthiness hits home like a hammer on wood, the splinters and cracks are there forever.

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

The Wolf Hour. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Brennan Brown, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen, Jeremy Bobb, Justin Clarke, Maritza Veer, Angel Christian Roman, Pedro Hollywood, Ohene Cornelius, Richard Bird, Heinley Gaspard, John Palacio, Sean Pilz.

The room of one’s own, where you can think, surrender to the words and meanings in your head without any disturbance, where life is about serenity and peace, can also become the chamber where the demons lay in wait, where they conceive moments where the writer has no choice but to surrender, to withdraw and retreat to a place where they have no room, all they have is memories, all they have is fear and regret.

The Wolf Hour. Film Review. full post

(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Joana Ribeiro, Olga Kurylenko, Jose Luis Ferrer, Ismael Fritschi, Juan Lopez-Tagle, William Miller, Will Keen, Jason Watkins, Paloma Bloyd, Oscar Jaenda, Sonia Franco, Jose Aser Gimenez, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Viveka Rytzner, Alberto Jo Lee, Bruno Sevilla, Stellan Skarsgard, Olga Kurylenko, Jordi Molla, Jorge Calvo, Juan Machin, Inma Navarro.

If you could attain immortality for effort and striving through the minefield of adversity, then Terry Gilliam, quite rightly, will live forever.

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(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Waiting For Anya. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jean Reno, Anjelica Huston, Thomas Kretschmann, Noah Schnapp, Frederick Schmidt, Tomas Lemarquis, Sadie Frost, Gilles Marini, Nicholas Rowe, Josephine de La Baume, Elsa Zylberstein, Urs Rechn, William Abadie, Declan Cole, Jean-Francois Balmer, Michael Morpurgo, Raj Awasti, Lukas Sauer, Dolma Raisson, Enola Izquierdo Cicuendez, Kevin Kain, Mathys Gallet-Lartigue, Steffen Wild, Amandine Rose, Laurent Pedebernard.

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

Ana. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Andy Garcia, Dafne Keen, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Luna Lauren Velez, Ramon Franco, Aris Mejais, Aurerlio Lima, Jesus Gomez, Maria Coral Otero Soto, Alexon Duprey, Leonardo Castro, Ketty McDougall, Valeria Pomales, Andrea Figarella, Fernelis Reyes, Jonathan Dwayne, Juan Pablo Diaz.

History has for so long been built up from the position of what certain events have meant to people of a certain social standing, any disaster that occurs, there is a story to be told, however far too often the narrative is delivered in a way that the aspirations of script writers, directors and audiences identify with the idea of the more heroic, the more film friendly perspective which does not allow for any type of an underclass to be shown as anything other than shifty, untrustworthy, and taking advantage of the situation for their own good.

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(521 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Charlie’s Angels. (2019). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska, Elizabeth Banks, Patrick Stewart, Djimon Hounsou, Sam Clafin, Jonathan Tucker, Nat Faxon, Chris Pang, Luis Gerado Mendez, Noah Centineo, David Schutter, Hannah Hoekstra, Jane Chirwa, Emre Kentmenoglu, Murali Perumal, Sebastian Kroehnert, Franz Xaver Zach, Andreas Schroders, Marie-Lou Sellam, Batur Belirdi, Anna Drexler, Jacqueline Smith.

Charlie’s Angels. (2019). Film Review. full post

(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)