Category Archives: Film

We Have Always Lived In The Castle. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Sebastian Stan, Crispin Glover, Paula Malcomson, Peter Coonan, Ian Toner, Joanne Crawford, Anna Nugent, Peter O’Meara, Luan James-Geary, Cormac Melia, Liz O’ Sullivan, Bosco Hogan, Stephen Hogan, Maria Doyle Kennedy.

A film that comes with no fanfare and preconceptions is almost always one that will have you fixated throughout, not because of its reliance on studio CGI or on the box office name that lights up the screen, but because of its simple and yet highly effective story-telling, the interest in the range of characters, and a small truth that must always be held in such circumstances, that life, for all its possibilities, is the ordinary given room to tell its tale.

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(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The Hummingbird Project. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Salem Hayek, Michael Mando, Johan Heldenbergh, Ayisha Issa, Mark Slacke, Sarah Goldberg, Frank Schorpion, Kwasi Songui, Conrad Pla, Julian Bailey, Jessica Greco, Robert Reynolds, Anna Maguire, Ryan Ali, Amada Silveria, Kaniehtiio Horn, Tyler Elliot Burke, Clara Nicholas, Bobo Vian, Igor Ovadis, Bonnie Mak, Bruce Dinsmore, Jonathan Dubsky, Anton Koval, Adam Bernett, Trinity Forrest, Nicholas Fransolet, Christian Jadah.

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

Pet Sematary. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jete Laurence, Hugo Lavoie, Lucas Lavoie, Obassa Ahmed, Alyssa Brooke Levine, Maria Herrera, Frank Schorpion, Linda E. Smith, Sonia Maria Chirila.

Fashion may come and go with ease; the popular movements soon give way to the unmistakable surge in new wave and the cycle repeats in perpetuity. It seems though, and for all the time that he has been credited as being the greatest horror writer in American history, that fashion via the medium of film and television is finally understanding just how powerful the name Stephen King is when his work is adapted with him in mind.

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

Gemini. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz, John Cho, Greta Lee, Ricki Lake, Michelle Forbes, Nelson Franklin, Reeve Carney, Jessica Parker Kennedy, James Ransone, Todd Louiso, Marianne Rendon, Juan Antonio, Abraham Lim, Gabreila Flores, Ted Stavros, Levy Tran.

The cult of celebrity is such that when an opportunity presents itself in which you can manipulate it to your own advantage and yet when found to be lying to the public, you can arrange an interview which whitewashes your sins and transgressions and the whole world will still love you. The ordinary citizen suffers under the weight of their choice and the sufferance of demonisation by their friends and loved ones, the celebrity weathers the storm and be applauded for their honesty, even in the face of murder.

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(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

November Criminals. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Ansel Elgort, Chloe Grace Moretz, David Strathairn, Catherine Keener, Terry Kinney, Cory Hadrict, Philip Ettinger, Danny Flaherty, Victor Williams, Opal Alladin, Tessa Albertson, Adrian M. Mompoint, Karina Deyko, Jared Kemp, Samuel Ray Gates, Rena Maliszewski, Pamela Lambert, Georgia Lyman, Jimi Stanton, Bruce-Robert Serafin, Tod Randolph, Celeste Oliva,Tom Kemp, Michael Christoforo, Freddie Wong.

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(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Rabid. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Laura Vandervoort, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Ted Atherton, Hanneke Talbot, Stephen Huszar, Mackenzie Gray,  Stephen McHattie, Kevin Hanchard, Heidi von Palleske, Joel Labelle, C.M. Punk, Edie Inksetter, Tristan Risk, Sylvia Soska, Jen Soska, Vanessa Jackson, Joe Bostick, Troy James, Greg Bryk, Earl Bubba McLean Jr, A. J. Mendez, Dion Karas, Amanda Zhou, Lily Gao.

Disease is all the rage, especially the ones that brings human beings to the level of nothing more of the unthinking and savage, the brutal and the one that is driven by hunger. Disease is the great leveller and as what is on screen can mimic the daily survival of society, it seems only fair that cinema constantly finds new ways to remind the viewer of the fragility of human existence.

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

Radio Flash. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Brighton Sharbino, Dominic Monaghan, Will Patton, Fionnula Flanagan, Miles Anderson, Michael Filipowich, Kyle Collin, Sean Cook, Arden Myrin, Amire Abdullah, Max Adler, Jerry Basham, Lance Valentine Butler, Juli Erickson, Mike Harris.

You do have wonder what it takes to get a film noticed, that there will always be enough advertising and budget allocation to the films that the box office is assured of selling out and yet somehow in the gold mines of celluloid and cinematic constant success, there will be that one diamond that reflects unknowing wealth with greater passion than all the ingots found in the endless stream.

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

Vault. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Theo Rossi, Clive Standen, Samira Wiley, Chazz Palminteri, Don Johnson, William Forsythe, Sean Ringgold, Chuck Zito, Vincent Pastore, Eric Lutes, Burt Young, Antonio Cupo, Dorothy Lyman, John Fiore, Ken Baltin, Gillian Williams, Armen Garo, Claudio Orefice, Lala Kent, German Figueroa, Michael Zuccola, Danielle Guldin, Anthony Paulucci, Kevin DeCristofano, Tony V, Johnny Cicco, Andrew Divoff, Nick Principe, Bob Dio.

There is arguably a certain fascination with films that are connected to the Mafia which doesn’t appeal to everyone, not so much divisive, but more of a way of life that doesn’t have any relationship with anyone outside of Italy, certain parts of the United States of America and those interested in the effects of organised crime.

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

Can You Ever Forgive Me. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Jane Curtin, Gregory Korostishevsky, Stephen Spinella, Christian Navarro, Pun Bandhu, Erik LaRay Harvey, Brandon Scott Jones, Shae D’lyn, Rosal Colon, Anna Deavere Smith, Marc Evan Jackson, Marcella Lowery, Roberta Wallach, Tina Benko, Sandy Rosenberg, Kevin Carolan, Ben Rauch, Ethel Fisher, Chris Lamberth, Joanna Adler, Mary B. McCann, Michael Laurence, Michael Cyril Crieighton, Alice Kremelberg, Moises Acevedo, Lucy DeVito, Josh Evans, Ricky Garcia, Charlotte Mary Wen, Marcus Choi, Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Tim Cummings.

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

Rust Creek. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Sean O’Bryan, Micah Hauptman, Daniel R. Hill, Jeremy Glazer, John Marshall Jones, Jake Kidwell, Virginia Schneider, Denise Dal Vera, Alexandra Jensen, Stu Pollard.

There are some films which unfortunately have the same effect on the soul as eating a dozen creme filled profiteroles has on the waist line, the desire for what you believe is substantial, soon leaves you feeling bloated, unsatisfied and underwhelmed, leaving you finally scratching your head at the thought of having to deal with the aftermath, the thought of pondering over what to make of the film which promised so much, but in the end left you battling cinematic fatigue.

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(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)