Category Archives: Film

The Aeronauts. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Phoebe Fox, Anna Reid, Tim McInnerny, Vincent Perez, Robert Glenister, Tom Courtney, Rebecca Front, Kamil Lemieszewski, Gianni Calchetti, Lewin Lloyd, Julian Ferro, Thomas Arnold, Andy Mihalache.

If you are terrified of heights then then to be trapped in a hot air balloon is arguably the worst place you can imagine to be, or maybe as the one in control of its descent, on top of the structure trying to force it down by releasing the mechanism that will get you to ground safely.

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(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Doctor Sleep. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Carel Struycken, Jacob Tremblay, Emily Alyn Lind, Zahn McClarnon, Cliff Curtis, Bruce Greenwood, Chelsea Talmadge, Alex Essoe, Carl Lumbly, Joclin Donahue, Catherine Parker, Seleena Anduze, Kyliegh Curran, Robert Longstreet, Nicholas Pryor, Bethany Anne Lind, Kaitlyn McCormick, Marc Farley, Molly Jackson, Kk Heim, Zachary Momoh, Roger Dale Floyd, Shane Brady.

 

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(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Terminator: Dark Fate. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis, Natalie Reyes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Gabriel Luna, Tom Hopper, Cassandra Starr, Brett Azar, Diego Boneta, Tabata Cerezo, Steven Cree, Pete Ploszek, Enrique Arce, Mario de la Rosa, Christine Horn, Samantha Coughlan, Rochelle Neil, Stephanie Gil, Claudia Trujillo, Fraser James, Arlette Torres, Kacy Owens.

A good franchise never knows when to quit, there is always another element to the story, another piece to the puzzle that can be stretched out to its limit and leave the dedicated and the devoted hanging on the hope of another instalment to come.

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

The Addams Family. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dog, Bette Midler, Allison Janney, Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, Tituss Burgess, Jenifer Lewis, Elsie Fisher, Conrad Vernon, Aimee Garcia, Scott Underwood, Mikey Madison, Chelsea Frei, Pom Klementieff, Deven Green, Maggie Wheeler, Harland Williams.

 

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

Judy. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Renee Zellwegar, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Gemma-Leah Deveraux, Michael Gambon, Bella Ramsey, Andy Nyman, Gaia Weiss, Philippe Spall, Fenella Woolgar, Royce Pierreson, Phil Dunster, Darci Shaw, Diana Alexandra Pocol, John Dagleish, Natasha Powell, Lucy Russell, Tom Durant Pritchard, Tim Ahern.

Somewhere over the rainbow remains a memory of a star, an icon whose greatest screen role defined the age, of childhood and the abuse of power reigned over them by studios and their owners, whose character in the Wizard of Oz became a by word for the acceptance of others, and to whom a voice was given that few have been able to touch since.

Judy. Film Review. full post

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

Official Secrets. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Katherine Kelly, Indira Varma, MyAnna Buring, Kenneth Cranham, Jack Farthing, Tasmin Grieg, Hattie Morahan, Jeremy Northam, Conleith Hill, Hanako Footman, Shaun Dooley, Monica Dolan, Chris Larkin, Ray Panthaki, Clive Francis, Peter Guinness, John Heffernan, Angus Wright, Adam Bakri.

 

A Government not afraid of the possibility of its people rebelling against them is one that surely does not exist, for the very nature of Government is to lie through its teeth and sow discord under the banner of freedom. It is up to the individual of how much they can stomach, what lies they are willing to let stand and which ones they need to follow closely in the hope that they will be exposed, and which ones they might openly defy.

Official Secrets. Film Review. full post

(533 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Zombieland: Double Tap. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Zoey Deutch, Avan Jogia, Rosario Dawson, Luke Wilson, Thomas Middleditch, Victoria Hall, Victor Riveria.

Zombies are big business, the walking dead have a licence to print money, they are a psychologists dream of interpretation and they have the unnerving ability to project a fear into us that perhaps goes beyond that of any real plague we might determine being set loose on the world; in short, zombies, it seems, can do no wrong, especially for television and certainly not for cinema.

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

Joker. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Marc Maron, Frances Conroy, Shae Whigham, Brett Cullen, Douglas Hodge, Dante Pereira-Olson, Bill Camp, Glenn Fleshler, Josh Pais.

If comedy has become a matter for the subjective disguised as hate or even animosity that has been disguised by the mask of envy then so has all art forms, from the video game, to the novel and onwards to the relative study of looking back at an old master’s work of art, for some now is not a means of expression but a chance to decry and even destroy something without really looking at it with an eye of understanding. It is in this that the joke perhaps has become a by-word for abuse, and that the Joker is nothing more than evil dressed up in outlandish rags and a symbol of modern sickness.

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(739 words, estimated 2:57 mins reading time)

Roger Waters: Us And Them. Film Review.

Liverpool sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The arena show is one where the Rock gig transforms into the spectacular, and if done with a sense of thought can be the point where an audiences’ eyes are collectively opened. Whilst a performance in a smaller venue will always feel intimate, an experience that is captured in the close up and detail, the arena show delves into the psyche as one might feel if they were so inclined to look upon as comparable to the preacher engaging with the masses, every nuance and word delivered greeted with a cry of hallelujah and amen.

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

Good Boys. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon, Molly Gordon, Midori Francis, Izaac Wang, Millie Davis, Josh Caras, Will Forte, Mariessa Portlance, Lil Rel Howery, Retta, Michaela Watkins, Stephen Merchant, Christian Darrel Scott, Macie Juiles, Chance Hurstfield, Enid-Raye Adams, Craig Haas, Benita Ha, Alexander Calvert.

It is in the naivety and innocence of the young that we perhaps see the wisdom to come, and nothing really touches the experience of the one to whom youthful embarrassment and exuberance has been visited upon, for in that moment comes learning, of realisation that you cannot remain a child, or even a teenager, forever.

Good Boys. Film Review. full post

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