Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King, Brian Dare.
Laudable, proof on intent, utilising the very best aspects of humanity placed in a terrible situation where the audience understands the race against time and Armageddon, and yet 65, despite the dinosaur and meteor CGI, finds itself in the realm of the big feature film excess that falls unfortunately under the weight of expectation.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Kelly Reilly, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Riccardo Scamarcio, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Amir El-Masry, Ferando Piloni, Lorenzo Acquaviva, David Menkin, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Rowen Robinson, Emma Laird, Vanessa Ifediora, Kyle Allen, Ali Khan, Esther Rae Tillotson, Winnie Soldi.
Agatha Christie is the queen of crime, but even those of literary royal blood must admit that there is a period of time in their career that just doesn’t align itself to any other; and the longer the reign, the more likely it is to be at the final curtain that the illumination starts to fade; literature aping real life as the spell can be, hopefully not broken, but perhaps witnessed for what it is; a last hurrah of a genius mind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Grint, Abby Quinn, Kristen Cui, McKenna Kerrigan, Ian Merrill Peakes, Denise Nakano, Rose Luardo, Billy Vargus, Satomi Hofmann, Kevin Leung, Lee Avant, Odera Adimorah, Kat Murphy, Kittson O’Neill, Lya Yanne, M. Night Shyamalan, Clare Louise Frost, Hanna Gaffney, Monica Fleurette, Saria Chen.
M Night Shyamalan’s career has been one of extraordinary highs, and even when the film he is connected with has only found an average basis with the crowds, it seems to be one that still finds a way to resonate with the unnerving and the memory of what can leave the audience and watcher alike with a trepidation of the twist that comes in the final moment.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Courtey Cox, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Hayden Panettiere, Mason Gooding, Roger Jackson, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Champion, Josh Segarra, Liana Liberato, Devyn Nekoda, Skeet Ulrich, Tony Revolori, Samara Weaving.
Just when you think that the Scream franchise cannot go any bigger, cannot pull you in anymore, Scream VI comes along and blows your mind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Elena Kampouris, Doran Bell, Agam Darshi, Alix Villaret, Fletcher Donovan, Sara Sampaio, Rachelle Goulding, Caitlin Stryker, C.J. Perry Barnyashev, Claire Friesen, Stephen Lobo, Sean Yves Lessard, Sari Mercer, Chezca Vega, Bradley Stryker, Stuart James, Steve Weller, Miranda Edwards.
A.I. is the technology to which will arguably divide people’s opinions more than almost anything in the very near future; and whilst the full implication is not yet realised on how we accommodate the rise of the machine in daily life, whether it will aid us or hinder, be a positive or herald the destruction of humanity as we perceive it, can no longer be swept aside as a discussion.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, Spencer Wilding, Will Irvine, Nicholas Blane, Bryan Larkin, Sarah Amankwah, Colin Carnegie, Georgia Landers, Sophia Nell Huntley, Clayton Grover, Bradley Cooper, Hayley-Marie Axe.
Dungeons & Dragons is a phenomenon of our time, more than a game, it is an icon, an industry masquerading as a competitive pastime. It is equally adored and derided, but there is no doubting the seriousness in which those who immerse themselves into the fortunes and constructed tales take as they don the imagination and furnish the creativity, and to those who watch from the sidelines, they cannot help themselves but wish to join in.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes, Jason Clarke, Florence Pugh, Dane DeHaan, Kurt Koehler, Tony Goldwyn, John Gowans, Macon Blair, James D’Arcy, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Groener, Gregory Jbara, Ted King, Tim DeKay, Steven Houska, Tom Conti, David Krumholtz, Matthais Schweighöfer, Josh Hartnett, Alex Wolff, Josh Zuckerman, Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Hap Lawrence, Matthew Modine, Louise Lombard, Matt Damon, Jack Quaid, David Dastmaichian.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Frederick Schmidt, Mariela Garriga, Cary Elwes, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma.
You don’t escape from the rage of a volcano by standing still, you cannot avoid the avalanche by staring deep into the bleak white void as it hurtles towards you; and you don’t get to ignore the latest offering from the Mission Impossible franchise by declaring that it doesn’t appeal as an action film just because it is fronted by Tom Cruise.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, Sydney Chandler, Kate Berlant, Asif Ali, Douglas Smith, Timothy Simons, Ari’el Stachel, Steve Berg, Daisy Sudeikis, Marcello Reves, Dita Von Teese.
Wouldn’t we all like to be happy and carefree, to see the world through the lens of contentment and satisfaction. The world at ease is attainable, but would we, like the passive Eloi that were food for the Morlocks in The Time Machine, soon be fodder for someone else appetite, not necessarily our flesh being consumed, but our minds, our souls, being stripped of anything that was fiercely individual, being human.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Shailene Woodley. Ben Mendelsohn, Jovan Adepo, Ralph Ineson, Richard Zeman, Dusan Dukic, Jason Cavalier, Nick Walker, Darcy Laurie, Mark Camacho, Frank Schorpion, Marcello Bezina, Dawn Lambing, Martyne Musau, Michael Cram, Chip Chuipka, Heidi Foss, Michael Dozier, Mark Anthony Krupa, Rosemary Dunsmore, Lesley Pahl.
The thought is usually unsaid, the lips not wishing or willing to suggest or insist the terrible truth, that the lines between law and order are often blurred, clouded by the fact that the ones defending the thin blue line are as often or not just as capable of being the ones to whom mayhem and murder are just as appealing a prospect.