Category Archives: Film

Sicario, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, Daniel Kaluuya, Julio Cedillo, Jon Bernthal, Bernardo P. Saracino, Kim Larrichio, Eb Lottimer.

Who is the pawn in the biggest game when it comes to trafficking on the borders of the United States of America and Mexico? Arguably the richest country on Earth per capita and one of the poorest sitting side by side, the inequality between the two countries perhaps never really equalled out going back to the war between the two countries in which had land not been lost and ceded to the United States, all that money that flowed from the discovery of oil would have seen the economies of the two countries wildly different as the 21st Century progressed.

Sicario, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Macbeth, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Elizabeth Debicki, Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris, David Thewlis, Jack Reynor, Paddy Considine, David Hayman, Lynn Kennedy, Maurice Roëves, Seylan Baxter, James Harkness, Roy Sampson.

There are moments when going to the cinema should be a true joy to behold. The merging of both the cinematic experience and theatre portrayed as a guiding light of how to bring out the very best from arguably England’s greatest playwright.

Macbeth, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

The Martian, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kirsten Wigg, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Mackenzie Davis, Donald Glover, Chen Shu.

If you want epic adventure you really only have call upon Ridley Scott and he will deliver you a story of such rich ambition and heroism, such is the outer core of the autumn blockbuster The Martian.

The Martian, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Roger Waters The Wall, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There seems to be a never ending way to experience The Wall and yet each time the fan or the casual amateur psychologist reaches in, placing their trust and their heart to the album’s creator, Roger Waters, it never seems to do anything but drain with beautiful emotion, to dig deep down into the very core of human experience, just exactly what the album, the songs and the essence of what life is.

Roger Waters The Wall, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Life, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ron White, Kasey Lea, Eve Crawford, Michael Therriault, Peter Lucas, Lauren Gallagher, Jack Fulton, Kristen Hager, Barbara Gordon, Reg Dreger, Kristian Bruun.

There are photographs that are so iconic, so powerful in their delivery that they not only capture a slice of what could be considered symbolic, but they also define a generation by its message and the image they portray.

Life, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(549 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Everest, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jason Clarke, Emily Watson, Sam Worthington, Josh Brolin, Kiera Knightley, Justin Salinger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robin Wright, Mia Goth, Stormur Jón Kormákur Baltasarsson, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Clive Standen, Vanessa Kirby, John Hawkes, Elizabeth Debecki, Naoki Mori, Michael Kelly, Tim Dantay, Todd Boyce, Mark Derwin, Martin Henderson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Charlotte Bøving, Thomas M. Wright, Amy Schindler, Chris Reilly, Ang Phula Sherpa, Pemba Sherpa.

There will always be, one hopes, adventurers, people with spirit and explorers, pioneers, people who see the mountain in whatever shape and form it takes and relish the challenge of attaining their goal – even it means personal loss and possible risking of life; for without that risk, humanity becomes staid and placid.

Everest, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(551 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

A Walk In The Woods, Film Review. Picturehouse@ F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal, R.K. Harris, Randall Newsome, Hayley Lovitt, Susan McPhail, John Kap, Alex Van.

Bill Bryson is arguably one of the leading exponents of dramatic and comedic travel writing in the last 50 years, his books have sold millions and they are told as if being let in on series of amusing anecdotes, they veer from the dull and professionally accurate descriptions of a life with a map book in one hand and the inevitable pseudo-snobbish that comes with some of the craft and instead what they become is essential stories of a life well travelled. This is never more perfect than in his best- selling book A Walk In The Woods.

A Walk In The Woods, Film Review. Picturehouse@ F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Irrational Man, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Betsy Aidem, Ethan Philips, Jamie Buckley, Paula Plum, Nancy Giles, Susan Pourfar, Tom Kemp.

Woody Allen has the most innate ability to bring the peculiarities of death, of outraged calculated murder and righteous despair to any party and then show them to be the most perfect illusions and delusions of the mind. It is a rare quality to showcase an individual and their complete neurosis and give them hope and macabre playfulness.

Irrational Man, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Legend, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Paul Bettany, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Colin Morgan, Paul Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Chazz Palminteri, Tara Fitzgerald, Kevin McNally, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Sam Hoare, Shane Attwooll, Samantha Pearl, Jane Wood, John Sessions.

 

There was nothing glamorous about the Krays, not in the strictest sense of the word and yet they held the East End of London in such a thrall that glamour took on a completely different meaning. It was physical allure of charm personified to an area of London that had been treated for too long as the personal plaything of the destructive and warped; so why should the Swinging Sixties be any different.

Legend, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

American Ultra. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, Walton Coggins, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman, Tony Hale, Stuart Greer, Michael Papajohn.

There are films that will come to the cinema, present themselves as being slightly off beat and which despite the overwhelming reasons why you shouldn’t like them, you can’t help but be drawn to their physical being. The same goes with some actors, you are unsure to why they have risen so highly up the scale of Box office requirements but you cannot help but like their performances on screen. When these two states of mind mix and merge, that feeling is intensified to the point where you really are not surprised if the sky turns a shade of purple and a lottery win is on the cards.

American Ultra. Film Review. full post

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