Category Archives: Film

Before I Go To Sleep, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Anne-Marie Duff, Dean Charles Chapman, Adam Levy, Jing Lusi, Flynn MacArthur, Charlie Gardner, Llewella Gideon, Rosie MacPherson, Hannah Blamires, Chris Cowlin, Kevin Hudson, Nick Turner.

For Christine Lucas, every day is a fresh start. Where others might resolve to begin the day anew and go out of their way in which to make other’s lives better, for Christine Lucas, each day is a torture, a realisation that she has no idea who she is or why she looks older than her suggested mind age of in her 20s.

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

The Keeper Of Lost Causes, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter, Christoffer Aro, Claus Maack Bahnsen, Marie Hammer Boda, Nynne Bojsen, Rasmus Botoft, Ernst Boye, Michael Brostrup, Kenneth Carmohn, Marie-Louise Coninck, Divya Das, Katrine Engberg, Eric Ericson, Tilde Maja Fredriksen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Betina Grove Ankerdal, Anton Jarlros Gry, Anna Sofie Helligsøe Haahr, Tobias Stæhr Hansen, Anne Bærskog Hauger, Olivia Holden, Martin Boserup, Øyvind B. Fabricius Holm, Anton Honik, Dorte Højsted, Marijana Jankovic, Morten Kirkskov, Bebiane Ivalo Kreutzmann, Henrik Larsen, Per Scheel Krüger, Lane Lind, Claes Ljungmark, Magnus Millang.

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(569 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Josh Brolin, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven, Christopher Lloyd, Jaime King, Juno Temple, Stacy Keach, Marton Csokas, Jude Ciccolella, Jude Ciccolella, Jamie Chung, Julia Garner, Lady Gaga, Alexa PenaVega, Patricia Vonne, Bart Fletcher, Alejandro Rose-Garcia, Samuel Davis, Mike Davis, Kimberly Cox, Alcides Dias.

 

Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(609 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbæk, Analeigh Tipton, Nicholas Phongpheth, Jan Oliver Schroeder, Luca Angeletti, Loïc Brabant, Pierre Grammont, Bertrand Quoniam, Pascal Loison.

Scarlett Johansson seems to be everywhere you look during the last couple of years. Not only is that a testament to the actor’s work, productivity and sheer enjoyment for cinema goers but it stands in good stead for the fact that in her latest cinematic release, Lucy, she really is everywhere. In a film which for the most part plays fast and loose with the cinema fan’s intelligence, Ms. Johansson, along with the ever reliable Morgan Freeman, the wonderful find of Amr Waked and Min-sik Choi, gives a performance that at least makes her stand out amongst the backdrop of instability and sometimes utterly ridiculous story line.

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

(544 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Hector and the Search for Happiness, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean Reno, Christopher Plummer, Tracy Ann Oberman, Jakob Davies, Ming Zhao, Chris Gauthier, Deborah Rosan, Veronica Ferres, Togo Igawa, Gabrielle Rose, Chad Willett, Barry Atsma, Rebecca Davis, Raj Lal, Marcus Shakesheff, Manny Jacinto, Tessa Jubber, Aiden Longworth, Dean Paul Gibson, Anthony Oseyemi, Sivan Raphaely, Jordan Schartner, Aaron Le, Hannah Longworth.

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(640 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

The Inbetweeners 2, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison, Tamla Kari, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Freddie Stroma, Emily Berrington, Celeste Cotton, David Schaal, Adrian Palmer, Dominique Maber, Larissa Jones, Cameron Caulfield, George Hewer, James Kearney, Kai Pantano, Alex MacQueen, Martin Trenaman, Robin Weaver, Greg Davies.

It is impossible to ignore something forever and when you find yourself laughing at some of the absolute filfth that runs through the latest big screen adventure for the four lads who make up The Inbetweeners, you either have to check that you didn’t leave a vital part of your brain in a field surrounded by cattle licking it and getting a human high from it or ,making a mental check list to watch some of the episodes again to make sure that you just weren’t being an idiot for not enjoying it in the first place.

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

God’s Pocket, Film Review. Picturehouse @F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Eddie Marsan, John Turturro, Richard Jenkins, Caleb Landry Jones, Jack O’ Connell, Bill Buell, Rebecca King, David Apicella, Bridget Barkan, Michael Drayer, Prudence Wright Holmes, Eddie McGee, Molly Price, Domenick Lombardozzi, Glenn Fleshler, Joseph Reiver, Arthur French, Dave Powers, Morgan Auld, Jonathan Gordon, Matthew Lawler, Joyce Van Patten, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Sophia Takal

 

All it would have taken is the velvet tones of Richard Burton to have been heard at the start of Philip Seymour’s penultimate film and what the audience would have realised was how encouragingly in the vein of Dylan Thomas screenwriter Alex Metcalf and John Slattery had made Peter Dexter’s novel God’s Pocket.

God’s Pocket, Film Review. Picturehouse @F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(572 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Mood Indigo, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Aïssa Maïga, Omar Sy, Charlotte Le Bon, Sacha Bourdo, Natacha Régnier, Philippe Torreton, Alain Chabat, Zinedine Soualem, Marina Rozenman, Mathieu Paulus, Frédéric Saurel, Wilfred Benaïche, Alex Raul Barrios, Kid Creole, Paul Gondry, Bobby Few, Tilly Scott Pedersen, Jérôme Coué, David Bolling.

Only somebody perhaps as good as Michael Gondry could produce a film so tender, so utterly charming, so clever and ever so slightly and brilliantly bizarre and pretentious as Mood Indigo and get away with it. A film that is so charming and clever and yet at its very heart is a piece of cinema that deals with death and the loss of idealism, nobody else surely would have the cinematic balls to do it without being locked away first.

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(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Guardians Of The Galaxy, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, David Bautista, Karen Gillan, Lee Pace, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, Benicio Del Toro, Laura Haddock, Sean Gunn, Peter Serafinowicz, Christopher Fairbank, Wyatt Oleff, Gregg Henry, Stan Lee, Melia Kreiling, Alexis Denisof.

When an American summer blockbuster film uses music by the outstanding British band 10cc in its opening sequences, then surely there can be no argument that it already grabs the attention of the viewer. Graham Gouldman’s and Eric Stewart’s timeless masterpiece only enhances the power to come as the latest tale of heroism from Marvel, The Guardians of The Galaxy, comes out to capture the summer cinema audience.

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(574 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Hercules, Film Review. Plaza Community Cinema, Crosby.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Aksel Hennie, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Reece Ritchie, Joseph Fiennes, Tobias Santelmann, Peter Mullan, Rebecca Ferguson, Issac Andrews, Joe Anderson, Stephen Peacocke, Nicholas Moss.

Where does the hero end and the legend, the myth start? Every hero after all needs a writer in which to make them seem invincible, powerful, noteworthy and compassionate to his enemies. In the modern era, every hero has his moment of downfall, his time in which he must wander into the desert of obscurity and take stock of his actions before coming back stronger than ever. In times of Greek and Roman legend, of the classical age, the Gods ruled all and a Demi-God had no such qualms about living up to anything but his name. Such is tale of Hercules and his 12 labours.

Hercules, Film Review. Plaza Community Cinema, Crosby. full post

(582 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)