Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Simplicity is an underrated virtue. The world today seems to beholden to the extravagant and the possessive, we have lost our way in the meaning of humble and modest, the quality of self-effacement that is endearing and one that holds together a life with a greater degree of satisfaction than the self-prophecy spouting will ever muster in an age of self-recommendation in the ethereal world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Jake Schur, Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, Leila George, Dane DeHaan, Charlie Chappell, Clint Obenchain, Chris Bylsma, Chad Danshaw, Ben Dickey, Tait Fletcher, Hawk D’Onofrio, Diana Navarrete, Samantha Zajarias, Vincent D’Onofrio, David Devereaux, Rachel Singer, Jenny Gabrielle, Keith Jardine, Adam Baldwin.
To be witness to history as it unfolds is an honour we are unaware of at the time, one perhaps made easier in today’s modern world by the wall to wall coverage provided by the media and the advent of the ever prying eye of the internet but in the past it was one of the preserve of those who actually saw it with their own two eyes and who recorded it for all to learn from.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Zoe Tapper, Ed Speleers, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Jan Bijvoet, Lukas Loughrain, Klaus Hjuler, Danny Thykaer, Robin Gott, Patrik Karlson, Thomas Chaanhing, Per Lofberg, Fredric Ollerstam, Ida Gyllensten, Oliver Dimsdale, Barbara D’Alterio, Ed Hughes.
By reducing the amount of space that an actor has to work with, somehow it can, in the right hands, intensify the mood in which is being portrayed. The wide scope that cinema affords is noble, it adds extra vision to the scene being acted out, however, by focusing the attention of a limited amount of space, on the same allowance of freedom of movement that is afforded in the theatre, suddenly a different kind of aesthetic is felt, one that can bring a greater degree of subtlety and perspective to a film that might have originally been anticipated by the viewer.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The point of survival is not to fit in and blend into the crowd, but instead to fly against the continual pattern of migration and be The Stranger who others see as visionary, the figure that radiates the sense of the unfamiliar and the outsider to whom all is possible because they are not tied to the whims of collective fashion and patented dogma.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is a time when our thoughts can travel the world before we have even blinked, no longer hidden away in drawers our demons and our angels have migrated beyond the journal and into the ether, they bathe in The Pale Blue Moonlight and revel in the heart of every cloud and silver lining casting its shadow on the world below.
For some, this embrace of the elevated form of confession could be seen as inappropriate, a sentimental token of escapism and even importance taken too far, but for Stephen Harrison it is one of genuine reflection and it is one that basks in the moonlight and the warmth of the sun in equal, beautiful, fashion.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Alexander England, Josh Gad, Kat Stewart, Diesal La Torraca, Nadia Townsend, Marshall Napier, Glenn Hazeldine, Ava Caryofyllis, Charlie Whitley, Mason Mansour, Kim Doan, Wolfgang Gledhill, Caliah Pinones, Jack Schuback, Vivienne Albany, Shia Hamby, Ashton Arokiaswamy, Gareth Davies, Jason Chong, Alan Dukes, Felix Williamson, Rahel Romahn, Stephen Peacocke.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson, James Ransone, Vincent D’Onofrio, Michael Hall D’Addario, Clare Foley, Rob Riley, Tavis Smiley, Zanet Zappala, Victoria Leigh, Cameron Ocasio, Ethan Haberfield, Danielle Kotch, Blake Mizrahi, Nicholas King, Lorraine Aceves, Rachel Konstantin.
To feel your blood run cold is not always a stipulation of a having enjoyed a good horror story, but it is arguably the closest endorsement to how a film can take you to a place that you have no intention of being part of, and yet you find you cannot draw your attention away from the unfolding feel of dread, panic and shock that is coming your way.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Mark Bonnar, Jamie Sives, Ruth Bradley, Sian Brooke, Ellie Haddington, Emun Elliott, Moyo Akande, Bill Paterson, Gregor Firth, Noof McEwan, Tom Urie, Joe Donnelly, Gordon Brown, Natali McCleary, Michael Nardone.
The guilt we carry over one seemingly random accident is normally a product of time, of all the wrongs we have committed, the slanders, the lies, the moments in which we went against the greater good and lined our own pockets with sentiment and mealy-mouthed praise. Guilt eats you alive and devours you with disturbing eagerness, and when it finally catches up with you it leaves no trace but hopeful shame rotting in the place where your soul should be.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
An equal match in any environment is one to savour, two prize fighters of equivalent prowess slugging it out in the ring, two suns casting their warmth with similar results on the planet and people below, an equal match is more than just resemblance, it is the way we appreciate the Parallel and hold it up as an example of twin virtue and excellence.
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Celebration, we arguably don’t do it enough, or if we do then we do it for the wrong reasons, we find the excuse to congratulate almost anything and we often neglect the purposeful and the driven to our own cost.
It is in the resolute and focused aim that White Little Lies took to the stage at Studio 2, not even the spectre of November’s horrendous weather, the grey skies leaving its sternly fixed gaze over the Liverpool skyline could deter Daniel Saleh and Vanessa Murray from delivering a set full of mastery, poise and the squeal of delight from the audience.