Tag Archives: Benicio Del Toro

The Phoenician Scheme. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Alex Jennings, Jason Watkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johanson, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Richard Ayoade, Riz Ahmed, Willem Defoe, F. Murray Abraham, Bill Murray, Donald Sumpter, Rupert Friend, Mathieu Amalric.

What it is to live in the mind of Wes Anderson, what it would be as a writer to sample the sense of creativity of the absurdly connective narrative and see it as a critique of the overblown dramas that use verbal interchange as a mission to dull the intellect of the masses as they substitute shock value for false cool; for only in the way that Mr. Anderson portrays the ordinary and adds beautifully entrancing possibility of language does truth show its true colours in the characters and logic of the piece.

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(388 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Dora And The Lost City Of Gold. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Isabela Merced, Benicio Del Toro, Eva Longoria, Michael Pena, Joey Viera, Pia Miller, Jeff Wahlberg, Adriana Barraza, Nicholas Coombe, Natasa Ristic, Christopher Kirby, Temuera Morrison, Christopher Rawlins, Eugenio Derbez, Isela Vega, Danny Trejo. 

One of the moments you know you have become an adult is when you can sit through what is being billed as a film for young adults, the teenage market and find that not only have enjoyed the absolute sense of fun that was intended, but that you can find the sense of the pearls of wisdom dispensed enlightening, rather than sneering at them through misguided eyes.

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

Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Domhnall Gleeson, Gwendoline Christie, Carrie Fisher, Billie Lourd, Andy Serkis, Oscar Issac, Laura Dern, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kelly Marie-Tran, Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Daniels, Warwick Davies, Frank Oz, Jimmy Vee, Joonas Suotamo, Adrian Edmondson, Mark Lewis Jones, Hermoine Corfield.

You can’t keep a good franchise down; lord knows they tried with the release of the much maligned episodes one and two of the Star Wars saga, but no matter what, eventually the licence to entertain and print money, sell merchandise and hopefully the true point of making a good story realised on screen will see the series continue.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Film Review. full post

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

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)

Inherent Vice, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Joanna Newsom, Katherine Waterston, Josh Brolin, Reece Witherspoon,  Jordan Christian Hearn, Taylor Bonin, Jeannie Berlin, Eric Roberts, Serena Scott Thomas, Maya Rudolph, Martin Dew, Michael Kenneth Williams, Hong Chau, Shannon Collis, Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson, Martin Short, Sasha Pieterse.

 

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

(547 words, estimated 2:11 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.

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

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