Tag Archives: F. Murray Abraham

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)

White House Plumbers. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Lena Hedley, Domhnall Gleeson, Kim Coates, Toby Huss, Liam James, Tony Plane, Yul Vasque, Zoe Levin, Tre Ryder, Nelson Ascencio, Judy Greer, Ike Barinholtz, Kiernan Shipka, Alexis Valdés, Julie Hays, Peter Mitchell, Kisha Barr, F. Murray Abraham, John Carroll Lynch, David Krumholtz, Kathleen Turner, Gary Cole, Peter Serafinowicz.

You need separate your feelings and your emotions when watching the five-part miniseries, White House Plumbers, for the sense of disbelief will be all consuming as the understanding of just how perilously close the United States of America came to be under a tyranny, and how deliriously the ineptness of certain individuals saved the country from being a danger to itself.

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

Moon Knight. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy, F. Murray Abraham, David Ganly, Ann Akinjiran, Karim El Hakim, Michael Benjamin Hernandez, Shaun Scott, Antonia Salib, Khalid Abdalla, Lucy Thackeray, Fernanda Andrada, Rey Lucas.

An almost unceasing roster of characters to draw from, an embarrassment of riches, a plethora of costumed superheroes in which to bring to the screen, and yet one of the most underrated might never have seen the light beyond the pages of the graphic novel had it not been for the persistence of Time and the pulling power of Disney and Marvel combined.

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(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Kit Harrington, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, F. Murray Abraham, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Craig ferguson, Justin Rupple, A.J. Kane.

It never ceases to amaze just how animation can make you appreciate all that you may have once feared, how it can illuminate a moment into clarity in such a way that its more artistically speaking and human face can ever think of achieving.

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(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Robin Hood (2018). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, Jamie Dornan, Tim Minchin, Paul Anderson, F. Murray Abraham, Ian Peck, Cornelius Booth, Kane Headley-Cummings, Scott Greenan, Lara Rossi, Kevin Griffiths, Bjorn Bengtsson, Yasen Atour, Nick Wittman, Josh Herdman.

When you re-imagine the tale, there will always be arrows of derision ready to take aim and fire off volleys of shots of criticism; tampering with a classic is for some beyond acceptable, the story should be sacrosanct, etched in stone and forever told in a way that respects the past, as much as it pays esteem to our memory of it.

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(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

The Grand Budapest Hotel, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Tilda Swinton, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Defoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law,Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartman, Léa Seydoux, Tom Wilkinson.

Every story requires an author, the voice of reason, doubt, uncertainty, humour and charm in which capture every single element possible to make the listener pin back their ears and quietly contemplate what the creator is actually telling them. If every story expects a story teller then Wes Anderson should be the one to be involved at every point of the tale’s conception.

The Grand Budapest Hotel, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool. full post

(522 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Inside Llewyn Davis, Film Review. FACT Cinema.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake, F. Murray Abraham, Stark Sands, Jeanine Serralles, Adam Driver, Ethan Phillips, Alex Karpovsky, Max Casella, Benjamin Pike.

Inside Llewyn Davis, Film Review. FACT Cinema. full post

(667 words, estimated 2:40 mins reading time)