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The Last Of Us. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Kaitlyn Dever, Rutina Wesley, Danny Ramirez, Catherine O’Hara, Robert John Burke, Spencer Lord, Tati Gabrelle, Ariela Barer, Noah Lamanna, Jeffrey Wright, Alanna Ubach, Ben Ahlers, Hettienne Park, Tony Dalton, Joe Pantoliano.

The second season of The Last Of Us certainly can claim to move the action on, to expand the narrative of the downfall of humanity, but by doing so it finds itself lacking composure and the ferocity of the moment so elegantly pursued in its opening episodes.

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(465 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

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)

The Agency. Television Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Katherine Waterston, Jodie Turner-Smith, Richard Gere, John Magaro, Harriet Sansom Harris, Saura Lightfoot Leon, India Fowler, Hugh Bonneville, David Harewood, Andrew Brooke, Reza Brojerdi, Alex Reznik, Bilal Hasna, Sabrina Wu, Kurt Egyiawan, Ambreen Razia, Adam Nagaitis, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Julia Westcott-Hutton, Dominic West, Edward Holcroft, Abdullahi Islaw, Elana Saurel, Juris Zagars, Olekandr Rudynskyy, Emma Lau, Curtis Lum, Sergej Onopko, Marcin Zarzeczny, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Akpore Uzoh, Violet Verigo, Alex Jennings.

The world of espionage has become so engrained into our collective psyche that for the most part it has become background noise to the genuine concerns of real life that inspires it.

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(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

What If…?: Series Three. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Haley Atwell, Anthony Mackie, Mark Ruffalo, Teyonah Parris, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Simu Liu, Oscar Issac, Kathryn Hahn, Kumail Nanjiani, Dominic Cooper, James D’ Arcy, David Kaye, Laurence Fishbourne, Gene Farber, Kat Dennings, Seth Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Michael Rooker, Josh Brolin, Rachel House, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Dominique Thorne, Emily VanCamp, Tessa Thompson, Hailee Steinfeld, Wyatt Russell, Walton Coggins, Karen Gillan, Taika Waititi, Alison Sealy-Smith, Matt Friend, Jared Butler, Alejandro Saab, America Ferrera, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Issacs, Darin De Paul.

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(594 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Asteroid City. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Maya Hawke, Rupert Friend, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Carell, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Liv Schreiber, Aristou Meehan, Ethan Josh Lee, Sophia Lillis, Matt Dillon, Tony Revolori, Bob Balaban, Fisher Stevens, Ella Faris, Gracie Faris, Willan Faris, Deanna Dunagan, Vandi Clark, Pedro Placer, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum, Rita Wilson.

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(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

The Batman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, John Turturro, Andy Serkis, Peter Sarsgaard, Jayme Lawson, Gil Perez-Abraham, Peter McDonald, Con O’ Neill, Alex Ferns, Rupert Penry-Jones, Kosha Engler, Barry Keoghan, Sandra Dickinson.

Every generation has its Batman. Every generation around it could find fault with the portrayal, only as with the divisive nature of religion, there are too many gods in which to hoist your devotion and understanding too. Better it seems is to acknowledge that each interpretation is but a part of a whole, take what you want from it, leave good karma, and revel in perhaps one of graphic novel and comic history’s finest ever creations.

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

Westworld. Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Aaron Paul, Angela Sarafyan, Ed Harris, James Marsden, Luke Hemsworth, Ariana DeBose, Aurora Perrineau, Celeste Clark, Manny Montana, Michael Malarkey, Daniel Wu, Morningstar Angelina, Rodrigo Santoro, Fredric Lehne, Arturo Del Puerto, Alex Fernandez, Aaron Stanford, Brandon Sklenar, Jasmyn Rae, Jack Coleman, Saffron Burrows, José Zúñiga, Liza Weil, Lili Simmons, Zahn McClarnon, Cherise Boothe, Nico Galán, Hannah James, Paul-Mikél, Emily Somers, Nicole Pacent, Evan Williams, Alec Wang.

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

No Time To Die. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malik, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomi Harris, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, David Dencik, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, Lisa-Dorah Sonnet, Coline Defaud, Mathilde Bourbin, Hugh Dennis, Priyanga Burford.

Debates will rage on long after his replacement in the franchise is announced, a new favourite taking in the mantle as Ian Fleming’s suave, and sometimes brutal, hero, but as the final moments of No Time To Die roll, as the memories re-emerge of intricately drawn characters, of timely antagonists capturing the era with sublime fierceness, and of a screen hero facing arguably his own mortality, what we should arguably be recognising is that Daniel Craig as 007 is the greatest version of super British spy, James Bond, we might ever be treated to.

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(563 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Willow Shields, Sam Claflin, Elizabeth Banks, Mahershala Ali, Jena Malone, Jeffrey Wright, Paula Malcomson, Stanley Tucci, Natalie Dormer, Eugenie Bondurant, Wes Chatham, Elden Henson, Evan Ross.

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(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part One, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Natalie Dormer, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Willow Shields, Sam Claflin, Mahershala Ali, Jeffrey Wright, Paula Malcomson.

The revolution has begun, the Mockingjay stands aloft against a tyrannical elite and Katniss Everdeen is pouting firmly against all the odds and yet something does not sit well in the third film in The Hunger Games series, the bloated sense of being overfed and swollen resonates deep within the heart of Mockingjay Part One.

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