Tag Archives: Laura Haddock

Downton Abbey. A New Era. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Allen Leach, Tuppence Middleton, Samantha Bond, Imelda Staunton, Laura Carmichael, Harry Hadden-Paton, Dougles Reith, Phyllis Logan, Jim Carter, Kevin Doyle, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Brendan Coyle, Lesley Nicol, Sophie McShera, Michael Fox, Raquel Cassidy, Charlie Watson, Bibi Burr, Olive Burr, Eva Samms, Karina Samms, Fifi Hart. Oliver Barker, Zac Barker, Archer Robins, Sue Johnston, Jonathan Coy, Huh Dancy, Paul Copley, Laura Haddock, Dominic West, Jonathan Zaccai, Nathalie Baye, Alex Skarbek, Oliver Ciaverie, David Oliver Fischer, Alex Macqueen.

The Capture. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Holliday Grainger, Callum Turner, Laura Haddock, Ben Miles, Barry Ward, Ginny Holder, Cavan Clerkin, Ron Perlman, Famke Janssen, Alexander Forsyth, Nigel Lindsay, Ian Pirie, Lia Williams, Paul Ritter, Daisy Waterstone.

The worn out old maxim associated with state surveillance that goes “If you don’t do anything wrong then you have nothing to be concerned about”, has been proven to be a falsehood that has been adopted by the untrustworthy and the cynical on both sides of the political spectrum as absolute mantra, a modern hymn in which to beat the masses into a behaviour pattern to which the instruments and threats of damnation could now only look upon as truly effective and a one true god.

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, Sean Gunn, Laura Haddock.

All the fun of the original but with added family angst, if you are going to describe Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume Two in any way that resembles a nutshell then you can only go by that, a great family film that has kept Marvel Studios firmly in the top racoon place when it comes to portraying superheroes on film and that D.C. has a long way to go.

The Musketeers, The Queen’s Diamonds. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Alexandra Dowling, Rupert Everett, Hugo Speer, Paul McGann, Matthew McNulty, Sarah Smart, James Callis, Matt Stokoe, Laura Haddock, Olivia Poulet, Thalissa Teixeira, Allan Corduner, Harriet Thorpe, Lucie Cerna, Barbora Cerna, Monika Timkova, David Pearse, Michael Peavoy.

Ripper Street: The Incontrovertible Truth. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, David Wilmot, Clive Russell, Josh O’ Connor, Laura Haddock, Lydia Wilson, Charles Edwards, Daniel Kendrick, Richard Goulding, Alex Cusack

In some respects not much has changed in Whitechapel in 120 years, certainly not where the idea of ghoulish tourism is concerned. Where today the area benefits from the daily Jack the Ripper tours and the sightseers wanting to take on the mantle of roving armchair detective in London’s, even the U.K.’s, more interesting area and immersing themselves into the history of arguably the most notorious murderers to stalk the Earth, it still feels as though it is erring towards the macabre spectacle.

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.