Elinor Randle jogs down London Road with the effortless nature that makes you wonder if she wasn’t so immersed and integral to Liverpool theatre, would she have been one of Britain’s great Olympic hopes in a long distance stamina event. That energy, the raw endurance has certainly seen her through show after show and with Tmesis Theatre, those shows just get more and more endearing and offer something scintillatingly unique to the Liverpool culture scene.
Tag Archives: Liverpool
Into The Woods, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Johnny Depp, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone, MacKenzie Mauzy, Billy Magnussen, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch, Annette Crosbie, Joanna Riding, Frances de la Tour, Richard Glover, Simon Russell Beale.
Foxcatcher, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Michael Hall, Guy Boyd, Brett Rice, Francis J. Murphy III, Jane Mowder, David Bennett, Lee Perkins, Daniel Hilt.
Making a film out of sport can be as hit or miss as putting a blindfolded 15 year old goalkeeper up against Lional Messi in the World Cup Final in a best of five penalties on the basis that he once saved a penalty in a school yard against the doddery old headmaster. Sometimes promise never, ever matches reality.
The Theory of Everything, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Harry Lloyd, David Thewlis, Maxine Peake, Simon McBurney, Emily Watson, Guy Oliver-Watts, Lucy Chappell, Charlotte Hope, Abigail Cruttenden, Christian McKay, Adam Godley, Alice Orr-Ewing, Thomas Morrison, Michael Marcus, Nicola Sloane, Nicholas Gerard-Martin, Brett Brown, Anthony Skimshire, Eileen Davies, Simon Chandler, Georg Nikoloff, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry, Finlay Wright-Stephens, Gruffudd Glyn, Paul Longley, Enzo Cilenti.
Birdman, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Andrea Risborough, Zach Galifianakis, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Shamos, Kenny Chin, Jamahl Garrison-Lowe, Katherine O’ Sullivan, Damian Young, Keenan Shimizu, Akiro Ito, Natalie Gold, Merritt Weaver, Michael Siberry, Clark Middleton, Amy Ryan, William Youmans, Paula Pell, David Fierro, Hudson Flynn, Warren Kelly, Joel Marsh Garland.
Some films are just so perfect that the ideology behind them, the message they are meant to represent, doesn’t matter. What matters is the substance, the overall feel in which they leave the audience fulfilled and more content than being told they could eat whatever they wanted over the festive period, it wouldn’t show up as weight gained on the scales at home.
Exodus: Gods And Kings, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, Maria Valverde, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver, Hiam Abbass, Isaac Andrews, Ewen Bremner, Indira Varma, Golshifteh Farahani, Ghassan Massoud, Tara Fitzgerald, Dar Salim, Andrew Tarbet, Ken Bones, Hal Hewetson.
For the more sceptical age we find ourselves in, where the world has become more polarised in its disbelief’s as it has in its religious fervour, there is surely room for more interpretation of a contentious event than ever before.
Dumb And Dumber To. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle, Laurie Holden, Rachel Melvin, Steve Tom, Don Lake, Patricia French, Kathleen Turner, Gregory Fears, Bill Murray, Paul Blackthorne, Brady Bluhm, Lindsay Ayliffe, Eddie Shin, Tembi Locke, Atkins Estimond, Tommy Snider, Michael Yama, Nancy Yee, Grant James, Taylor St. Clair.
Some sequels are so well worth waiting for that the time elapsed between films only adds to the excitement of what will unfold as you finally take your seat. Like the Back to the Future trilogy, these films only give the audience that extra tingle as they see characters they have loved come back and take their lives on yet another tantalising journey.
Big Eyes, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, Terrance Stamp, Jon Polito, James Saito, Guido Furlani, Madeleine Arthur, Delaney Raye.
True life is a far stranger ideal than fiction could ever hope to emulate and perhaps one of the most complex of lives and relationships of the 20th Century was between the supremely talented Margaret Keane and her plagiarist, obscenely greedy and mentally abusive ex-husband, Walter Keane.
Zervas And Pepper, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
To experience something new is one of the great pleasures of life. It gets the brain going, it tingles the imagination and sets a blazing path under your feet to try and find out more. Thankfully in the 21st Century, you can make a beeline for the internet when the evening’s performance is over; visit a band’s home page and then several really handy and badly taken concert footage reels which litter the web should the desire take you, all in the name of just finding out that little bit more about the fresh new sound your ears have been exposed to.
Jack And The Beanstalk, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Dan Osbourne, Thelma Madine, Suzanne Collins, Alison Crawford, Michael Chapman, Bradley Thompson, Jack Hilton, Herbert Howe, Amy Fielding, Kyle Corrin, Olivia Horton, Stephen Nicholls, Georgia Jones, Georgia Austin, Michael Jones, Grace Felton, Chloe McKeown, Connor McCourt, Olivia Baccino, Jack Lisner.
Jack’s back in town and the giant quakes with fear in his castle in the clouds and the henchwoman knows her days are numbered…well not quite, this is after all a Pantomime and the hero isn’t exactly the courageous, quick witted type.