Tag Archives: Michael Cera

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.

The Phoenician Scheme. Film Review. full post

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

The Lego Batman Movie, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Will Arnett, Ralph Fiennes, Zach Galifianakis, Rosario Dawson, Michael Cera, Jenny Slate, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Jermaine Clement, Ellie Kemper, Adam Devine, Kate Micucci, Seth Green, Jason Mantzoukas, Mariah Carey, Billy Dee Williams, Riki Lindhome, Eddie Izzard, Conan O’Brien, Doug Benson.

There is nothing like a good Batman film in which to soak up a few hours, Bob Kane’s gift to comic book fandom has had its ups and down, whilst enjoyable in a kitsch, clique ridden way, the 60s television and subsequent film didn’t add much to the mystique of the Dark Knight, whereas Michael Keaton’s and Christian Bale’s interpretation of the man and the myth was completely and beautifully captured by their respective directors.

The Lego Batman Movie, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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