Tag Archives: Nicholas Hoult

Renfield. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Shorreh Aghdasloo, Brandon Scott Jones, Adrian Martinez, Camille Chen, Bess Rous, Jenna Kanell, Danya LaBelle, Rhonda Johnson, Christopher Matthew Cook, Michael P. Sullivan, Rosha Washington, James Moses Black, T.C. Matherne, Caroline Williams, Marcus Lewis, Derek Russo, Marvin Ross, Gabriel Rodriguez, Dave Davis, Keith Brooks, Joshua Mikel, Chloe Adona, Stephen Louis Grush, Christopher Winchester, John Cihangir, Krystal Tomlin, Camden McKinnon, William Ragsdale, Miles Doleac.

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

The Menu. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Paul Adelstein, John Leguizamo, Aimee Carrero, Reed Birney, Judith Light, Rebecca Koon, Rob Koon, Rob Yang, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Peter Grosz, Christina Brucato, Adam Aalderks, Jon Paul Allyn, Mel Fair, Cristian Gonzalez, Matthew Cornwell, John Wilkins III.

Living is a matter of taste. The varied list of options upon the great smorgasbord of life is one that we either dip in and out of, or depending on the pound on our pocket, might entice us to try a different flavour just for the experience; all this is natural, we eat our way through existence to discovery joy and hold memories firm.

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

The Great (Series Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Sacha Dhawan, Gwilym Lee, Adam Godley, Douglas Hodge, Belinda Bromilow, Ramon Tikaram, Gillian Anderson, Bayo Gbadamosi, Florence Keith-Roach, Charity Wakefield, Danusia Samal, Claira Watson Parr, Tristan Bent, Jane Mahady, Julian Barratt, Alistair Green, Timoth Walker, Louis Hynes, Ali Ariaie, Eloise Webb, Dina Al Salih, Anthony Welsh, Keon Martial-Phillip, Freddie Fox, Grace Molony, Blake Harrison, Jason Issacs, Dean Nolan.

The Great (Series Two). Television Review. full post

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

Film Review. The Current War.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Tom Holland, Katherine Waterston, Tuppence Middleton, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Macfadyen, Damien Molony, Craig Conway, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Simon Kunz, John Schwab, Amy Marston, Woody Norman, Celyn Jones, Colin Stinton, Conor MacNeil, Simon Manyonda, Joseph Balderrama, Tom Bell, Evy Frearson.

 

The race to be remembered for one’s achievements is one that normally never truly won, it can also be one that causes a degree of self-harm on the protagonist, especially when it drives them to the point of exhaustion, and the possibility of neglecting loved ones and the thoughts of the wider community.

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

X Men: Dark Phoenix. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, Alexandra Shipp, Tye Sheridan, Jodi Smit-McPhee, Kota Eberhardt, Andrew Stehlin, Scott Shepherd.

A final offering, one that should have the audience gripped, almost putty like in the hands of the producers, the directors and actors alike, after all an audience will have been waiting for this moment for a period of years, their hopes always on the verge of bursting – then the realisation sets in, the climax that you want is not what the franchise could have been, in that moment the highs and excitement that you once felt, the love and care that you showed, is gone, has departed quicker than an express train hurtling through your local station as you casually ignore the warning about standing close to the yellow line.

X Men: Dark Phoenix. Film Review. full post

(457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Tolkien. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Pam Ferris, Adrian Schiller, Colm Meaney, Owen Teale, Derek Jacobi, Craig Roberts, Harry Gilby, Laura Donnelly, Guillermo Bedward, Nia Gwynne, Kallum Tolkien, Tony Nash, Michael Bryceson, Andrew Bissell, Patrick Gibson, Anthony Boyle, Tom Glynn-Carney, James MacCallum.

Subconsciously driven by the exotic use of imagination or shaped by the events we observe, there is a tale in each of us that demands to be told, and in which regrettably few of us choose to pursue.

Tolkien. Film Review. full post

(610 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

The Favourite. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Mark Gatiss, Emma Delves, Faye Daveney, Paul Swaine, Jennifer White, LillyRose Stevens, Denise Mark, Willem Dalby, Edward Aczel, James Smith, Carolyn Saint-Pe, John Locke, Nicholas Hoult.

Favouritism is not just about what makes you stand out in the public gaze, it is the result of who fancies you, who wants you intimately, regardless of whether they declare it openly or keep it buried deep in their subconscious, a concept that is frowned upon but none the less wrapped in truth. You get asked who The Favourite is, who you want to see come out on top, and for the most part that sentiment is born out of lust, not out of cold logic.

The Favourite. Film Review. full post

(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Watership Down (2018). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, John Boyega, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Peter Capaldi, Mackenzie Crook, Anne-Marie Duff, Taron Egerton, Freddie Fox, Lee Ingleby, Miles Jupp, Daniel Kaluuya, Craig Parkinson, Daniel Rigby, Jason Watkins, Gemma Chan, James Alexander, Rosamund Pike, Andrew Walton, Olivia Colman, Lorraine Bruce, Rosie Day, Henry Goodman, Murray McArthur, Tom Wilkinson, James Faulkner, Lizzie Clarke, Rory Kinnear, Charlotte Spencer, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Peter Guinness, Sam Redford, Luke Neal.

Watership Down (2018). Television Review. full post

(509 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Deadpool 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Josh Brolin, Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Zazie Beetz, Brianna Hildebrand, Brad Pitt, Bill Skarsgård, Matt Damon, T.J.Miller, Terry Crews, Rob Delaney, Alan Tudyk, Julian Dennison, Lewis Tan, Jack Kesy, Eddie Marsan, Shioli Kutsuna, Hayley Sales, Stefan Kapicic, Karan Soni, Sala Baker, Nicholas Hoult, James McAvoy, Evan Peters, Tye Sheridan.

In the land of the sequel, the audience is normally attuned to the fact that by and large the film will be below par, sometimes disastrously with a plot that was based on profit potential, sometimes just out of plain high expectation, but the result will be the same, that like most films, the sequel is never in the same class as the original.

Deadpool 2. Film Review. full post

(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

X-Men: Apocalypse, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Oscar Isaac, Rose Byrne, Evan Peters, Josh Helman, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Lucas Till, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Hardy, Alexandra Shipp, Lana Condor, Olivia Munn, Ally Sheedy, Tómas Lemarquis, Hugh Jackman, Stan Lee.

Uncanny as it seems but The X-Men are a franchise that keeps giving, not only in their graphic novel form but in the outline and grizzled affair that is cinema. This is certainly true as the first class trilogy comes to its conclusion in the exciting and worthy X-Men: Apocalypse.

X-Men: Apocalypse, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)