Tag Archives: Olivia Cooke

The Secret Of Crickley Hall. B.B.C. Television. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall, David Warner, Sarah Smart, Iain De Caestecker, Olivia Cooke, Maise Williams, Bill Milner, Kian Parsiani, Pixie Davies.

It seems odd that the premier 20th century British horror writer, James Herbert, has never had many adaptations of his copious amount and in most cases prestigious work. What has been filmed has been woeful at best and an affront to British Horror at its seedy worst. For the B.B.C. to pick up the option to one of the great writer’s latter works, the sadistic and suspenseful The Secret of Crickley Hall is a coup for both writer and television viewer.

The Secret Of Crickley Hall. B.B.C. Television. Television Review. full post

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

The Secret Of Crickley Hall. Part Two. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall, David Warner, Sarah Smart, Iain DeCaestecker, Olivia Cooke, Maise Williams, Bill Milner, Kian Parsiani, Pixie Davies, Donald Sumpter.

The second part of Joe Ahearne’s adaptation of James Herbert’s The Secret of Crickley Hall sees the tension stoked up as the malevolent force of Douglas Henshall’s Augustus Cribben starts to take more of a hold on the lives of the young family that resides in the former orphanage.

The Secret Of Crickley Hall. Part Two. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

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

The Secret Of Crickley Hall (Part Three). B.B.C. Television. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall, David Warner, Sarah Smart, Iain DeCaestecker, Olivia Cooke, Maise Williams, Bill Milner, Kian Parsiani, Pixie Davies, Donald Sumpter.

The final part of James Herbert’s acclaimed supernatural thriller, The Secret Of Crickley Hall, contained one of the most shocking scenes in recent memory on television and even though the scene was short, the chilling sight of children on the floor would have struck a nerve with anyone who has read anything of the disposal of human bodies during World War Two. Unnerving and it stuck in the craw but it proved to be an incredible piece of story-telling adapted for television by Joe Ahearne and for that the B.B.C. and the cast of the three part series deserve high credit for their acting.

The Secret Of Crickley Hall (Part Three). B.B.C. Television. Television Review. full post

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

House Of The Dragon. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Ewan Mitchell, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Glynn-Carney, Fabian Frankel, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans, Sonya Mizuno, Matthew Needham, Jefferson Hall, kurt Egyiawan, Eve Best, Paddy Considine, Paul Kennedy, Phil Daniels, Harry Collett, Max Wrottesley, Bethany Antonia, Anthony Flanagan, Phia Saban, Phoebe Campbell, Nicholas Jones, Vincent Regan, Freddie Fox.

It’s never what was is in the presentation, it is always what is excluded that leaves the viewer, the expectant fan aghast at the omission of what could have been, and the counter narrative that suggests a different conclusion to those paid, employed to deliver the freedom of the story in the best way they see fit.

House Of The Dragon. Series Two. Television Review. full post

(505 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

House Of The Dragon. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paddy Considine, Rhys Ifans, Matt Smith, Emma D’ Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Milly Alcock, Fabian Frankel, Eve Best, Graham McTavish, Bill Paterson, Steve Toussaint, Jefferson Hall, Gavin Spokes, Sonoya Mizurio, Matthew Needham, Milly Alcock, Emily Carey, David Horovitch, Kurt Egyiawan, Luke Tittensor, Phil Daniels, Anthony Flanagan, Ewan Mitchell, Ty Tennant, Sian Brooke, Garry Cooper.

Power is not only in hands of those wield it in the moment, but to those who can claim lineage to its formation.

House Of The Dragon. Television Series Review. full post

(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Bates Motel: Series Five. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell, Kenny Johnson, Ryan Hirst, Brooke Smith, Isabelle McNally, Austin Nichols, Jillian Fargey, Damon Gupton, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Rihanna, Carlton Cuse, Raphael Sbarge, Jhn Hainsworth, Antonio Cayonne.

The subversion of art and the human condition is not just an amusing way to pass the time or to create controversy, it is there to expand our scope and vision, to embrace that the expected moment of reveal can be overthrown and replaced by a single moment of surprise and altered narrative.

Bates Motel: Series Five. Television Review. full post

(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Bates Motel: Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thierot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell, Damon Gupton, Ryan Hurst, Jaime Ray Newman, Andrew Howard, Terence Kelly, Marshall Allman, Kelly-Ruth Mercier, Aliyah O’Brien, Karina Logue, Fiona Vroom, Craig Erikson, Anika Noni Rose, Louis Ferreira, David Cubitt, Luke Roessler, Kevin Rahm, Keenan Tracey, Alexia Fast, Alessandro Juliani, Lindsey Ginter, Kenny Johnson, Gina Chiarelli, Carmen Moore, Jay Brazeau, Molly Price.

Bates Motel: Series Four. Television Review. full post

(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Bates Motel: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thierot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell, Kenny Johnson, Kevin Rahm, Keenan Tracey, Ryan Hurst, Joshua Leonard, Peter Stebbings, Adetomiwa Edun, Andrew Howard, Nicola Peltz, Tracey Spiridakos, Anika Noni Rose, Wilson Bethel, Emilano Diez, Tom McBeath, Keegan Connor Tracy.

Bates Motel: Series Three. Television Review. full post

(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Vanity Fair. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Olivia Cooke, Tom Bateman, Johnny Flynn, Claudia Jessie, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale, Ellie Kendrick, Robert Pugh, Charlie Rowe, Sian Clifford, Martin Clunes, David Flynn, Matthew Baynton, Monica Dolan, Patrick FitzSymons, Felicity Montague, Claire Skinner, Peter Wright, Toby Williams, Elizabeth Barrington, Richie Campbell, Frances de la Tour, Mike Grady, Anthony Head, Suranne Jones.

Vanity Fair. Television Review. full post

(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

The Limehouse Golem, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Eddie Marsan, Douglas Booth, Sam Reid, Maria Valverde, Daniel Mays, Henry Goodman, Adam Brown, Morgan Watkins, Damien Thomas, Peter Sullivan, Amelia Crouch, Simon Meacock, Siobhán Cullen, Keeley Forsyth, Mark Tandy, Michael Jenn, David Macey, Craig Thomas Lambert, Levi Heaton, Clive Russell, David Bamber.

 

The Limehouse Golem, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)