Tag Archives: Richard Ayoade

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.

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

The Mandalorian (Season Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Katee Sackhoff, Giancarlo Esposito, Temuera Morrison, Mercedes Varnado, Misty Rosas, Omid Abtahi, Ming-Na Wen, John Leguizamo, Timothy Olyphant, Richard Ayoade, Simon Kassianides, Titus Welliver, Carl weathers, Michael Biehn, Rosario Dawson, Diana Lee Isosanto, Bill Burr, Mark Hamill.

There was a time when a graphic novel adaption, or a spin off from a much-loved film would be met with the mixture of apathy and delight. Apathy because there was only so much that television could do in terms of making the programme accessible and in keeping with the character’s back story.

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(501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

The Mandalorian. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers, Werner Herzog, Omid Abtahi, Nick Nolte, Taika Waititi, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Amy Sedaris, Jake Cannavale, Ming-Na Wen, Mark Boone Junior, Bill Burr, Natalia Tena, Clancey Brown, Richard Ayoade, Ismael Cruz Cordova.

Just when you thought a franchise had no chance of recovery, from out of the darkness comes a different type of light, not one controlled by The Force, but one of actual in-depth characterisation, of thought-provoking subplots and two leads to whom have arguably become one of the great partnerships captured on screen for a long time.

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(512 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Paddington 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Noah Taylor, Peter Capaldi, Brendon Gleeson, Joanna Lumley, Eileen Atkins, Ben Miller, Tom Conti, Meera Syal, Samuel Joslin, Madeline Harris, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Simon Farnaby, Jessica Hynes, Richard Ayoade, Tom Davies, Cal McCrystal.

It is through the eyes of the innocent that we perhaps see beauty and good in the world, that we don’t just tolerate the storms and the fire that surround us but that we embrace it, we seek out the violence not to get a thrill from the fight but to hopefully offer a solution, a kind word spoken can make the difference in a day and in a person’s life.

Paddington 2. Film Review. full post

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