Category Archives: Film

Captain America: Brave New World. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez, Shira Hass, Carl Lumbly, Tim Blake Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Xosha Roquemore, Jóhannes Hauker Jóhannesson, William Mark McCullough, Takehiro Hira, Harsh Nayyar, Rick Espaillat, Todd Allen Durkin, Dustin Lewis, Rachael Kubacki, Alan Boell, Ava Hill, Marissa Chanel Hampton, Katerina Eichenberger, Mark Pettit, John Mark Bowman, Katina Rankin, John Cihangir, Eric Mbanda, Koji Nishiyama, Davis Atkinson, John N. Dixon, Josh Robin, Sharon Tazewell, Pete Burris, Sebastian Stan.

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

The Last Voyage of The Demeter. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Chris Walley, Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapicic, Martin Furuland, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Woody Norman, Javier Botet, Graham Turner, Andy Murray, Nicola Passetti, Christopher York, Vladimir Cabek, Rudolf Danielewicz, Noureddine Farihi, Malcolm Galea, Adam Shaw, Jack Doggart, Joe Depasquale, Sally Reeve.

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(662 words, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)

Nosferatu. (2025). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Defoe, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, Adéla Hesová, Milena Konstantinova, Stacy Thunes, Gregory Gudgeon, Robert Russell, Curtis Matthew, Claudiu Trandafir, Georgina Bereghianu, Jordan Haj, Katerina Bila, Maria Ion, Tereza Duskova, Liana Navrot, Mihai Verbinstschi, Karel Dobry, Andrei Sergeev, Matej Benes, Marek Pospichal, Jan Filipenský, Alex East, Christian Dunkley-Clark, Andrea Miltner, Robin Finesilver, Paul A Maynard, Charles Horne, Ella Bernstein, Meredith Digings.

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(566 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Star Trek: Section 31. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision *


Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Omari Hardwick, Sam Richardson, Robert Kazinsky, Kacey Rohl, Sven Ruygrok, James Hiroyuki Liao, Humberly González, Joe Pingue, Miku Martineau, James Huang, Nikita Kim, Cindy Goh, Houstan Wong, Sonja Smits, Emily Mei, Adam Kenneth Wilson, Augusto Bitter, Jamie Lee Curtis.

There is a palpable disappointment to the expectant fan when it comes to the hyped-up talk to which the unexpected addition to a long running and remarkably influential television series falls foul of storyline, action, and cohesive interaction to the world in which it was conceived.


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(461 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

The Witch. (2024). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Russell Shaw, Ryan Spong, Sarah Alexandra Marks, Fabrizio Santino, Mims Burton, Nick Tuck, Nell Bailey, Ritchi Edwards, Hazel Fell, Jane Hamlet, Danny Howard, Arpen Kapadia, Livvy Nicolae, Anto Sharp, Ella Starbuck.

Like many stock-in trade characters or tropes, the notion of the witch has become one that has become over-used and to little or no effect of portraying something new, revealing little even of the origins or the disciplines of the women who practise such machinations of the spirit world.

The Witch. (2024). Film Review. full post

(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

I.S.S. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, John Gallagher Jr., Masha Mashkova, Costa Ronin, Pilou Asbæk.

Even if there were just two people left on Earth, they would find a way to carry on a war that destroyed all other life in the name of patriotism, nationalism, and self-interest.

I.S.S. Film Review. full post

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

The Holdovers. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Michael Provost, Andrew Garmen, Naheem Garcia, Stephen Thirne, Gillian Vigman, Tate Donovan, Darby Lee-Stack, Bill Mootos, Dustin Tucker, Juanita Pearl, Alexander Cook, Liz Bishop, Cole Tristan Murphy, Will Sussbauer, Carter Shimp, Melissa McMeekin, Dan Aid, Kelly Aucoin, Colleen Clinton, Fred Robbins, David J. Curtis, Pamela Jayme Morgan.

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

Freud’s Last Session. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries, Jodi Balfour, Jeremy Northam, Orla Brady, George Andrew-Clarke, Rhys Mannion, Pádraic Delaney, Stephen Campbell-Moore, Aiden McArdle, Tarek Bishara, Nina Kolomiitseva, Gary Buckley, Emmet Kirwan, David Shields, Anna Amalie Blomeyer. 

Perfect for the stage, but perhaps in many eyes not good enough for the large screen, in that itself the message is lost in psychoanalysis and treatment, the thought that one piece of art cannot exist in two or more different realms of the public’s mind; this schism is a mindset that cannot afford space in the human experience.

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(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Zombie Town. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Marlon Kazadi, Madi Monroe, Dan Aykroyd, Henry Czerny, Brenna Coates, Chevy Chase, Lexie Mitchell, Brooke A. Smith, Chris Farquhar, Mikael Conde, Jonas Goddard Lashbrook, Ryan Anthony Mauro, Chattrisse Dolabaille, Scott Thompson, Callan Potter, Samuel Lariviere, Emiliana Perrotta, Bruce McCulloch, Rossana Tassone, Jocelyn Lacroix, Mitch Markowitz.

Genres lose their power when they have not only been parodied, but when those same parodies cease to be amusing, when everything they have that is special fails, when the jokes no longer are seen to be fit for purpose.

Zombie Town. Film Review. full post

(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Joker: Folie à Deux. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan, Harry Lawtey, Leigh Gill, Ken Leung, Jacob Lofland, Bill Smotrovich, Sharon Washington, Alfred Rubin Thompson.

Imagine the longest middle finger to be attached to the largest, most muscled, sizeable hand, and then seeing it for all its worth as it is raised up in the face of all, a large moment in which we understand we have been probably taken for a ride; one set of the audience will see it with anguish and fury, feeling the ridicule personally…the other knowing at the end that the joke was on them and revelling in the cinema reveal in which the emotional needs and wounds have been opened and the flesh ripped apart.

Joker: Folie à Deux. Film Review. full post

(547 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)