Category Archives: Film

Cruella. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, John McCrea, Emily Beecham, Mark Strong, Kayvan Novak, Kirby Howell-Baptiste Jamie Demetriou, Leo Bill, Tipper Seifert-Cleveland.

For all the great characters that the Disney studios have created or adapted in their time as one of the influential film makers of the last 100 years, it is perhaps the incredible villain Cruella de Vil who stands out alongside the likes of Captain Hook and The Evil Queen as ones who give children and adults alike their glimpse of how the twisted nature of humanity can be taken down a road of self-indulgence, possessed by want, and turned ugly within by their greed.

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

Tom and Jerry: The Movie. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Jordan Bolger, Rob Delaney, Patsy Ferran, Pallavi, Colin Just, Somi De Souza, Patrick Poletti, Janis Ahern, Ken Jeong, Camilla Arfwedson, Bobby Cannavale, Nicky Jam, Joey Wells, Harry Ratchford, Will Horton, Na’im Lynn, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudaker, Tim Story, Joe Bone, Edward Judge, Christina Chong, Daniel Adegboyega, Craig Stein, Edward Dogliani.

For anyone over a certain age, Tom and Jerry could be conceivably looked upon as one of the great double acts of the 20^th Century.

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(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Wonder Woman 1984. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kirsten Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Lilly Aspell, Amr Waked, Kristoffer Polaha, Lucian Perez, Stuart Milligan, Shane Attwooll, Lilly Aspell, Lynda Carter.

A wish is humanity’s way of avoiding the hard work it takes to make a dream come true; the immediate hit of gratification in problem solving or gaining advantage is there as a get out clause for the thought it takes to embrace the struggle and see the objective from all sides, to take every possible move into consideration.

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

The Dry. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Eric Bana, Genevieve O’Reilly, Kier O’Donnell, John Polson, Julia Blake, Bruce Spence, William Zappa, Matt Nable, James Frenchville, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Joe Klocek, BeBe Bettencourt, Claude Scott-Mitchell, Sam Corlett, Miranda Tapsell, Daniel Frederiksen, Eddie Baroo, Renee Lim, Martin Dingle Wall, Francine McAsey, Dawn Klingberg, Nick Farnell, Rosanna Lockhart Tommy Nable, Ryder Hudson, Maude Davey, Audrey Moore, Jarvis Mitchell.

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

Great White. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Katrina Bowden, Aaron Jakubenko, Tim Kano, Kimie Tsukakoshi, Te Kohe Tuhaka, Jason Wilder, Tatjana Marjanovic.

Where Jaws rewarded its fans and cinema audiences with the unexpected shock factor, other films that have tried their best to match the intensity of a natural predator, have failed to note the several factors that makes a good film about the dangers of the sea and the creatures that live there, into a great one that adds truth to the situation when humans trespass into the vast deep blue sea.

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(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Bill & Ted Face The Music. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, William Sadler, Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Hal Landon Jr., Beck Bennett, Kid Cudi, Amy Stoch, Holland Taylor, Jillian Bell, Dave Grohl, DazMann Still, Jeremiah Craft, Sharon Gee, Patty Anne Miller, George Carlin, Piotr Michael.

It is time to face the music, the unavoidable truth, that not everything in life that has a certain groundswell of opinion must be made, produced, or even given much consideration. That is the position that Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter regrettably find themselves in as they return 25 years later to their alter egos of Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan in Bill & Ted Face The Music.

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

School’s Out Forever. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Oscar Kennedy, Liam Lau Fernandez, Anthony Head, Alex Macqueen, Steve Oram, Jasmine Blackborow, Samantha Bond, Max Rapheal, Sebastian Croft, Richard Elfyn, Harry Tuffin, Freya Parks, Gordon Alexander, Alex Blake, Ben Dilloway, Jayden Elijah, Arun Bassi, Stellan Powell, James Corrigan, Connie Hyde.

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(554 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

The Comeback Trail. (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Kate Katzman, Eddie Griffin, Chris Mullinax, Patrick Muldoon, Julie Lott, Blerim Destani, Vincent Spano, Paul Witten, Aighleann McKiernan, Melissa Greenspan, Joel Michaely, Jermaine Washington, Desiree Geraldine, Morse Bicknell, Danno Hanks.

Like the Blues, it seemed inevitable that the days of the Western movie being cinematic gold had long since departed in a wave of nostalgia and fond memories, and whilst the audience might miss the gun smoke, the sense of identifying with the lone pioneer of days long past, the constant signalling and portrayal of the Native American people as the casting villain, the rampant stereotyping, and negativity is something that is not missed at all.

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

Where’d You Go, Bernadette. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson, Kristen Wiig, Patrick Sebes, Zoe Chao, David Paymer, Megan Mullally, Laurence Fishbourne, Steve Zahn, Patrick Jordan, Shaun Cameron Hall, Judy Greer, Maureen d’Armand, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Kate Burton.

There are those who will stifle a person’s creativity to the point that when it has been beaten out of them, they then complain that the artist has given up on life, that they should just admit that they have no value and become a drone, an automaton, serving only the capitalist gain of supply and demand in the consumable.

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

The New Mutants. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10

Cast: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga, Adam Beach, Thomas Kee, Colbi Gannett, Happy Anderson, Dustin Ceithamer, Jacinto Vega SpiritWolf, Chuck, Marilyn Manson, Jeffrey Corazzini, Mickey Gilmore, Max Schochet.

It is a tale of divided generations, the ones that have been fortunate, blessed even, to find themselves in a time when cinematic adaptions of their favourite Marvel characters has by and large been positive, the reception for example of the transfer to television with some of what may be considered minor hitters from the long list of heroes and villains finding themselves to be just as rightly adored as the perpetual is a symbol of the staying power of the dominance that Marvel has over its rivals in creating the hero for our time.

The New Mutants. Film Review. full post

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