Category Archives: Film

Stardust. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Johnny Flynn, Marc Maron, Jena Malone, Derek Moran, Anthony Flanagan, Julian Richings, Aaron Poole, Monica Parker, Ryan Blakely, Gord Rand, Paulino Nunes, Richard Clarkin, Brendan J. Rowland, Jeremy Legat, Annie Briggs, Olivia Carruthers, Geoffrey McGivern, Lara Heller, Martin Askew, Dylan Roberts, Olivia Becker, James Cade, David Hubbard, Jorja Cadence, Gracie Robbin.

To be constrained by feelings of inadequacy, of guilt, or of range, to believe that your voice will be lost in a sea of thousands as they jostle for attention in the screaming void, is perhaps to understand madness, or at least fear it.

Stardust. Film Review. full post

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

Rambo: Last Blood. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Adriana Barraza, Yvette Monreal, Joaquin Cosio, Jessica Madsen, Oscar Jaenada, Fenessa Pineda, Marco de la O, Alvaro Flores, Ursula Murayama, Cathy Pulido, Tick Zingale, Manuel Uriza.

Rambo: Last Blood. Film Review. full post

(606 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

Death Of Me. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Maggie Q, Luke Hemsworth, Alex Essoe, Kat Ingkarat, Kelly B. Jones, Caledonia Burr, Chatchawai Kamonsakpitak, Sahapoom Totrungsup, Tanapath Singamrath, Oliver Paul Varry, Saengkham Chanthawong, Irada Ritsira, Tannapat Sirimat, Katria Louise Reed, Somjai Hmanbut, Pivanit Ambavat, Panapat Chankasemmima, Jidapa Suwet-Ekkul, Michael S. New, Santiphap Tubnguen, Rapeepat Phromanumet, Bryan Michael Rilinger, Pissinee Raksakul.

Death Of Me. Film Review. full post

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

When Another Dragon Roars (2021). Theatre/Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lucy Fiori, Austin Mitchell Hewitt.

Theatre is important for the development of younger minds; it allows the child or pre-teen to be immersed into a world where they can interact and understand their emotions in a way that quite often television and film cannot convey because of the system being a one-way flow of information.

When Another Dragon Roars (2021). Theatre/Film Review. full post

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

Happily. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Kerry Bishe, Joel McHale, Al Madrigal, Natalie Zea, Paul Scheer Billie Wolff, Stephen Root, Natalie Morales, Jon Daly, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Shannon Woodward, Charlyne Yi, Brecklin Meyer, Brea Grant.

Of all the emotions that humans suffer, jealousy is arguably one of the worst, it brings out a certain vileness, a baseness of feeling which can lead to unpleasantness, contempt, and in the end the destruction of friendships and love through a lowness of action that is on par with despicability.

Happily. Film Review. full post

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

An American Pickle. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Seth Rogan, Sarah Snook, Eliot Glazer, Kalen Allen, Kevin O’ Rourke, Sean Whalen, Geoffrey Cantor, Carol Leifer, Jorme Taccone, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Alyse Zwick, Dalon Huntington, J Michael Grey, Efka Kvaracieius, Darryl Bailey Smith II, Dino Rende, Peter Kybart, Joanna Adler, Herb Mendelsohn, Norm Golden, Al Nazemian, Adam Dunhoff, Mark Doamond, Leib Cohen, Liz Cackowski, Tim Robinson, Betsy Sodaro, Quinta Brunson, Kurt Braunohler, Michael Weaver, David Flick, Raymond Neil Hernandez, John Walpole, Ian Poake.

An American Pickle. Film Review. full post

(571 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Unhinged. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 7/10

Cast: Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorious, Gabriel Bateman, Jimmi Simpson, Austin P. McKenzie, Juliene Joyner, Stephen Louis Grush, Anne Leighton, Devyn A. Tyler, Sylvia Grace Crim, Vivian Fleming-Alvaraez, Samantha Beaulieu, Lucy Faust, Scheryl W. Brown, Michael Papajohn, Scott Walker, Kriss Fortunato, Richie Burden, Deven MacNair, Gretchen Koerner, Donna Duplantier, Brett Smrz, Andrew Morgado.

Unhinged. Film Review. full post

(517 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Promising Young Woman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Carey Mulligan, Adam Brody, Ray Nicholson, Sam Richardson, Timothy E. Goodwin, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, Alli Hart, Loren Paul, Scott Aschenbrenner, Bo Burnham, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Alison Brie, Gabriel Oliva, Bryan Lillis, Francisca Estevez, Lorna Scott, Connie Britton, Casey Adams, Vince Lozano, Molly Shannon, Max Greenfield, Chris Lowell, Mike Horton, Steve Monroe, Angela Zhou, Austin Talynn Carpenter. 

Promising Young Woman. Film Review. full post

(580 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

The Blackout: Invasion Earth. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Aleksey Chadov, Pyotr Fyodorov, Svetlana Ivanova, Lukerya Ilyashenko, Kseniya Kutepova, Konstantin Lavronenko, Filipp Avdeev, Artyom Markaryan, Sergey Godin, Artyom Tkachenko, Yuriy Borisov, Maksim Emelyanov, Svetlana Miloradova.

If you believe Hollywood, or even British science fiction television serials, you might well consider that alien life forms would only ever deem that the United States of America and the U.K. were viable places for alien invasion, that the rest of the world, just is not the right place for first contact, or for the end of humanity.

The Blackout: Invasion Earth. Film Review. full post

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

Angel Has Fallen. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Gerard Butler, Piper Perabo, Morgan Freeman, Fredrick Schmidt, Danny Huston, Lance Reddick, Rocci Williams, Harry Ditson, Ori Pfeffer, Michael Landes, Mark Arnold, Kerry Shale, Tim Blake Nelson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nick Nolte.

Occasionally you just have to sit back and be astonished at how a film manages to be given the green light to see the light of day, how, despite the odds, it morphs into a franchise that keeps going, and how it hooks in one of the most respected and gracious actors of his time, the honourable Morgan Freeman, to what is surely no more than a down market version of No Way Out, a simplistic, basic thriller that leaves a taste so thin in the mouth that it could be mistaken for gruel.

Angel Has Fallen. Film Review. full post

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