Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Andrea Day, Trevante Rhodes, Natasha Lyonne, Garett Hedlund, Leslie Jordan, Miss Lawrence, Dusan Dukic, Erik LaRay Harvey, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Koumba Ball, Adriane Lexox, Letitia Brookes, Tyler James Williams, Warren ‘Slim’ Williams, Jeff Vorbett, Damian Joseph Quinn, Robert Alan Beuth, Randy Davison, Melvin Gregg, Kevin Hanchard, Furly Mac, Evan Ross.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Josh O’Connor, Tamsin Grieg, David Judge, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati, Deborah Findlay, Ella Dacres, Ellis Howard, Lloyd Hutchinson, Alex Mugnaioni, Shubham Saraf, Colin Tierney.
Mercutio was ahead of his time as he lay dying in the arms of Romeo, a plague has indeed been visited upon all our houses, but not the direct one you may be thinking of, but instead the beast of burden which has seen audiences and theatres changing completely their style of interaction with each other, the after effects of a life changing situation meaning that to engage with the public and give them hope in what has been a period of uncertainty.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Will Forte, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, Zac Efron, Amanda Seyfried, Kiersey Clemons, Ken Jeong, Tracy Morgan, Frank Welker, Iain Armitage, McKenna Grace, Pierce Gagnon, Ariana Greenblatt, Simon Cowell, Christina Hendricks, Henry Winkler, Harry Perry, John DiMaggio, Kevin Heffernan, Ira Glass, Henry Kaufman, Maya Erskine, Billy West, Don Messick, Fred Tatasciore, Justina Machado, Kennedy Peil, John McDaniel, Ryan Folsey, Pam Coats, Tony Cervone, Adam Sztykiel, Alex Kauffman, Vanara Taing, Sarah Lancia, Maven Morgan, Eric Cowell Michael Kurinsky.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jenelle Monae, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Arabella Landrum, Tongayi Xhirisa, T.C. Matherne, Robert Aramayo, Marque Richardson, London Boyce, Bernard Hocke, Dayna Schaaf, Gabourey Sidibe, Todd Voltz, Lily Cowles, Caroline Cole, Geraldine Glenn, Grace Junot, Victoria Blade.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Eddie Izzard, Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, James D’Arcy, David Schofield, Carla Juri, Kevin Eldon, Nigel Lindsay, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Bianca Nawrath, Maria Dragus, Celyn Jones, Tijan Marei, Franziska Brandmeier, Joe Bone, Richard Elfyn, Nicole Kelleher, Maud Druine, Andrew Byron, Luisa-Celine Gaffron, Juliet Hartley, Toby Hadoke.
We like to think children and teenagers have become more sophisticated and more adapt in understanding how the world works, that in the way they can overcome technology and hold their own in conversation regarding ideas, they, like their adult counterparts, are still as susceptible to falling for the charms of fanaticism of any political persuasion, that the words of rhetoric can just be as much a thrill when spoken with the voice of authority, as the soft coercion holds the beauty of poetry aloft.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Ezra Miller, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Connie Nielsen, J.K. Simmons, Jesse Eisenberg, Ciaran Hinds, Ryan Zheng, Amber Heard, Joe Morton, Lisa Loven Konsli, David Thewlis, Russell Crowe, Billy Crudup, Joe Manganiello.
You can have too much of a good thing, a statement that has been proved time and again throughout history, a well-ironed phrase that insists the buyer beware of consuming more than they can handle, or of inserting too much belief in the product that offers so much intensity and effects that the final product can leave you bloated, knowing that some of what you have devoured is akin to fluff and air.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
Cast: Sam Heughan, Hannah John-Kamen, Ruby Rose, Andy Serkis, Tom Hopper, Tom Wilkinson, Owain Yeoman, Ray Panthaki, Noel Clarke, Anne Reid, Jing Lusi, Sarah Winter, Caroline Boulton, Richard McCabe, Douglas Reith, Dylan Smith, Attila C. Arpa, Aymen Hamdouchi, Grant Crookes, Tim Fellingham, Roderick Hill, Ty Hurley, Martin Angerbauer, Kevin Ezekiel Ogunleye, Karoly Baksai.
In the best laid traditions of James Bond, Her Majesty’s Government, and the Secret Services, it takes a psychopath to catch a psychopath, however the instrument of such bluntness is a cold steel walnut going up against a fragile glass hammer when it comes to penetrating the exterior of the film lover, especially when such a tale is presented without the humour of 007 or the best laid plan of a worthy adversary.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis, Zahn McClarnon, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Lisa Cromerty, Leland Assinewai, Kayla Dumont, Shaun Smyth, Jason Jazrawy, Brielle Robillard, Melanie Scrofano, Charlotte Lindsay Marron, Patrick Garrow, Mark Charles Cowling, Heather Stevenson, Tiahra Tulloch, Danielle Ryan, Caleb Ellsworth-Clark, Josh Cruddas.
We have learned through hundreds of years of written storytelling, and thousands of years of oral narrative, that the woods and forests, whilst beautiful to look at, hold many secrets, untold dangers, and creatures that hunt for the sheer exhilaration of the chase, and to feed on those unsuspecting souls who pay no heed to the warnings, or are clouded by the romanticism that has filled their heads of the beauty in the trees.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
Cast: Octavia Spencer, Anne Hathaway, Chris Rock, Jahzir Bruno, Stanley Tucci, Brian Bovell, Joseph Zinvebma, Josette Simon, Jonathan Livingstone, Miranda Sarfo Peprah, Ashanti Prince-Asafo, Lunga Skosana, Vivienne Acheampong, Ken Nwosu, Arnaud Adrian, Charles Edwards, Morgana Robinson, Codie-Lei Eastwick, Sobowale Antonio Bamgbose, Orla O’Rourke, Eurdice El-Etr, Ana-Maria Maskell, Eugenia Caruso, Angus Wright, Cyril Nri.
To compare like with like is only human, and whilst art is not a competition, it cannot be dismissed when holding in your thoughts two versions of a much loved and admired source material to which both versions claim to be authentic and with the spirit of the author in their production.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Katherine Langford, Charlie Plummer, Yvonne Orji, Hayley Law, Piper Perabo, Rob Huebel, Chris Shields, Marlowe Percival, Laine MacNeil, Clive Holloway, Doralynn Mui, Kaitlyn Bernard, Jared Ager-Foster, Mellany Barros, Chelah Horsdal, Luvia Petersen, Jarrett Carlington, Peter Bundic, Bzhaun Rhoden, Braeden Shrimpton, Eva Day.
A film should not have to rely on age or a viewer’s monocled taste to be seen, and perhaps admired for what it brings to the screen, like any art form the more people that see it, the more perhaps life can be understood, the snapshot of thought is not what we ignore, but what we are willing to embrace.