Category Archives: Film

To Olivia. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Keeley Hawes, Darcey Ewart, Isabella Jonsson, Geoffrey Palmer, Sam Heughan, Conleth Hill, Michael Jibson, Sam Philips, Grant Crookes, Bobby O’ Neill, Bodhi Marsan, Robert Jarvis, Sarah Beckett, Jane-Charlotte Jones.

The life of the artist, the writer, the poet, is quite often one of doubt, frustration, isolation and damnation, and when they find even the one person who will listen to the fear wrapped up in the measures of beauty, at the back of their mind they know one day they might lose them, who might move on to new adventures told in a different way, or that like any adult, simply fade away, the shadow of their attention dissipating into the ether, like water from a tap that is slowly being turned off, the flow only matters if it is constant and observed.

To Olivia. Film Review. full post

(657 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

Becky. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Robert Maillet, Amanda Brugel, Isaiah Rockcliffe, Ryan McDonald, James McDougall, Leslie Adlam, Justin Holiday, Mike Dara, Charles Boyland, Bryan Edwards, Andrew Siwik, Chandra Michaels, Gage Graham-Arbuthnot, John D. Hickman, Markus Radan, Kaleb Young, Ric Garcia.

Is the psychopath or the killer created or are they born? The psychoanalysts’ nightmare scenario is that they cannot distinguish between the states of mind that either drive someone to kill based on the actions they encountered or been beaten by, or whether it is truly, disturbingly, inherent in the human subconscious to the point where any youth can mask such feelings of behaviour by society putting it down to associated teenage angst and torment.

Becky. Film Review. full post

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

Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett, Ewan McGregor, Ella Jay Basco, Chris Messina, Ali Wong, Derek Wilson, Joe Buraco III, Steven Williams, Charlene Amoia, K.K. Barrett.

The comic book became darker, it turned away from the quirky but loved offspring of the three or four picture strip that embedded themselves in the newspapers of the thirties and forties and in turn gave itself the new self-determined title of the Graphic Novel, and to the rejoice of the reader who immersed themselves into the world of D.C., Marvel and other purveyors of tales of suspense and disbelief, that they were no longer to be seen as people to be scorned or mocked, that in that name change, a commanding of respect was delivered.

Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn). Film Review. full post

(611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

The Swerve. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Azura Skye, Bryce Pinkham, Ashley Bell, Zach Rand, Taen Phillips, Liam Seib, Deborah Hedwell, Jason Gupton, Dan Daily, Lindsay Jackson, Kristine Sorenson, Jenna Marie Hess, Gretchen Portelles, Chadwick Davilsaint, Maikel Ramic, Josh England, Stevie Holcomb.

The Swerve. Film Review. full post

(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Twist. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Michael Caine, Lena Hedley, Rafferty Law, Sophie Simnett, David Walliams, Rita Ora, Noel Clarke, Franz Drameh, Jason Maza, Samuel Leakey, Tanya Burr, Sally Collett,

There is a fine line between reinvention for art’s-sake and revolution for the gift of authentic uniqueness, and whatever your view on adapting a classic story for the modern age, the result must be one that installs a connection between the social conscious and the message intended and that of the one actively using their senses to understand that it is not just intended for them, but for all.

Twist. Film Review. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Collide. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Ben Kingsley, Anthony Hopkins, Marwan Kenzari, Clemens Schick, Erdal Yildiz, Michael Epp, Aleksander Jovanovic, Markus Klauk, Johnny Palmiero, Ben Hacker, Joachim Krol, Christine Hecke, Lara Melina Siebertz, Nadia Hilker.

The question of what we will do for money and love is as old as recorded time, the two go hand in hand, the pair are intrinsically linked to the way we perceive what is important, for without money, what we love cannot be saved, bought or bartered for, at least that is the way writers will always have you believe, that a heart can only be saved if it has some sort of monetary association attached to it.

Collide. Film Review. full post

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

Harriet. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Clarke Peters, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Omar J. Dorsey, Henry Hunter Hall, Tim Guinee, Nick Basta, Joseph Lee Anderson, Antonio J Bell, CJ McBath, Alexis Louder, Ana Brooks, Janelle Monae, Zackary Momoh, Frank Riley III, Daphne Reed, Jenna Marie Hess, Kathryn Tkel, Vondie Curtos-Hall, Jennifer Nettles, Deborah Ayorinde, Mike Marunde, Kamillah Matthews, Rakeem Lewis, Tory Kittles, Tia L. Davis, Mitchell Hoog, William L. Thomas.

Harriet. Film Review. full post

(642 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

Blithe Spirit. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann, Judi Dench, Emilia Fox, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Michele Dotrice, Simon Kunz, James Fleet, Adil Ray, Alfredo Tavares, Callie Cooke, Colin Stinton, Stella Stocker, Dave Johns, Georgina Rich, Tam Williams, Julian Ferro, Martyn Mayger, Delroy Atkinson, Issy van Randwyck, Jaymes Sygrove, Owun Birkett, Dean Winchester, Charlie Carter, Winchester, Zach Wyatt, Connor Jones, Theo Ip, Andrew Reed, Christine Callaghan, Alex Winchester, Peter A. Rogers. 

Blithe Spirit. Film Review. full post

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

Soul. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, Alice Braga, Richard Ayoade, Phylicia Rashad, Donnell Rawlings, Questlove, Angela Bassett, Cora Champommier, Margo Hall, Daveed Diggs, Rhodessa Jones, Wes Studi, Sakina Jaffrey, Fortune Feinster, Calum Grant, Laura Mooney, Peggy Flood, Zenobia Schroff, June Squibb, Ochuwa Oghie, Jennie Tirado, Cathy Cavadini, Dorian Lockett, Doris Burke, Ronnie Del Carmen, Esther Chae, Elisapie Isaac, Marcus Shelby, Jason Pace. 

Soul. Film Review. full post

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

An Invisible Woman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Felicity Jones, Ralph Fiennes, Kristen Scott Thomas, Perdita Weeks, Joanna Scanlan, Tom Hollander, Amanda Hale, John Kavanagh, Tom Burke, Susanna Hislop, Tommy Curson-Smith, David Collings, Michael Marcus, Richard McCabe, Gabriel Vick, Mark Dexter, Joseph Paxton, Charlotte Hope, Philippe Smolikowski.

How sincere is the light we shine on other’s flaws when we cannot acknowledge our own? The politician and the layman might preach and be found wanting and shunned from office, but the artist, how much do expect from them when it is their creativity and observation that can make them prone to fall in m oral outrage, and yet rise without sanction, without misgivings from the public as they continue to demand more from their insightful hero.

An Invisible Woman. Film Review. full post

(690 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)