Category Archives: Film

Jojo Rabbit. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Taika Waititi, Scarlett Johansson, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, Stephen Merchant, Archie Yates, Luke Brandon Field, Sam Haygarth, Stanislav Callas, Joe Weintraub, Brian Caspe, Gabriel Andrews, Billy Raynor.

It is a startling and sober fact of life that there will always be people that will not only toe the party line, but actively and resolutely be so brainwashed by rhetoric that they cannot see the words used for what they are, lies, insidious and deceptive, full of fire and brimstone, but hollow, meaningless, insufferably filled with hate, consumed by madness.

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(616 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

Resistance. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Clemence Poesy, Felix Moati, Vica Kerekes, Matthais Schweighofer, Geza Rohrig, Ed Harris, Bella Ramsey, Martha Issova, Karl Markovics, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Alex Fondja, Aurelie Bancilhon, Alicia Von Rittberg, Louise Morell, Wolfgang Ceczor, Philip Lenkowsky, Edgar Ramirez, Klara Issova, Dimitri Storoge, Felicity Montague.

It is perhaps understandable that we look at life with a sense of myopia, a lack of seeing the larger picture, only content to know what have already gleaned from our youth and dismissing any further layering of contextualisation or adding to our knowledge of events, of other cultures, or indeed how different people view and appreciate art; understandable but not a train of thought that should be approved of, must not be allowed to prevail.

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(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Richard Jewell. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Nina Arianda, Eric Mendenhall, Mitchell Hoog, David Shae.

“Get it first, but first get it right“, these words of journalistic lore have somehow become lost in the advent of wall to wall news coverage, the search for constant ratings, and the salaciousness that can be relayed to a baying public who have forgotten the meaning of seeing any breaking headline and then dismissing what the article has to say.

Richard Jewell. Film Review. full post

(677 words, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

The Invisible Man (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Michael Dorman, Benedict Hardie, Renee Lim, Brian Meegan, Nick Kici, Vivienne Greer, Nicholas Hope, Cleave Williams, Cardwell Lynch, Sam Smith.

Alongside The War Of The Worlds, The Invisible Man is perhaps H.G Wells’ most adapted piece of literature, and like its literary predecessor it has suffered under the enormous weight of thought that has gone into the writing to ever truly ever be captured perfectly on more that one occasion.

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

Above Suspicion. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Sophie Lowe, Johnny Knoxville, Austin Hebert, Thora Birch, Karl Glusman, Kevin Dunn, Brian Lee Franklin, Omar Benson Miller, Chris Mulkey, Brittany O’Grady, Luke Spencer Roberts,  Lex Kelli, Landon Durrence, Nettie Kraft, Taxo Michaels, Joshua Mikel, Katie Campbell, Daniel R. Hill.

Above Suspicion. Film Review. full post

(677 words, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

Just Mercy. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, Rob Morgan, O’ Shea Jackson Jr., Brie Larson, Rafe Spall, Tim Blake Nelson, Greta Green, Michael Harding, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Jacinte Blankenship.

You can throw all the money in the world at a film and it can still fail, possibly not in box offices returns, but in terms of the message that it’s director, its writer and cast wish to deliver to the audience. What it may have in on screen content abundance, does not always mean it has character woven through it, that it may have personality, but it is sure to be missing integrity, absent of honour.

Just Mercy. Film Review. full post

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

Villain. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Craig Fairbrass Robert Glenister, George Russo, Mark Monero, Izuka Hoyle, Taz Skylar, Tomi May, Nicholas Aron, Lauryn Aiufo, Eloise Lovell Anderson, Jade Asha, Selom Awadzi, Cassie Bancroft, Jamie Crew, Sergio Dondi.

There is a certain nostalgia over what is considered the criminal class to which Britain seems to have wrapped up in hues of golden perspective, a thought of how you knew where you stood with the likes of The Krays and all who worked alongside them, that they looked after their own and really only ever took on others out to cause their neighbours harm. It is almost as if we imagine them to be walking down the street looking like John Steed from The Avengers, whilst being able to throw a punch like Lennox Lewis and portraying a face that a grandmother could love.

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(534 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Body Cam. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Mary J. Blige, Nat Wolf, David Zayas, Anika Noni Rose, David Warshofsky, Ian Casselberry, Philip Fornah, Lara Grice, Demetrius Grosse, Naima Ramos-Chapman, Renell Gibbs, Lorrie Odom, Jeff Pope, Mason Mackie, Jobrail Nantambu, Anil Bajaj, Han Soto, George Wilson, Lance E. Nichols, Sylvia Grace Crim, Emonie Ellison, GiGi Erneta, Maya Goodwin.

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

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson, Marvann Plunkett, Enrico Colantoni, Wendy Makkena, Tammy Blanchard, Noah Harpster, Carmen Cusack, Kelley Davis, Christine Lahti, Maddie Corman, Daniel Krell, Jon L. Peacock, Gretchen Koerner.

It could be forcibly argued that we have been looking in the wrong places for our heroes, certainly in an age dominated by looks, by appearance, by the facade of the face shown rather than what is more important, the heart, the soul, and the way they communicate their message.

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(637 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

The Wretched. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: John-Paul Howard, Piper Curdo, Jamison Jones, Azie Tesfai, Zarah Mahler, Kevin Bigley, Gabriela Quezada Bloomgarden, Richard Ellis, Blane Crockarell, Judah Abner Paul, Ja’layah Washington, Amy Waller, Ross Kidder, Kasey Bell, Harry Burkey.

The difficulty is not in the application of writing a story about a witch, but in the deed of persuading the audience that the one at the heart of the story is not a cliche. One of the oldest protagonists in literature, the witch is greeted with either false doctrine or with a sense of damage in which the guarded and the wary find alluring to the point of intoxication.

The Wretched. Film Review. full post

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