Category Archives: Film

3022. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Omar Epps, Kate Walsh, Angus Macfadyen, Jorja Fox, Miranda Cosgrove, Enver Giokai, Haaz Sleiman, Emma Hebda, Audrey Loove, Faith Alexis Oliver, Sara Tomko.

When the world dies screaming, when it cracks open like an egg and all that remains is dust and fragments of what was once our home, only then shall we truly know ourselves. If we witness this momentous occasion from the depths of space, only then shall we realise that the Universe is a place where we have no right to be.

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

Vita & Virginia. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isavella Rossellini, Rupert Penry-Jones, Peter Ferdinando, Emerald Fennell, Gethin Anthony, Rory Fleck Byrne, Karla Crome, Adam Gillen, Brenock O’Connor, Amelie Metcalfe, Darren Dixon, Sam Hardy, Jane McGrath, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Thalia Heffernan, Bryan Murray, Evelyn Lockley.

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(521 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

The Go-Go’s. Film Documentary Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

There is a lot of talk that gets bandied around as if it is the truest form of opinion, laced with the narrow statements of statistics which presents itself as facts, is somehow justified when it comes to declaring just who was the most important, perhaps the supremely influential, or even the finest to have ever graced a stage and performed music that sparked a revolution.

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(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

The Public. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Emilio Estevez, Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling, Jena Malone, Christian Slater, Jacob Vargas, Gabrielle Union, Derek Polen, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Rhymefest, Ki Honk Lee, Patrick Hume, Richard T. Jones, Susanna Thompson, Spencer Garrett, Michael Douglas Hall,  Bryant Bentley, Nik Pajic, Jared Earland, Dale Hodges.

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(584 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Sweetheart. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Andrew Crawford, Benedict Samuel.

The castaway is no stranger to cinema audience, it is how the underlying tension of loneliness and survival is portrayed is where the film can live or die on its knees, and occasionally be seen as one of the fundamental films of its type which resonates deeply with all who see it.

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(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Never Let Go. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Mykelti Williamson, Alfred Molina, Brian Tyree Henry, Shinelle Azoroh, Byron Mann, April Grace, Omar Leyva, Sarkis Ninos, Ray Barnes.

The concept of Time travel is one that is not new to film audiences, by its very nature it allows us to ask what if?, it permits the cinematic voyeur to believe they can find a way to change a traumatic event into one of benign occasion, and yet for some unfathomable reason, there are those that still find way to build up a story which revolves around the novel way in which it is applied, to make the situation one of consequence and incident, and turn it on its head and deliver a tame, if not submissive, ending.

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

Playing With Fire. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10

Cast: John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo, Brianna Hilderbrand, Dennis Haysbert, Judy Greer, Tyler Mane, Paul Potts, Christian Convery, Finlay Rose Slater.

You can create great drama out of a crisis, you can get the point across of how vital the emergency services are in an insightful way, and you can also give the audience pleasure in seeing how brave and dedicated people react to moments that are away from the front line, the off duty moments, the private instances in which the guard is allowed to briefly be put down, yet to make a full feature comedy, one that has three great supporting actors to whom the genre is engrained, widely misses the mark of what should pass for idea, the presence of the comedic style.

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(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Primal. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Nicholas Cage, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durrand, Jeremy Nazario, LaMonica Garrett, Michael Imperioli, Isaac Santiago, Braulio Castillo Hijo, Tommy Walker, Sewell Whitney, Leon Andrew Joseph, Sebastian Vasquez, John Lewis, Rey Hernandez, Drake Shannon, Jaime Irizarry, Daniel Salinas Gonzalez, Pablo Tufino, Lunarena Del Fresno, Brian Tester, Juan C. Defendini.

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

The Goldfinch. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Willa Fitzgerald, Finn Wolfhard, Aneurin Barnard, Ashleigh Cummings, Aimee Laurence, Robert Joy, Boyd Gaines, Carley Connors, Hailey Wist, Denis O’Hare.

Obsession is often born out of desire to recapture something that was once lost, something precious that Time and circumstances dictated that we have taken, robbed, from us. We have it within us to use the idea of want as an excuse to see a painting, a book, a person, and wish to see it our purpose to own it or them, that we seek out the beautiful because we somehow believe it completes us, or at least makes us look different in the eyes of others as they see us with the object of our fascination and that of our preoccupation.

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(494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Luce. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Norbert Leo Butz, Andrea Bang, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Astro, Omar Shariff Brunson Jr., Noah Gaynor, Amanda Troyer, Christopher Mann, Hannah Cabell, Liza J. Bennett.

The relationship between teacher and student is one that is precariously balanced, too much expectation and it can damage the social standing of the pupil in question, the precious psyche that comes from peer pressure as they grow to resent the one seemingly being favoured; too little input and the feeling of unworthiness hits home like a hammer on wood, the splinters and cracks are there forever.

Luce. Film Review. full post

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