Category Archives: Film

UFO. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, Ella Purnell, Benjamin Beatty, Cece Abbey, Davis Strathairn, Ken Early, Brian Bowman, Rick Chambers, Lu Parker, Khrys Styles, Ted J. Weil, A.J. Ransom, Katie Eichler, Sara Welch, David Heckel, Chauncey Ragland, Bradley Thomas.

We either fear the possibility of life on another planet and the concerns that might raise should they find a way to visit us, or we feel the pull of trepidation that exists because we suspect that we are alone in the universe; no matter which one that pulls your own strings more, it cannot be dismissed that there are an abundance of possible sightings of U.F.O.s, scorned and rejected by Government and official sources, and yet caught in camera by millions.

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(478 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

I Trapped The Devil. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Scott Poythress, A. J. Bowen, Susan Burke, Rowan Russell, John Marrott, Jocelin Donahue, Chris Sullivan, Aaron Larsen, Jack Vernon, Victoria Smith.

The Devil makes use of idle hands, but how many of us have ever thought of what we would do to the personification of evil if we found that we could capture and lock it away, if we could proclaim the worlds of immortality, I Trapped The Devil.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Tell It To The Bees. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger, Gregor Selkirk, Kate Dickie, Euan Mason, Lauren Lyle, Liam Meghan, Joanne Gallagher, Joni Samson, Isaac Jenkins, Farah Samson, Leo Hoyte-Egan, Emum Elliott, Sarah McCardie, Steven Robertson, Alexa Snell, Michael O’ Connor, Rebecca Hanssen, Tori Burgess, Ben Bradley, Declan Gemmell, Penny Sharp.

The birds and the bees, even in the second decade of the 21^st Century we are coy about any sexual act, one of passion and lust, one of caring and hidden; and yet for all our advancements as a society we still have the thoughts of repression and the unhappiness of how those who paved their own way in love were treated by society at large.

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

The Vanishing. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Connor Swindells, Gary Lewis, Ken Drury, Gary Kane, Emma King, Soren Malling, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Roderick Gilkison, John Taylor.

There are some jobs that feel as though they are built for the romantic, for the notion of what being alone with your thoughts can do, and the impact it will have on your soul; time apart from the rest of humanity, time spent with just yourself in command and with nothing to worry about except perhaps the demons waiting in the dark.

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

We Have Always Lived In The Castle. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Sebastian Stan, Crispin Glover, Paula Malcomson, Peter Coonan, Ian Toner, Joanne Crawford, Anna Nugent, Peter O’Meara, Luan James-Geary, Cormac Melia, Liz O’ Sullivan, Bosco Hogan, Stephen Hogan, Maria Doyle Kennedy.

A film that comes with no fanfare and preconceptions is almost always one that will have you fixated throughout, not because of its reliance on studio CGI or on the box office name that lights up the screen, but because of its simple and yet highly effective story-telling, the interest in the range of characters, and a small truth that must always be held in such circumstances, that life, for all its possibilities, is the ordinary given room to tell its tale.

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(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The Hummingbird Project. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Salem Hayek, Michael Mando, Johan Heldenbergh, Ayisha Issa, Mark Slacke, Sarah Goldberg, Frank Schorpion, Kwasi Songui, Conrad Pla, Julian Bailey, Jessica Greco, Robert Reynolds, Anna Maguire, Ryan Ali, Amada Silveria, Kaniehtiio Horn, Tyler Elliot Burke, Clara Nicholas, Bobo Vian, Igor Ovadis, Bonnie Mak, Bruce Dinsmore, Jonathan Dubsky, Anton Koval, Adam Bernett, Trinity Forrest, Nicholas Fransolet, Christian Jadah.

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

Pet Sematary. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jete Laurence, Hugo Lavoie, Lucas Lavoie, Obassa Ahmed, Alyssa Brooke Levine, Maria Herrera, Frank Schorpion, Linda E. Smith, Sonia Maria Chirila.

Fashion may come and go with ease; the popular movements soon give way to the unmistakable surge in new wave and the cycle repeats in perpetuity. It seems though, and for all the time that he has been credited as being the greatest horror writer in American history, that fashion via the medium of film and television is finally understanding just how powerful the name Stephen King is when his work is adapted with him in mind.

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

Gemini. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz, John Cho, Greta Lee, Ricki Lake, Michelle Forbes, Nelson Franklin, Reeve Carney, Jessica Parker Kennedy, James Ransone, Todd Louiso, Marianne Rendon, Juan Antonio, Abraham Lim, Gabreila Flores, Ted Stavros, Levy Tran.

The cult of celebrity is such that when an opportunity presents itself in which you can manipulate it to your own advantage and yet when found to be lying to the public, you can arrange an interview which whitewashes your sins and transgressions and the whole world will still love you. The ordinary citizen suffers under the weight of their choice and the sufferance of demonisation by their friends and loved ones, the celebrity weathers the storm and be applauded for their honesty, even in the face of murder.

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(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

November Criminals. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Ansel Elgort, Chloe Grace Moretz, David Strathairn, Catherine Keener, Terry Kinney, Cory Hadrict, Philip Ettinger, Danny Flaherty, Victor Williams, Opal Alladin, Tessa Albertson, Adrian M. Mompoint, Karina Deyko, Jared Kemp, Samuel Ray Gates, Rena Maliszewski, Pamela Lambert, Georgia Lyman, Jimi Stanton, Bruce-Robert Serafin, Tod Randolph, Celeste Oliva,Tom Kemp, Michael Christoforo, Freddie Wong.

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(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Rabid. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Laura Vandervoort, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Ted Atherton, Hanneke Talbot, Stephen Huszar, Mackenzie Gray, Stephen McHattie, Kevin Hanchard, Heidi von Palleske, Joel Labelle, C.M. Punk, Edie Inksetter, Tristan Risk, Sylvia Soska, Jen Soska, Vanessa Jackson, Joe Bostick, Troy James, Greg Bryk, Earl Bubba McLean Jr, A. J. Mendez, Dion Karas, Amanda Zhou, Lily Gao.

Disease is all the rage, especially the ones that brings human beings to the level of nothing more of the unthinking and savage, the brutal and the one that is driven by hunger. Disease is the great leveller and as what is on screen can mimic the daily survival of society, it seems only fair that cinema constantly finds new ways to remind the viewer of the fragility of human existence.

Rabid. Film Review. full post

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