Category Archives: Film

Zombieland: Double Tap. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Zoey Deutch, Avan Jogia, Rosario Dawson, Luke Wilson, Thomas Middleditch, Victoria Hall, Victor Riveria.

Zombies are big business, the walking dead have a licence to print money, they are a psychologists dream of interpretation and they have the unnerving ability to project a fear into us that perhaps goes beyond that of any real plague we might determine being set loose on the world; in short, zombies, it seems, can do no wrong, especially for television and certainly not for cinema.

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

Joker. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Marc Maron, Frances Conroy, Shae Whigham, Brett Cullen, Douglas Hodge, Dante Pereira-Olson, Bill Camp, Glenn Fleshler, Josh Pais.

If comedy has become a matter for the subjective disguised as hate or even animosity that has been disguised by the mask of envy then so has all art forms, from the video game, to the novel and onwards to the relative study of looking back at an old master’s work of art, for some now is not a means of expression but a chance to decry and even destroy something without really looking at it with an eye of understanding. It is in this that the joke perhaps has become a by-word for abuse, and that the Joker is nothing more than evil dressed up in outlandish rags and a symbol of modern sickness.

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(739 words, estimated 2:57 mins reading time)

Roger Waters: Us And Them. Film Review.

Liverpool sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The arena show is one where the Rock gig transforms into the spectacular, and if done with a sense of thought can be the point where an audiences’ eyes are collectively opened. Whilst a performance in a smaller venue will always feel intimate, an experience that is captured in the close up and detail, the arena show delves into the psyche as one might feel if they were so inclined to look upon as comparable to the preacher engaging with the masses, every nuance and word delivered greeted with a cry of hallelujah and amen.

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

Good Boys. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon, Molly Gordon, Midori Francis, Izaac Wang, Millie Davis, Josh Caras, Will Forte, Mariessa Portlance, Lil Rel Howery, Retta, Michaela Watkins, Stephen Merchant, Christian Darrel Scott, Macie Juiles, Chance Hurstfield, Enid-Raye Adams, Craig Haas, Benita Ha, Alexander Calvert.

It is in the naivety and innocence of the young that we perhaps see the wisdom to come, and nothing really touches the experience of the one to whom youthful embarrassment and exuberance has been visited upon, for in that moment comes learning, of realisation that you cannot remain a child, or even a teenager, forever.

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(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

It: Chapter 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgard, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransome, Andy Bean, Jaeden Martell, Wyatt Oleff, Jack Dylan Grazer, Finn Wolfhard, Sopia Lillis, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Teach Grant, Nicholas Hamilton, Javier Botet, Xavier Dolan, Taylor Frey, Molly Atkinson, Joan Gregson, Stephen Bogaert, Luke Roessler,  Stephen King, Peter Bogdanovich, Will Beinbrink, Jess Weixler, Martha Girvin, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Jackson Robert Scott, Jake Weary, Katie Lunman, Kelly Van der Burg, Jason Fuchs, Joe Bostick, Megan Charpentier, Juno Rinaldi, Neil Crone, Ry Prior, Owen Teague.

It: Chapter 2. Film Review. full post

(708 words, estimated 2:50 mins reading time)

The Informer. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Ana de Armas, Rosamund Pike, Joel Kinnaman, Clive Owen, Common, Ruth Bradley, Arturo Castro, Sam Spruell, Nasir Jama, Martin McCann, Jenna Willis, Eugene Lipinski, Edwin De La Renta, Karma Meyer, Alex Ziwak, Scott Anderson, Charles Mnene, Miroslaw Haniszewski, Victor Yarbrough, Alphonso Austin, Peter Coe, Lena Kaminsky, Daniel Duru.

Doing the right thing can quite often get you into more trouble than those who sit back and play hard and fast with regulations and common decency; no matter what the situation and how you may have saved a certain event from blowing out of all control, potentially saving lives in the process, there will always be those that will look down upon you and plot their revenge on your name and character.

The Informer. Film Review. full post

(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Julia Butters, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Mike Moh, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Al Pacino, Nicholas Hammond, Samantha Robinson, Rafal Zawierucha, Lorenza Izzo, Costa Ronin, Damon Herriman, Lena Dunham, Madisen Beaty, Mikey Madison, James Landrey Hebert, Maya Hawke, Victoria Pedretti, Sydney Sweeney, Harley Quinn Smith, Dallas Jay Hunter, Kansas Bowling, Parker Love Bowling, Cassidy Hice, Ruby Rose Skotchdopole, Danielle Harris, Josephine Valentina Clark, Scoot McNairy, Dreama Walker, Rachel Redleaf. Rebecca Rittenhouse, Rumer Willis.

 

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(647 words, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)

Blinded By The Light. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Neera Ganatra, Aaron Phagura, Dean-Charles Chapman, Nikita Mehta, Nell Williams, Tara Divina, Rob Brydon, Frankie Fox, Hayley Atwell, Sally Phillips.

For anyone who was a teenager during the 1980s it can seem that the labelled term of Generation X is perhaps more acute than other, the era of decline, few opportunities, spiralling unemployment, the world no longer an oyster, instead it was the dead end to which the feeling of alienation, guilt, rage and regret were all summed up as the keepers of the social flux, in which society changed and they had no choice but to rebel and move away from the expected dreams of their parents before them.

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(652 words, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

Film Review. The Current War.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Tom Holland, Katherine Waterston, Tuppence Middleton, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Macfadyen, Damien Molony, Craig Conway, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Simon Kunz, John Schwab, Amy Marston, Woody Norman, Celyn Jones, Colin Stinton, Conor MacNeil, Simon Manyonda, Joseph Balderrama, Tom Bell, Evy Frearson.

 

The race to be remembered for one’s achievements is one that normally never truly won, it can also be one that causes a degree of self-harm on the protagonist, especially when it drives them to the point of exhaustion, and the possibility of neglecting loved ones and the thoughts of the wider community.

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

Film Review. Horrible Histories: The Movie-Rotten Romans.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Sebastian Croft, Emilia Jones, Nick Frost, Craig Roberts, Kate Nash, Kim Cattrall, Derek Jacobi, Rupert Graves, Warwick Davis, Alexander Armstrong, Kevin Bishop, Alex MacQueen, Lee Mack, Chris Addison, Ella Smith, Sanjeev Bhasker, Tony Way, Lucy Montgomery, Tony Gardner, Ben Ashenden, Samantha Spiro, Katy Wix.

 

Film Review. Horrible Histories: The Movie-Rotten Romans. full post

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