Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Gideon Adlon, Bethlehem Million, Dylan Sprayberry, Marc Menchaca, Jane Adams, Joel Courtney, Chris Reid, Duane Stephens, Logan Murphy.
The inevitability of it all is such that not even a pandemic can stop the forces of a home invasion film revolving around the descent of grief and the need for revenge.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *
Cast: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alex Essoe, Franco Nero, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, Laural Marsden, Cornell John, Ryan O’Grady, Ralph Ineson.
All the devils are here…or as cinema would have you believe.
The fact that William Friedkin’s 1973 classic The Exorcist is lauded as highly as it should not be seen as an open door for others to attempt to match its ferocity of film making in a subject matter that leaves little to the imagination and at times a bad taste in the mouth as its religious fervour is one of corruptibility in the face of cinematic dogma.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Kaitlyn Dever, Jack Duhame, Lauren Murray, Geraldine Singer, Dane Rhodes, Daniel Rigamer, Dari Lynn, Evangeline Rose, Elizabeth Kaluev.
Everything can be an allegory if you look deep enough for it.
It seems obvious to state that as we look for meaning in between the lines of every part of human life, experience, and words maybe bandied around in jest, but the symbolic metaphor can be found residing, breathing, thriving, in all pieces of art, but when you see it unfold in a way that leaves you breathless, that requires such a barren landscape of vocalised expression to engage the viewer with an abundant brilliance…then you know how deeply the writer has given to metaphor.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’ Shae Jackson Jr., Ray Liotta, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Brooklynn Prince, Christian Convery, Margo Martindale, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kristofer Hivju, Hannah Hoekstra, Ayoola Smart, Aaron Holiday, J.B. Moore, Leo Hanna, Kahyun Kim, Scott Seiss, Matthew Rhys, Shane Connellan, Conor Lambert, George Kerslake, Allan Henry.
Thanks to the internet we can allow ourselves to feel our mouth drop in astonishment as we watch footage of humans find ways to embarrass themselves when in the habitat and space of the natural world. People who wonder why they cannot just suddenly break years of sensible thought by cuddling a wild animal and then being pecked at, limbs possibly broken, or even mauled to death because they suddenly believe that they will not be harmed in the process.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chase Dillon, Jared Leto, J.R. Adduci, Creek Wilson, Ben Bladon, Lindsay Lamb, Charity Jordan, Fedor Steer, Terence Rosemore, Mike Benitez, Erika Coleman, Hasan Minhaj.
A good ghost story will lead you to a place where the heart embraces the spectacular and appreciate the fine line between the living and the dead.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King, Brian Dare.
Laudable, proof on intent, utilising the very best aspects of humanity placed in a terrible situation where the audience understands the race against time and Armageddon, and yet 65, despite the dinosaur and meteor CGI, finds itself in the realm of the big feature film excess that falls unfortunately under the weight of expectation.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Kelly Reilly, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Riccardo Scamarcio, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Amir El-Masry, Ferando Piloni, Lorenzo Acquaviva, David Menkin, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Rowen Robinson, Emma Laird, Vanessa Ifediora, Kyle Allen, Ali Khan, Esther Rae Tillotson, Winnie Soldi.
Agatha Christie is the queen of crime, but even those of literary royal blood must admit that there is a period of time in their career that just doesn’t align itself to any other; and the longer the reign, the more likely it is to be at the final curtain that the illumination starts to fade; literature aping real life as the spell can be, hopefully not broken, but perhaps witnessed for what it is; a last hurrah of a genius mind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Grint, Abby Quinn, Kristen Cui, McKenna Kerrigan, Ian Merrill Peakes, Denise Nakano, Rose Luardo, Billy Vargus, Satomi Hofmann, Kevin Leung, Lee Avant, Odera Adimorah, Kat Murphy, Kittson O’Neill, Lya Yanne, M. Night Shyamalan, Clare Louise Frost, Hanna Gaffney, Monica Fleurette, Saria Chen.
M Night Shyamalan’s career has been one of extraordinary highs, and even when the film he is connected with has only found an average basis with the crowds, it seems to be one that still finds a way to resonate with the unnerving and the memory of what can leave the audience and watcher alike with a trepidation of the twist that comes in the final moment.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Courtey Cox, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Hayden Panettiere, Mason Gooding, Roger Jackson, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Champion, Josh Segarra, Liana Liberato, Devyn Nekoda, Skeet Ulrich, Tony Revolori, Samara Weaving.
Just when you think that the Scream franchise cannot go any bigger, cannot pull you in anymore, Scream VI comes along and blows your mind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Elena Kampouris, Doran Bell, Agam Darshi, Alix Villaret, Fletcher Donovan, Sara Sampaio, Rachelle Goulding, Caitlin Stryker, C.J. Perry Barnyashev, Claire Friesen, Stephen Lobo, Sean Yves Lessard, Sari Mercer, Chezca Vega, Bradley Stryker, Stuart James, Steve Weller, Miranda Edwards.
A.I. is the technology to which will arguably divide people’s opinions more than almost anything in the very near future; and whilst the full implication is not yet realised on how we accommodate the rise of the machine in daily life, whether it will aid us or hinder, be a positive or herald the destruction of humanity as we perceive it, can no longer be swept aside as a discussion.