Category Archives: Film

Incredibles 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Vowell, Huck Milner, Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener, Brad Bird, Jonathan Banks, Michael Bird, Sophia Bush, Phil LaMarr, Paul Eiding, Isabella Rossellini, Bill Save, John Ratzenburger, Barry Bostwick, Jere Burns, Adam Rodriguez, Kimberly Adair Clark, Usher.

Heroes never die, they just become engrained into the picture, drawn from the world and to face obscurity, a faded hope that slowly gets replaced by the champion in which the world at that time deserves.

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

Skyscrapper. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Pablo Schreiber, Chin Han, Roland Moller, Noah Taylor, Byron Mann, Pable Schreiber, Hannah Quinlivan, Kevin Rankin, Elfina Luk, Adrian Holmes.

If you are going to make a film that takes the very best ideas of two cinema classics then not only do you have to own that decision, but you must ensure it works phenomenally well, that there is room for the film to become its own stand out feature, and not just a hybrid that people will reflect upon throughout their time in front of the screen.

Skyscrapper. Film Review. full post

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

Adrift. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Thomas, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Grace Palmer, Kael Damlamian, Siala Tunoka, Luna Campbell, Zac Beresford.

There will always be those that decry the nature of heroism, citing their disdain as folly those who see the world as a place in which to seek out the new, the challenges, they shout the idea of recklessness as if it was not in our nature to explore, to push our bodies to the limits, and the mind just that little further onwards.

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(465 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Tag. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ed Helms, Lil Rel Howery, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Isla Fisher, Hannibal Buress, Nora Dunn, Steve Berg, Leslie Bibb, Rashida Jones, Indiana Sifuentes, Trayce Malachi, Jock McKissic, Thomas Middleditch.

We should never grow tired of being able to remember what it was to be carefree, of playing a game that would keep us on our toes and sharpens our wits, that made us become friends with those that we might see as different, more passionate and creatively devilish, than any of those that we come into contact later in life with. If we cannot play then how do we grow, the dull routine of staid and affected boredom is not one we should ever fall into, we should retain the sparkle of childhood, of those teenager years when someone slapped you on the back and run off claiming you were it.

Tag. Film Review. full post

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

Mary Magdalene. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Rooney Mara, Joaquin Pheonix, Chiwetel Ejiofer, Tahar Rahim, Ariane Labad, Denis Menochet, Lubna Azabal, Tcheky Karyo, Charles Babalola, Wawfeek Barhom, Ryan Corr, Uri Gavriel, Shira Haas, Tsahi Haevi, Michael Moshonov, David Schofield, Irit Sheleg, Jules Sitruk, Zohar Shtrauss, Lior Raz, Hadas Yaron, Roy Assaf, Valentina Carelutti.

Written history is the by-product of agenda, especially when someone’s legal observance is shouted down by a system that wants to subjugate and put the masses into place. Tell someone enough times that they don’t matter, exclude them, or worse, paint them in the tones of the aggressor, the liar, or the one whose words are based on the derogatory, then history is not only celebrated by the winner, it is a falsehood designed to keep everyone in their place.

Mary Magdalene. Film Review. full post

(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Happy Prince. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Chancellor, Edwin Thomas, Beatrice Dalle, Julian Wadham, John Standing, Andre Penvern, Tom Colley, Stephen M. Gilbert, Alister Cameron, Benjamin Voisin, Antonio Spagnuolo, Franca Abategiovanni, Joshua McGuire, Ronald Pickup.

It takes a fearless and heroic person to bring a legend to the screen, to attempt, to undoubtedly crack, the enigma that lay behind their story, be it in the fascinating, gruesome, indecorous or the beautiful; or in the case of one of the more celebrated writers of the time, Oscar Wilde. It could be argued that all four states of human feeling and postured masks can be seen than in perhaps anybody else who strode across the world’s stage in an era which was harsh, unforgiving, brutal and by today’s standards ruthlessly riddled with toxic masculinity.

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(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Ted Levine, Jeff Goldblum, Toby Jones, James Cromwell, B D Wong, Rafe Spall, Daniella Pineda, Justice Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Peter Jason, Robert Emms, Isabella Sermon.

By taking the beast out of its environment you increase the terror, you bring the creature into the home, you escalate the fear and by bringing that monster into one small, almost perfect, bedroom, where everything is neat, where everything is in its natural place and ordered, you have the makings of something that makes the imagination run wild, that makes the latest in the Jurassic Park/World series so much darker, so more in tune with the modern world and the debate of the human factor in the destruction of the eco system.

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

Solo: A Star Wars Story. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Paul Bettany, Jon Favreau, Linda Hunt, Joonas Suotamo, Ian Kenny, Anthony Daniels, John Tui, Warwick Davis, Erin Kellyman, Ray Park.

It is perhaps impossible to capture the essence of what makes a screen legend in a particularly iconic role; the one in which they not only ran with across four different films in a much-loved film series, but to whom in many ways was the absolute star, the one to whom the kids loved and the one that others admired. To try and do so would be reckless folly, and yet every hero needs their backstory told, every past needs to be explored and that of Han Solo is no exception.

Solo: A Star Wars Story. Film Review. full post

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

On Chesil Beach, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Samuel West, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough, Rasmus Hardiker, Bebe Cave, Jonjo O’Neill.

Time and sensitivity are not natural bed fellows, neither is truly mature enough to handle each other’s whims, demands or spoilt child like behaviour when the going gets tough; it takes a writer of delicate persuasion in which to capture the beauty in heartache and the sudden fall of a relationship which had been so clear before.

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

Deadpool 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Josh Brolin, Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Zazie Beetz, Brianna Hildebrand, Brad Pitt, Bill Skarsgård, Matt Damon, T.J.Miller, Terry Crews, Rob Delaney, Alan Tudyk, Julian Dennison, Lewis Tan, Jack Kesy, Eddie Marsan, Shioli Kutsuna, Hayley Sales, Stefan Kapicic, Karan Soni, Sala Baker, Nicholas Hoult, James McAvoy, Evan Peters, Tye Sheridan.

In the land of the sequel, the audience is normally attuned to the fact that by and large the film will be below par, sometimes disastrously with a plot that was based on profit potential, sometimes just out of plain high expectation, but the result will be the same, that like most films, the sequel is never in the same class as the original.

Deadpool 2. Film Review. full post

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