Category Archives: Film

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, Spencer Wilding, Will Irvine, Nicholas Blane, Bryan Larkin, Sarah Amankwah, Colin Carnegie, Georgia Landers, Sophia Nell Huntley, Clayton Grover, Bradley Cooper, Hayley-Marie Axe.

Dungeons & Dragons is a phenomenon of our time, more than a game, it is an icon, an industry masquerading as a competitive pastime. It is equally adored and derided, but there is no doubting the seriousness in which those who immerse themselves into the fortunes and constructed tales take as they don the imagination and furnish the creativity, and to those who watch from the sidelines, they cannot help themselves but wish to join in.

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

Oppenheimer. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes, Jason Clarke, Florence Pugh, Dane DeHaan, Kurt Koehler, Tony Goldwyn, John Gowans, Macon Blair, James D’Arcy, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Groener, Gregory Jbara, Ted King, Tim DeKay, Steven Houska, Tom Conti, David Krumholtz, Matthais Schweighöfer, Josh Hartnett, Alex Wolff, Josh Zuckerman, Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Hap Lawrence, Matthew Modine, Louise Lombard, Matt Damon, Jack Quaid, David Dastmaichian.

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(629 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Part One). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Frederick Schmidt, Mariela Garriga, Cary Elwes, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma.

You don’t escape from the rage of a volcano by standing still, you cannot avoid the avalanche by staring deep into the bleak white void as it hurtles towards you; and you don’t get to ignore the latest offering from the Mission Impossible franchise by declaring that it doesn’t appeal as an action film just because it is fronted by Tom Cruise.

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Part One). Film Review. full post

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

Don’t Worry Darling. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, Sydney Chandler, Kate Berlant, Asif Ali, Douglas Smith, Timothy Simons, Ari’el Stachel, Steve Berg, Daisy Sudeikis, Marcello Reves, Dita Von Teese.

Wouldn’t we all like to be happy and carefree, to see the world through the lens of contentment and satisfaction. The world at ease is attainable, but would we, like the passive Eloi that were food for the Morlocks in The Time Machine, soon be fodder for someone else appetite, not necessarily our flesh being consumed, but our minds, our souls, being stripped of anything that was fiercely individual, being human.

Don’t Worry Darling. Film Review. full post

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

To Catch A Killer. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Shailene Woodley. Ben Mendelsohn, Jovan Adepo, Ralph Ineson, Richard Zeman, Dusan Dukic, Jason Cavalier, Nick Walker, Darcy Laurie, Mark Camacho, Frank Schorpion, Marcello Bezina, Dawn Lambing, Martyne Musau, Michael Cram, Chip Chuipka, Heidi Foss, Michael Dozier, Mark Anthony Krupa, Rosemary Dunsmore, Lesley Pahl.

The thought is usually unsaid, the lips not wishing or willing to suggest or insist the terrible truth, that the lines between law and order are often blurred, clouded by the fact that the ones defending the thin blue line are as often or not just as capable of being the ones to whom mayhem and murder are just as appealing a prospect.

To Catch A Killer. Film Review. full post

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

Guardians Of The Galaxy: Vol .3. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Chukwudi Iwuji, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Pom Klementieff, Dave Buatista, Vin Diesel, Maria Bakalova, Sean Gunn, Will Poulter, Elizabeth Debicki, Sylvester Stallone, Linda Cardellini, Asim Chaudhry, Mikaela Hoover, Judy Greer, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Byron Davis, Molly C. Quinn.

From surprise smash hit to mainstay of the franchise, Guardians Of The Galaxy has done enough to be equal to many of the tales brought to life from the graphic novels of Marvel to the big screen, and perhaps in timely honour, it is only right that the final scenes, for now at least, have seen the mixed bag of characters endear themselves into the public perception.

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(591 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Confess, Fletch. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jon Hamm, Roy Wood Jr., Ayden Mayeri, Lorena Izzo, Kyle MacLachlan, Annie Mumolo, John Behlmann, Anna Osceola, John Slattery, Lucy Punch, Marcia Gay Harden, Robert Picardo, Eugene Mirman, Kenneth Kimmins, Caitlin Zerra Rose, Aaron Andrade, Travis Bennett, Nhumi Threadgill.

Fletch lived, briefly but with all the attention that Chevy Chase could muster in the two adaptions made for cinema when he was one of the undisputed kings of American film. Fletch lived, but cinema can be fickle, it can just as quickly destroy as it can create, and after 1989’s Fletch Lives became but a distant memory there was probably no hope that Gregory McDonald’s popular creation would project its neo-noir investigative detective would be back to confront the sins of those without a sense of humour again.

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

The Old Way. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Nicholas Cage, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Noah Le Gros, Philip Aguirre, Clint Howard, Katelyn Bauer, Abraham Benrubi, Nick Searcy, Dean Armstrong, Everett Blunck, Brett Donowho, Shiloh Fernandez, Corby Griesenbeck, Boyd Kestner, Kerry Knuppe, Adam Lazarre-White, Beau Linnell, Jeff Medley, Joe Pepper, Craig Bramham, Eddie Spears, Skyler Stone.

Seeking revenge for a perceived wrong in childhood is a powerful emotion that runs arguably deeper than that which inflicts itself on that of an older man or woman, both states of the human experience run true, both leave their mark on the psyche, but that which leaves its scars in youth is harder to supress and conceal than that which occurs in middle age.

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(551 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Beast. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Idris Elba, Leah Jeffries, Iyana Halley, Sharlto Copley, Liyabuya Gongo, Martin Munro, Daniel Hadebe, Thapelo Sebogodi, Chris Langa, Mduduzi Mavimbela, Chris Gxalaba, Kazi Khuboni, Tafara Nyatsanza, Ronald Mikwanazi, Naledi Mogadime, Thabo Rametsi.

A film that divides is prosperous indeed, and whilst Beast is not the greatest film of all time, what it lacks in agility and convincing CGI/acting, it more than makes up for in its environmental message. A film that produces empathy and disgust at the actions of a part of humanity driven by destruction, deserves more praise than it has received so far.

Beast. Film Review. full post

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

My Neighbour Adolf. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Hayman, Udo Kier, Olivia Silhavy, Kineret Peled, Jaime Correa, Tomasz Sobczak, Danharry Colorado.

How would you react if you came face to face with your worst nightmare, with the face of pure evil; especially when you had been led to believe that the person on question was found dead, killed by their own hand many years before.

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