Category Archives: Film

In The Heart Of The Sea, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley, Tom Holland, Paul Anderson, Frank Dillane, Joseph Mawle, Edward Ashley, Sam Keeley, Osy Ikhile, Gary Beadle, Jamie Sives, Morgan Chetcuti, Charlotte Riley, Nicholas Jones, Donald Sumpter, Richard Bremmer, Jordi Mollà, Victor Solé, Nordin Aoures, Santi López, Christian Esquivel, Harry Jardine, Jamie Michie, Andy Wareham, Mark Southworth, Frans Huber, Christopher Keegan, Stephanie Jacob, Kierron Quest, Michael Cronin, Martin Wilde, Nick Tabone, Luca Tosi.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Krampus, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner, Alison Tolman, Conchata Ferrell, Stafania LaVie Owen, Emjay Anthony, Krista Stadler, Mark Atkin, Trevor Bau, Gideon Emery, Maverick Flack, Sophie Gannon, Felicity Hamill.

If only the list that Santa Claus made, dividing the world into who was naughty and who was nice, actually applied to the world of cinema also. If it did that weaving of Christmas spirit and forceful animosity on the theatres of each and every city then perhaps studios might think twice about making such films as Krampus, or at least find way to portray them in a better light.

Krampus, Film Review. full post

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

Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Harrison Ford, Daisy Riley, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, Gwendoline Christie, Mark Hamill, Billie Lourd, Peter Mayhew, Simon Pegg, Kenny Baker, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Anthony Daniels, Max Von Sydow, Greg Grunberg, Ken Leung.

Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Victor Frankenstein, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Freddie Fox, Daniel Mays, Spencer Wilding, Callum Turner, Louise Brealey, Charles Dance, Alistair Petrie, Mark Gatiss, Guillaume Delaunay.

All stories have a beginning, some are forged in the deep recesses of the imagination and some are taken to added upon, made more user friendly for a modern audience who might conceive that the birth of a famous monster should have more to it than meets the initial eye. A succession of films have alluded to the question, one successfully so, but it falls to the screen play writer Max Landis to ask the question outright, just who really was the monster in the marvellous Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein?

Victor Frankenstein, Film Review. full post

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

Bridge Of Spies, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Scott Shepherd, Amy Ryan, Eve Hewson, Austin Stowell, Jesse Plemons, Will Rogers, Sebastian Koch, Dakin Matthews, Edward James Hyland, Mikhail Gorevoy, Joshua Harto, Domenick Lombardozzi, Victor Verhaeghe, Rebekah Brockman.

If a film can offer a lesson to be learned, if it can open a window, no matter how small, into a world where the sheer grasp of enlightenment can be gleaned and nurtured, then that film has succeeded where so many have failed.

Bridge Of Spies, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Carol, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Sarah Paulson, John Magaro, Cory Michael Smith, Kevin Crowley, Nik Pajic, Carrie Brownstein, Trent Rowland.

Such was the shape of the world in the 1950s that it was easier to mention in homes up and down the American political highway the issues surrounding Communism than it was to talk openly about the love shared between two women, that the so-called threat of Communism could be seen as a driving force of debate and yet to be a lesbian was something that was swept under so many carpets that it enjoyed an abundance of innuendo and implication.

Carol, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Black Mass, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, David Harbour, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll, Julianne Nicholson, Juno Temple, W. Earl Brown, Bill Camp, Mark Mahoney, Brad Carter, Scott Anderson, Lonnie Farmer, Erica McDermott, Owen Burke, Lewis D. Wheeler.

There are films which have the audience hanging on the edge of their seats and usually they are for their sheer scope and vision they offer the cinematic screen. They do not normally have the truth of America’s dirty laundry being aired in public or the realisation that somewhere in the U.K. or any other country the underworld is not just in bed with law and order but the relationship is consensual and without the use of protection.

Black Mass, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(509 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

The Dressmaker, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook, Judy Davies, Caroline Goodall, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Gyton Grantley, Shane Bourne, Barry Otto, Sacha Horler, Julia Blake, Shane Jacobson, Hayley Magnus, Alison Whyte, Geneviève Lemon, Terry Norris, Amanda Woodhams, Olivia Sprague, Mark Leonard Winter, Rachael Lorenz, Darcey Wilson, Rory Potter, Tracy Harvey, Roy Barker, Gregory Quinn, Simon Maiden, Grace Rosebirch, Lucy Moir, Jordan Mifsud, Sage Barreda.

There is nothing like watching elegant revenge on the big screen to stir the soul into believing that those who were mistreated by society will ultimately walk away with their heads held high and in fashionable taste.

The Dressmaker, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Steve Jobs, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslett, Seth Rogan, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, Katherine Waterston, Perla Haney-Jardine, Sarah Snook, John Ortiz, Adam Shapiro, John Steen, Stan Roth, Mihran Slougian, Robert Anthony Peters, Noreen Lee, Gail Fenton.

There is no doubt that Steve Jobs was magnetic personality, that the brains behind some of the ideas of personal computing of the last 40 years have his own indelible stamp upon them and that whilst being deeply flawed, as all reasonable people are apt to be, Danny Boyle’s biopic of the man behind Apple somehow manages to leave the casual viewer feeling aloof and disconnected from the subject at hand.

Steve Jobs, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Willow Shields, Sam Claflin, Elizabeth Banks, Mahershala Ali, Jena Malone, Jeffrey Wright, Paula Malcomson, Stanley Tucci, Natalie Dormer, Eugenie Bondurant, Wes Chatham, Elden Henson, Evan Ross.

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(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)