Category Archives: Film

Immaculate. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Emile Hirsch, Kate Bosworth, Ashley Greene, M. Emmett Walsh, Alex Sgambati, Oliver Moore, Tiffany Smith, Joel David Moore, Gianna Wichelow.

We all have our price, we all have that one figure in our minds in which a stranger could offer us the kind of escapist fantasy in which we come out on top; not quite a deal with the Devil, but a transaction with burdened peace, an arrangement that will test our nerve and the construct of what we perceive as reality.

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(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

The Batman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, John Turturro, Andy Serkis, Peter Sarsgaard, Jayme Lawson, Gil Perez-Abraham, Peter McDonald, Con O’ Neill, Alex Ferns, Rupert Penry-Jones, Kosha Engler, Barry Keoghan, Sandra Dickinson.

Every generation has its Batman. Every generation around it could find fault with the portrayal, only as with the divisive nature of religion, there are too many gods in which to hoist your devotion and understanding too. Better it seems is to acknowledge that each interpretation is but a part of a whole, take what you want from it, leave good karma, and revel in perhaps one of graphic novel and comic history’s finest ever creations.

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

Disenchanted. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Maya Rudolph, Gabriella Baldacchino, Rachel Duff, James Marsden, Idina Menzel, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jayma Mays, Kolton Stewart, Oscar Nuñez, Alan Tudyk, Griffin Newman, Brooke Josephson, Mila Jackson, Lara Jackson, Eimear Morrissey.

It is the way of the modern world; a studio realises they have a cinematic hit on their hands and quickly takes steps to rush out a sequel. A couple of quick years pass, and the movie is almost seamless, the succession soon passed down, and before you know it you have a franchise on your hands. It is understandable, and whilst commercial capitalism is unhealthy, it does allow the viewer to keep the story in their minds, to keep it fresh, and not allow the tale on screen to become stagnant.

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(576 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

The Northman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Elliott Rose, Willem Dafoe, Phill Martin, Eldar Skar, Olwen Fouéré, Edgar Abram, Jack Gassman, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Oscar Novak, Jack Walsh, Björk, Ian Whyte, Katie Pattinson, Andrea O’Neill, Rebecca Ineson, Katie Dickie, Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney, Kevin Horsham, Seamus O’ Hara, Scott Sinclair, Tadhg Murphy, James Yates, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Ian Gerard Whyte, Ralph Ineson, Murray McArthur, Nille Glæsel, Jonas Lorentzen, Magne Osnes, Ineta Sliuzaite, Finn Lafferty, Jon Campling, Helen Roche, Faoileann Cunningham, Gareth Parker, Mark Fitzgerald, Gavin Peden, Eric Higgins, Matt Symonds.

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(574 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Morbius. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Al Madrigal, Zaris-Angel Hator, Joe Ferrara, Charlie Shotwell, Joseph Esson, Michael Keaton, Corey Johnson, Joanna Burnett.

To the casual observer the adaptations of graphic novels to the large screen has become an avalanche that shows no sign of slowing down, to the seasoned watcher, it is near impossible to relay the fact that the studios and directors, the script writers, and the producers, have barely got started yet.

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(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

See How They Run. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, Harris Dickinson, Pearl Chanda, Adrien Brody, David Oyelowo, Ruth Wilson, Reece Shearsmith, Charlie Cooper, Tim Key, Sian Clifford, Angus Wright, Shirley Henderson, Lucien Msamati, Paul Chahidi, Kieran Hodgson, Gregory Cox, Maggie McCarthy, Olver Jackson, Tomi Ogbaro, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Ania Marson, Philip Desmeules, Laura Morgan, Pippa-Bennett-Warner, Tolu Ogunmefun.

See How They Run. Film Review. full post

(571 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Sonic The Hedgehog 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: James Marsden. Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter, Idris Elba, Adam Pally, Shemar Moore, Lee Majdoub, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, Melody Nosipho Niemann, Tom Butler, Brad Kalilmoku, Krista Alvarez, Donna Jay Fulks, Elizabeth Bowen.

You can’t keep a good hedgehog down, and even if it is only for nostalgia’s sake, the name of Sonic is one that, like the Duracell Bunny, seems to keep going, and going…until, well you get the picture.

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

Uncharted. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali, Tati Gabreille, Steven Waddington, Pingi Moli, Tiernan Jones, Rudy Pankow, Jesús Evita, Georgia Goodman, Joseph Balderrama, Manuel de Blas.

For many, film and video games are now interchangeable, one pushes the other onwards, they are the same behemoth just with different pasts driving them; and for others it is a tangled web, one designed for a generation that perhaps has not explored the rich history that has placed cinema at the head of entertaining and educating millions of people since it first gained reverence as the peak of the visual art form and remained so until its more agnostic sibling, television, stole its pace in the habits of billions.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jeon Jong-Seo, Kate Hudson, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein, Evan Whitten, Lauren Bowles, Serene Lee, Cory Roberts, Kyler Porche, Michael Carollo, Anthony Reynolds, Jennifer Vo, Altonio Jackson, Donna Duplantier, Rosha Washington, Joshua Shane Brooks, Tiffany Black, Amy Le, Mia Tillman, Renell Gibbs, Sylvia Grace Crim, Janes W. Evermore, Colby Boothman, Kent Shocknek, Ritchie Montgomery.

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(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Scream (2022). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Melissa Barrera, Jack Quaid, Mikey Madison, Jenny Ortega, Dylan Minnette, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Sonia Ammar, Marley Shelton, Skeet Ulrich, Kyle Gallner, Chester Tam, Reggie Conquest, Heather Matarazzo, Brooke Barnhill, Stephen West-Rogers, Milli M, Roger Jackson.

It is only when you re-immerse yourself back into the realm of previous encounters that you witness just how much of it was for your benefit, the sense that the scene before you taking place was possibly scripted, that you were fooled into believing one thing, when in actual fact the opposite was the true course of action taken; it is enough to make you scream time after time, but one that is of anguished understanding rather than let down annoyance.

Scream (2022). Film Review. full post

(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)