Category Archives: Film

Under The Skin, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Jessica Mance, Krystof Hádek, Scott Dymond, Michael Moreland, Joe Szula, Adam Pearson, Lee Fanning, Alison Chand, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Jeremy McWilliams, Steve Keys, Andrew Gorman, Gerry Goodfellow.

Under The Skin will take thought and immense concentration to sit through but the result will be worth it as Director Jonathan Glazer leads a relatively unknown cast, bar of course the major star in the room, through a message laden era adaption of Michael Faber’s novel.

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

The Grand Budapest Hotel, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Tilda Swinton, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Defoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law,Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartman, Léa Seydoux, Tom Wilkinson.

Every story requires an author, the voice of reason, doubt, uncertainty, humour and charm in which capture every single element possible to make the listener pin back their ears and quietly contemplate what the creator is actually telling them. If every story expects a story teller then Wes Anderson should be the one to be involved at every point of the tale’s conception.

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

300: Rise Of An Empire, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headley, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro, Jack O’ Connell, Andrew Tiernan, Igal Naor, Andrew Pleavin, Ben Turner, Ashraf Barhom, Christopher Sciueref, Steven Cree, Caitlin Carmichael, Jade Chynoweth, Fred Ochs, Price Carson, John Michael Herndon, David Pevsner, Kevin Fry, David Sterne, Clive Sawyer, Christopher Boyer.

300: Rise Of An Empire, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool. full post

(610 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

Only Lovers Left Alive, Film Review. Fact Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Anton Yelchin, Jeffry Wright, Slimane Dazi, Carter Logan, Aureile Thpaut, Cody Stauber, Kamal Moumad, Yasmine Hamden, Ali Arnine.

Where else would you find vampires consorting with the great Kit Marlow, where a man who has lived for centuries has inspired and guided some of the great musicians in human history, where melancholy reigns with perverse glee and in which the layered messages of moral vampires go hand in hand with a judgement of humanity’s ever increasing faults but in the cinema.

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(545 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

The Book Thief, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Roger Allam, Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Heike Makatch, Julian Lehmann, Gotthard Lange, Rainer Reiners, Kirsten Block, Nico Liersch, Ludger Bökelmann, Paul Schaefer,  Nozomi Linus Kaisar, Oliver Stokowski, Robert Beyer, Hildegard Schroedter, Levin Liam, Ben Schnetzer, Sandra Nedeleff, Rafael Gareisen, Carl Heinz Choynski, Carina N. Wiese, Stephanie Stremler, Rainer Bock, Sebastian Hülk, Barbara Auer, Matthias Matschke, Jan Andres.

When Death speaks, it is wise to listen…

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(661 words, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)

The Dallas Buyers Club, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn, Dallas Roberts, Michael O’Neil, Denis O’Hare, Griffin Dune, John Tabler, Jane McNeill, James DuMont, Bradford Cox, Kevin Rankin, Lawrence Turner, Matthew Thompson, Adam Dunn, Ian Cassleberry.

A lot has been made of the fact that actor Matthew McConaughey lost an incredible amount of weight to portray foul mouthed, bull riding cowboy, AIDS sufferer Ron Woodruff in the film The Dallas Buyers Club that it almost seems to have detracted from the real point of an exceptionally made film. The redemption of a man from completely unlikeable, homophobic and intolerant person at the start to somebody you would be able to sit down and have a conversation with without wanting to take to task.

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

August: Osage County, Film Review. FACT Cinema.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepherd, Misty Upham.

August: Osage County, a beautiful, flat and hot place to visit but you wouldn’t want to be related a particular family that resides there.

When renowned published poet Beverly Weston decides to take his own life, the can of spiteful and mean-spirited worms come flooding out everywhere and into the lives of the family members left behind, chiefly in the viscous tongue of drug addicted cancer patient of his wife Violet Weston. Nobody is immune, and like a disease floating free in the air, multiplies and takes root in the actions of some of those around her until words are said that become too much to bear.

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(578 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Inside Llewyn Davis, Film Review. FACT Cinema.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake, F. Murray Abraham, Stark Sands, Jeanine Serralles, Adam Driver, Ethan Phillips, Alex Karpovsky, Max Casella, Benjamin Pike.

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(667 words, estimated 2:40 mins reading time)

The Three Musketeers, Film Review. (2011)

Originally published by L.S. Media November 2nd 2011

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Milla Jovovich, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Waltz, Mads Miikkleson, Gabriella Wilde, James Corden, Freddie Fox, Juno Temple, Til Schwiger, Carsten Norgaard.

 

It can’t be certain that Alexandre Dumas would have enjoyed it or quite understood what had happened to his tale of treachery, honour and sword fighting but in the latest movie adaptation of his novel The Three Musketeers comes around with frightening predictability but with the story bought up to date to meet the needs of a 21st Century audience.

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

The Wolf Of Wall Street, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau, Jean Dujardin, Joanna Lumley, Cristian Milioti, Christian Ebersole, Shea Whigham, Katarina Cas, P.J. Byrne, Kenneth Choi, Brian Sacca, Henry Zebrowski, Ethan Suplee, Barry Rothbart, Jake Hoffman, Madison McKinley, Spike Jonze, Bo Dietl.

The Wolf Of Wall Street, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool. full post

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