Tag Archives: Christina Ricci

Yellowjackets: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Sophie Néilsse, Nicole Maines, Elijah Wood, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Alexa Barajas, Luciano Leroux, Mya Lowe, Ella Purnell, Sarah Desjardins, Jane Widdop, Alex Wyndham, Rukiya Bernard, Aiden Stoxx, Simone Kessell, Lauren Ambrose, Nia Sondaya, Rekha Sharma, Nuha Jes Izman, John Reynolds, Jeff Holman.

Television series come and go with alarming ferocity, and to be caught in its glare for more than one series is to admit in modern terms that there is a seismic appreciation for the tale being played out for the benefit of the viewer.

Yellowjackets: Series Two. Television Review. full post

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

Yellowjackets. Series One. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Alexa Barajas, Mya Lowe, Ella Purnell, Sarah Desjardins, Jane Widdop, Alex Wyndham, Rukiya Bernard, Aiden Stoxx, Keeya King, Rekha Sharma, Peter Gadiot, Princess Davis, Jeff Holman, Andres Soto, Jack DePew.

Yellowjackets. Series One. Television Drama Review. full post

(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Monstrous. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christina Ricci, Santino Barnard, Don Baldaramos, Colleen Camp, Lew Temple, Carol Anne Watts, Jennifer Novak Chun, Peter Hodge, Nick Vallelonga, Sally Elbert, Lola Grace, Rachael Edlow, Darin Cooper, Aimey Beer, Neraida Bega, Philip V. Bruenn, Matt Lovell, Nancy O’ Fallon, Chris Mullinax, Anjoum Agrama, Olivia Reid, Kathy Sue Holtorf.

The very act of being part of, or witnessing, a traumatic event is such that for those who live through it, the mind will do whatever it can to protect them from the images, the constant emotional distress that will creep into their lives when they least expect it, or the triggers that will accumulate and cause the brain to fracture, to cause a schism that will separate truth from fiction.

Monstrous. Film Review. full post

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

The Matrix: Resurrections. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 5/10

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff, Jessica Henwick, Neil Patrick Harris, Jada Pinkett Smith, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Christina Ricci, Lambert Wilson, Andrew Lewis Caldwell, Toby Onwumere, Max Riemelt, Joshua Grothe, Brian J. Smith, Eréndira Ibarra, Michael X. Sommers.

The Matrix trilogy can be seen truly as a cultural phenomenon; admittedly one that was at its peak in the first of the films delivered to a film loving crowd wowed by its cinematography and effects, but still a series of films that asked questions of our perceived vision of reality, and how we were, and continue, to be enveloped by the idea of being repressed by a superior mind just to appear that we are indeed in control of our own destiny.

The Matrix: Resurrections. Film Review. full post

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