Tag Archives: Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T. Liverpool.

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 8.5/10

Cast: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Rebecca Root, Allison Tolman, Ruger Hauer, Carol Kane, Patrice Cossonneau, David Gasman, Lenuta Bala, Ian Reddington, Aldo Maland, Theo Exarchopoulos, Sean Duggan, Raymond Waring, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Gerard Cooke, Frederic Siuen, Trevor Allan Davies.

The Western was arguably a victim of its own success and the realisation that it held no meaning in an age where certain moments of history were being subject to closer and rightful scrutiny; the gung-ho feel of the interpreted hero and fatalism of the native American’s story not being considered beyond anything other than the role of the villain all combining to make The Western distasteful, to leave a sense of lies captured in the story.

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

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

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Ninja, Yo-Landi Visser, Hugh Jackman, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver, Brandon Auret, Johnny Selema, Anderson Cooper, Maurice Carpede, Jason Cope, Kevin Otto, Chris Shields, Robert Hobbs, Eugene Khumbanyiwa.

There are many ways to exercise demons, especially when it has been an unfathomable monster such as the political system in South Africa which denied basic rights to the overwhelming majority in a country that has thankfully started to reap the seeds sown by Nelson Mandela.  It is how you represent those demons in a modern context that makes a film shine.

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

(602 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Marco Rodriguez, Riz Ahmed, James Huang, Michael Papajohn, Kent Shocknek, Pat Harvey, Sharon Tay, Rick Garcia, Leah Fredkin, Bill Seward, Rick Chambers, Jonny Coyne, Kiff VandenHeuve, Price Carson, Michael Hyatt, Ann Cusack.

“On television, it all looks so real” – the damning words of a high functioning sociopath in charge of a camera or the unhinged thoughts of those who peddle the images in which gore, distress and the unfamiliar suffering directly into the world’s living rooms under the designation of news but in many cases is the cold white furnace that fuels a disturbing and unavoidable thriller.

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

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