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The Hateful Eight, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Coggins, Demien Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, James Parks, Channing Tatum, Dana Gourrier, Zoë Bell, Lee Horsley, Gene Jones, Keith Jefferson, Craig Stark, Belinda Owino.

Not so much a Western, but a murder mystery wrapped in the backdrop of post civil-war America and into which the bleakness of the situation, the desperation of the unfolding events will have many surely comparing Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film, The Hateful Eight in no small measure to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None or any derivation of the name.

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(400 words, estimated 1:36 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.

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(437 words, estimated 1:45 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?

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

Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 1/10

Cast: Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan, Sarah Dumont, Davis Koechner, Halston Sage, Cloris Leachman, Niki Koss, Hiram A. Murray, Lucas Gage, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Blake Anderson, Missy Martinez.

It’s a shame that American cinema cannot learn from its mistakes, especially when it comes to comedy, parody or irony and if the bench mark in recent times had been set low with Bad Neighbours then it doesn’t really get any better with Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.

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

Burnt, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Bruhl, Ricardo Scamarcio, Omar Sy, Sarn Keeley, Henri Goodman, Matthew Rhys, Stephen Campbell Moore, Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman, Lexi Benbow-Hart, Alicia Vikander, Lily James.

Like films about sporting events, it can be hard to catch a piece of art when confining it to the kitchen, when allowing the furnace like quality, the cauldron of temper to infiltrate celluloid, for like an orchestra, every interpretation of the moves and subtle dance within a restaurant kitchen is open up for debate and explanation.

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

The Last Witch Hunter, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Michael Caine, Julie Engelbrecht, Rena Owen, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Isaach De Bankolé, Michael Halsey, Bex Taylor Klaus, Lotte Verbeek.

It is the enemies that you don’t see coming that leads the soul to mortal terror. Those that hate you and openly declare war on you and your kind, at least with those you can reason with, draw a line in the idle and share Time on Earth without ever seeing again, it is those that profess to have your best interests at heart that you have to wary of.

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

Crimson Peak, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver, Burn Gorman, Mrs. McMichael, Doug Jones, Bruce Gray, Sofia Wells, Javier Botet, Bill Lake, Martin Julien.

The Victorian society, one so noble, one so pretentious and self serving, had no qualms about the dealing with those they saw as lingering within the realms of madness, those they thought were drawn too deeply to the shadowed recesses of the mind as to actually give them many euphemisms and one that has persisted through time is the mad woman in the attic, the woman who is locked away from even her own family for the fear of the dark web that she surrounds herself with.

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

Pixels, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10

Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, Matt Lintz, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Jane Krakowski, Dan Aykroyd, Affion Crockett, Lainie Kazan, Ashley Benson, Denis Akiyama, Tom McCarthy.

It is funny how often you can be suckered into watching a film in which you know is going to give you the most amazing premise but somehow has less chance of delivering upon the promise of good times and stomach aching laughter than a President being so well adored that the American voters would allow them any indiscretion going. They wouldn’t even clamour for their impeachment if they were caught in bed playing an out of tune flute whilst whispering sweet nothings to the Russian Ambassador as they talked of handing back Sarah Palin and the state of Alaska back to Moscow.

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(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Southpaw, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker, Oona Laurence, 50 Cent, Naomie Harris, Victor Ortiz, Tyrese Gibson, Miguel Gomez, Beau Knapp, Rita Ora, Clare Foley, Dominic Colón, Jose Caraballo, Malcolm M. Mays, Aaron Quattrocchi, Lana Young, Danny Henriquez, Patsy Meck, Vito Grassi, Tony Weeks, Jimmy Lennon Jr., Charles Hoyes, Clare Foley, Mark Shrader, Adam Kroloff, Skylan Brooks, Patrick Jordan, Cedric D. Jones, Jim Lampley.

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(561 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Terminator Genisys, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi, Matt Smith, Courtney B. Vance, Byung-Hun Lee, Michael Gladis, Sandrine Holt, Wayne Bastrup, Gregory Alan Williams, Otto Sanchez, Matty Ferraro, Griff Furst, Robert Patrick, Kerry O’ Malley, Mark Adam, Bryant Prince.

 

At least with a new Terminator film, the public’s suffering at the hands of Terminator: Salvation can now be start to be forgotten, left to rust in its own cage of insipid pop culture and if possible banished from the memory forever, skipped over when watching the series of films back to back and the DVD given away to charity, though to be fair, they might not thank you for it.

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(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)