Tag Archives: Florence Pugh

Oppenheimer. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes, Jason Clarke, Florence Pugh, Dane DeHaan, Kurt Koehler, Tony Goldwyn, John Gowans, Macon Blair, James D’Arcy, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Groener, Gregory Jbara, Ted King, Tim DeKay, Steven Houska, Tom Conti, David Krumholtz, Matthais Schweighöfer, Josh Hartnett, Alex Wolff, Josh Zuckerman, Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Hap Lawrence, Matthew Modine, Louise Lombard, Matt Damon, Jack Quaid, David Dastmaichian.

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(629 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Don’t Worry Darling. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, Sydney Chandler, Kate Berlant, Asif Ali, Douglas Smith, Timothy Simons, Ari’el Stachel, Steve Berg, Daisy Sudeikis, Marcello Reves, Dita Von Teese.

Wouldn’t we all like to be happy and carefree, to see the world through the lens of contentment and satisfaction. The world at ease is attainable, but would we, like the passive Eloi that were food for the Morlocks in The Time Machine, soon be fodder for someone else appetite, not necessarily our flesh being consumed, but our minds, our souls, being stripped of anything that was fiercely individual, being human.

Don’t Worry Darling. Film Review. full post

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

Black Widow. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weiz, David Harbour, Ray Winstone, William Hurt, Olga Kurlenko.

It was the film the franchise needed, it just seemed to come at the wrong time.

Marvel have barely put a foot wrong in over a decade’s worth of film and television serials which have caught the public’s attention and imagination, and if looked upon as a stand-alone film within the franchise, Cate Shortland’s Black Widow has all the hallmarks of being a heavy hitter within the ranks; not only for the dynamic framed between Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh as Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova respectively, but for the way that the film is not afraid to tackle the murky waters of young children being groomed for war.

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(371 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Midsommar. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Will Poulter, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, Liv Miones, Anna Astrom, Isabelle Grill, Julia Ragnarsson, Louise Peterhoff, Henrik Norlen, Bjorn Andresen, Gunnel Fred, Austin R. Grant, Anki Larsson, Levente Puczko-Smith, Rebecka Johnston, Johan Matton, Mats Blomgren, Hampus Hallberg, Tove Skeidsvoll, Lars Varinger, Balazs Megveri, Anders Back, Lennart R. Svensson, Katarina Weidhagen, Klaudia Csanvi, Anders Beckman, Agnes Westerlund Rase, Maximilian Slash Marton, Tomas Engstrom, Dora Ferencczi, Dag Andersson.

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(632 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Fighting With My Family. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Florence Pugh, Nick Frost, Lena Headey, Jack Lowden, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne Johnson, Olivia Bernstone, Leah Harvey, Mohammed Amiri, Jack Gouldbourne, Elroy Powell, Hannah Rae, Julia Davis, Stephen Merchant, Ellie Gonsalves, Aqueela Zoll, Kim Matula, James Burrows, Thea Trinidad.

You must never be afraid to risk losing everything in the pursuit of the one goal you have always held in your heart, the price is extraordinarily high but the reward of satisfaction will always be worth it, even if it eventually takes you down a road to which you might never recover. Too high a price? Too much jeopardy involved? Nobody said it would be easy, nobody ever said it would be an easy fix, but sometimes wrestling with one’s own conscious is worth all and one that is captured with spirit and generosity of scope in the biggest sports arena of all, the ring.

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(769 words, estimated 3:05 mins reading time)

The Little Drummer Girl. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Florence Pugh, Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon, Michael Moshonov, Simona Brown, Clare Holman, Kate Sumpter,  Gennady Fleyscher, Amir Khoury, Katharina Schuttler, Charles Dance, Lubna Azabal,  Daniel Litman, Charif Ghattas, Max Irons, Sam Troughton.

In the war to protect what you believe is yours, sometimes you have to employ methods in which are dubious at best, downright ugly at worst, it is the thinking and planning ahead in which wins the minds of the people you are charged with protecting, but one in which the enemy you have created will fight you every step of the way to kill you first.

The Little Drummer Girl. Television Review. full post

(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

King Lear. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Jim Broadbent, Florence Pugh, Jim Carter, Andrew Scott, John Macmillan, Tobias Menzies, Anthony Calf, Karl Johnson, Christopher Eccleston, John Standing, Simon Manyonda, Chukwudi Iwuji, Samuel Valentine, Arinze Kene, Sharon Watts, Kaye Brown, Raphael Desprez, Peter Forbes, Sam Redford, Liam McKenna, Paul Tinto, Eric Kofi-Abrefa.

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(495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

The Commuter, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Sam Neil, Elizabeth McGovern, Kilian Scott, Andy Nyman, Shazad Latif, Clara Lago, Florence Pugh, Roland Moller, Dean Charles Chapman, Ella Rae-Smith, Colin McFarlane, Nila Aalia, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Adam Nagaitis, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Damson Idris, Ben Caplan.

 

No matter what we believe, we all have a price that is offered in which we might be tempted to do something that would otherwise go against our centre of morality, our code of honour; it could be bought on by desperation, greed or just a moment of madness in which the brain wanders and thinks well why not, I could do so much with it, and who would know.

The Commuter, Film Review. full post

(431 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Lady Macbeth, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbanks, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomi Ackie, Bill Fellows, Paul Hilton, Golda Rosheuvel, Ian Cunningham, Fleur Houdijk, Rebecca Manley, Kema Sikazwe, David Kirkbride, Joseph Teague, Cliff Burnett, Anton Palmer.

 

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

Marcella, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anna Friel, Ray Panthaki, Nina Sosanya, Nicholas Pinnock, Charlie Covell, Sinéad Cusack, Jack Doolan, Harry Lloyd, Tobias Santelmann, Jamie Bamber, Patrick Baladi, Ben Cura, Ian Puleston-Davies, Emil Hostina, Susannah Wise, Imogen Fairies, Laura Carmichael, Stephen Lord, Yasen Atour, Jasmine Breinburg, Florence Pugh, Nick Hendrix, George Barnes, Andrew Lancel, Maeve Dermody.

The art of the Noir is to keep the viewer or reader guessing long enough that they doubt their own verdict, their own deductive reasoning and to question further their own possible prejudices of one suspect or another. It is an art fully utilised by the writers of the series Marcella and one that really got under the skin as each episode progressed.

Marcella, Television Review. full post

(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)