Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, J. Lee, Mark Jackson, Norm MacDonald, Jessica Szohr, Chad L. Coleman, Halston Sage, Victor Garber, Ted Danson, BJ Tanner, Kai Wener, Ty Finn, Mike Henry, Anne Winters, Graham Hamilton, Kelly Hu, Dolly Parton, Michaela McManus, Imani Pullum, Giorgia Whigham.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Tom Payne, Michael Sheen, Bellamy Young, Halston Sage, Lou Diamond Phillips, Aurora Perrineau, Frank Harts, Catherine Zeta Jones, Keiko Agena, Esau Pritchett, Kasjan Wilson, Alan Cumming.
What we inherit, the D.N.A we have coursing through our very being, is only a fraction of the traits we exhibit when out in the open amongst others, the very question of nature and nurture is never more acute of the moments when we have to remove the mask we have put in place, when we allow our true feelings to surface in the company of strangers and family who may look upon us as the uncontrolled daughter, the Prodigal Son.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Tom Payne, Michael Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Halston Sage, Aurora Pettineau, Frank Harts, Keiko Agena, Bellamy Young, Esau Pritchett, Kasian Wilson, Molly Griggs, Anna Eilinsfeld, Charlayne Woodard, Giuseppe Ardizzone, Dermot Mulroney.
The life of the murderer has always intrigued the armchair detective to the point where it can blind them to a truth when the presence of a serial killer becomes aware to them. There is after all a fundamental difference between a one off taking of life to that of wilfully continuing the senseless slaughter of people, and whilst murder should never be condoned, never be seen as anything abhorrent, the armchair detective and the scandal magazine readers almost salivate over every detail of the serial killer’s purpose and belief, forgetting that underneath it all, are the victims, the stories behind the death.
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.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *
Cast: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Dave Franco, Brian Huskey, Ike Barinholtz, Carla Gallo, Halston Sage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Lisa Kudrow, Jerrod Carmichael, Craig Roberts, Ali Cobrin, Hannibal Buress.
It seriously makes you worry for the future of American comedy if all a studio can come up with is a film that relies far too much displaying the bodily differences between the two main male leads, more needless swearing than you find underlined in a dictionary by somebody with limited vocabulary and an over reliance on showcasing the university fraternity system and their spat with modern day suburbia. It has been down before, with better artistry, finer scripts and with a couple of notable exceptions with better leads and supporting cast. Bad Neighbours is no Animal House. It even has the dubious pleasure of somehow managing to make the National Lampoon films seem like gold dust.