Tag Archives: Hayley Atwell

What If?. Series Two. Animated Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Karen Gillan, Jude Law, Michael Rooker, Seth Green, Taika Waititi, Peter Serafinowicz, Michael Douglas, Hayley Atwell, John Slattery, Kurt Russell, Chris Hemsworth, Laurance Fishburne, Devery Jacobs, Sebastian Stan, Atanwa Kani, Madeleine McGraw, Gene Farber, Jon Favreau, Kat Dennings, Cobie Smulders, Sam Rockwell, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Rachel House, Josh Brolin, Samuel L. Jackson, Frank Grillo, Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Cumberbatch, Clancy Brown, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston, Paul Rudd, Stanley Tucci, Abraham Erskine, Mark Wingert, Lake Bell, Josh Keaton, Julianne Grossman, Fred Tatasciore, Mace Montgomery Miskel, Keri Tombazian, Jeff Bergman, Feodor Chin, Lauren Tom.

What If?. Series Two. Animated Television Series Review. full post

(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Part One). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Frederick Schmidt, Mariela Garriga, Cary Elwes, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma.

You don’t escape from the rage of a volcano by standing still, you cannot avoid the avalanche by staring deep into the bleak white void as it hurtles towards you; and you don’t get to ignore the latest offering from the Mission Impossible franchise by declaring that it doesn’t appeal as an action film just because it is fronted by Tom Cruise.

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Part One). Film Review. full post

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

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Rachel McAdams, Hayley Atwell, Jett Klyne, Julian Hilliard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sheila Hilliard, Adam Hugill, Lasana Lynch, John Krasinski, Charlize Theron, Bruce Campbell, Anson Mount, Patrick Stewart.

All that you is not just down to how you act in this world, it is also how others see you, what they witness, what they perceive, their judgements and their biased convictions; but what if it went deeper than that, what if the shroud of what we are, when pulled back, revealed more than just one face, but several, each with their own history, each with a perception of life that is reflected in the decisions and paths taken, and those we believe we would never take.

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness. Film Review. full post

(514 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Blinded By The Light. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Neera Ganatra, Aaron Phagura, Dean-Charles Chapman, Nikita Mehta, Nell Williams, Tara Divina, Rob Brydon, Frankie Fox, Hayley Atwell, Sally Phillips.

For anyone who was a teenager during the 1980s it can seem that the labelled term of Generation X is perhaps more acute than other, the era of decline, few opportunities, spiralling unemployment, the world no longer an oyster, instead it was the dead end to which the feeling of alienation, guilt, rage and regret were all summed up as the keepers of the social flux, in which society changed and they had no choice but to rebel and move away from the expected dreams of their parents before them.

Blinded By The Light. Film Review. full post

(652 words, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

Rosmersholm, Theatre Review. The Duke Of York’s Theatre, London.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Hayley Atwell, Tom Burke, Lucy Briers, Jake Fairbrother, Giles Terera, Peter Wight, Gavin Antony, Ebony Buckle, Piers Hampton, Maureen Hibbert, Robyn Lovell, Alice Vilanculo.

Love and grief go hand in hand, without one, arguably, you cannot have the other, both are so intrinsic to the human condition that our aspirations to find purpose, to propose revolution and swim against the tides and fears that are continuously placed before us, that threaten to drown us, are instead the welcoming release when all is lost.

Rosmersholm, Theatre Review. The Duke Of York’s Theatre, London. full post

(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Christopher Robin. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Mark Gatiss, Oliver Ford Davies, Ronke Adekoluejo, Adrian Scarborough, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ken Nwosu, John Dagleish, Amanda Lawrence, Katy Carmichael, Orton O’ Brien, Tristan Sturrock, Jasmine-Simone Charles, Paul Chahidi, Simon Farnaby, Mackenzie Crook, Jim Cummings, Brad Garrett, Nick Mohammed, Peter Capaldi, Sophie Okonedo, Sara Sheen, Toby Jones.

It is, with hindsight, easy to suggest that humanity in the 20th Century lost its way, that we as a collected species lost our wonder and our innocence to a new way of thinking, a rational that arguably had its genesis in the self-imposed, stiff upper lipped facade philosophy created by the Victorians and to which even now has eaten away at our ability to forget the dreams we had as children and the wondrous stories we could weave.

Christopher Robin. Film Review. full post

(556 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

The Merchant Of Venice: Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ray Fearon, Colin Morgan, Hayley Atwell, Andrew Scott, Ryan Whittle, Neerja Naik, Ryan Early, Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Lauren Cornelius, Luke Bailey, Kerry Gooderson, Stefan Adegbola, Javier Marzan, Neil McCaul, Clive Hayward, Rupert Holliday-Evans.

Long regarded in the first folio of William Shakespeare’s works as perhaps nothing more than a romantic comedy, it is with fresh eyes in this more discerning and in part justly cynical age to look upon The Merchant of Venice as a problem play, one that deals with the idea of outspoken racism, of anti-Semitism and even inward contempt and intolerance towards a man of another faith, using his debt in which to berate him consciously for his words and supposed lack of loyalty to his God.

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

Howards End (2017). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Hayley Atwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Joe Bannister, Bessie Carter, Philippa Coulthard, Alex Lawther, Donna Banya, Tracey Ullman, Joseph Quinn, Rosalind Eleazer, Yolanda Kettle, Sandra Voe, Miles Jupp, Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Ormond.

 

For all television’s preoccupation with fiction that tries to capture the times in which our great grandparents would have lived through, from the dichotomy of the wonders of invention and adventure in the Victorian era and its more fragile, disgusting more sneering side in which the poor were treated with absolute revulsion and through to the period in which an entire generation were almost wiped out in the horror of the First World War; television in the last few years has done its best to glorify in this time and tried to draw parallels with our own sense of time on the planet.

Howards End (2017). Television Review. full post

(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Ant-Man, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T.,Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, Michael Peña, David Dastmalchian, T.I., Wood Harris, Hayley Atwell, John Slattery, Martin Donovan, Stan Lee.

 

Into every family remains one forgotten member, one who was there at the very beginning and saw some of the early stories, the heartaches and the extreme highs; every family has one and yet some have deserved to be amongst the biggest names.

Ant-Man, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T.,Liverpool. full post

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

The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.CT., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Hayley Atwell, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, James Spader, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Bettany, Idris Elba, Cobie Smulders, Linda Cardellini, Andy Serkis, Stellan Skarsgård, Lou Ferrigno, Stan Lee, Claudia Kim, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Thomas Kretschmann.

The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.CT., Liverpool. full post

(596 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)