Tag Archives: Ian Hart

Marlowe. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Ian Hart, Danny Huston, Colm Meaney, Ian Hart, Alan Cumming, Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, Stella Stocker, François Arnaud, Mitchell Mullen, Patrick Muldoon, Daniela Melchior, Roberto Peralta, J.M. Maciá, Michael Garvey, David Lifschitz, Anton Antoniadis, Minnie Marx, Seána Kerslake, Julius Cotter, Michael Strelow.

Whether in classic sense of the genre, or in its more functional, but less direct late 20th Century/21st Century observance, Noir influences the cinematic lover in ways that other fields of the medium fail to deliver.

Marlowe. Film Review. full post

(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Responder. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Martin Freeman, MyAnna Buring, Adelayo Adedayo, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Mark Womack, Josh Finan, Emily Fairn, Philip Shaun McGuinness, Warren Brown, Ian Hart, Faye McKeever, Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Christine Tremarco, David Loy, Rob Pomfret, Jude Cooper-Kelly, Kerrie Hayes, Dave Hart, Lois Cringle, James Nelson-Joyce, David Bradley, Karl Collins, Philip Whitchurch, Amaka Okafor, Marji Campi, Rita Tushingham, Maud Druine, Michael Starke, Jake Abraham, Paul Campion, Christian Waite, Victor McGuire, Kieran Urquhart, Sylvie Gatrill, Matthew Cottle, Dave Hill, Roy Brandon, Harry Burke, Pat Winker.

The Responder. Television Review. full post

(764 words, estimated 3:03 mins reading time)

The Terror. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Paul Ready, Adam Nagaitis, Ian Hart, Nive Nielsen, Ciaran Hinds, Christos Lawton, Matthew McNulty, David Walmsey, Liam Garrigan, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Stephen Thompson, Ronan Raftery, Mikey Collins, Edward Ashley, Chris Corrigan, Alistair Petrie, Charlie Kelly, Kevin Guthrie, Declan Hannigan, Anthony Flanagan, Aaron Jeffcoate, Greta Scacchi, Trystan Gravelle, Charles Edwards, John Lynch, Guy Falkner, Sian Brooke, Reed Diamond, William MacDonald, Johnny Issaluk, Richard Sutton, Tom Weston-Jones.

The Terror. Television Review. full post

(636 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

Mary, Queen Of Scots. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, David Tennant, Guy Pearce, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Gemma Chan, Martin Compston, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Brendan Coyle, Ian Hart, Adrian Lester, James McArdle, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Eileen O’Higgins, Izuka Hoyle, Liah O’Prev, Alex Beckett, Simon Russell Beale, Richard Cant, Guy Rhys, Thom Petty, Aneurin Pascoe, Adrian Derrick-Palmer, Kal Sabir, Adam Bond, Like Kidd, Claire Brown, Alan Turkington, Jordan Turk, Adam Stevenson, Scot Greenan, Ed Jones, Alex Beckett, Ian Hallard, Andrew Rothney, Grace Molony, Georgia Burnell, Luke Hobson, Ben Wiggons, Eldredd, Wolf, Eric Macnaughton, Nathen East, Sean Buchanan.

Mary, Queen Of Scots. Film Review. full post

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

The Secret Agent, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Toby Jones, Charlie Hamblett, Vicky McClure, Marie Critchley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Raphael Acloque, Stephen Graham, Ian Hart, Tom Goodman-Hill, David Dawson, Ash Hunter, George Costigan, Pennie Downie, Selina Boyack, Philip Rosch, Christopher Fairbank, Chris Ryman.

It can only be a good thing that television is prepared at times to look back through the innumerable amount of books and novels from before the second world war, the wealth of words wrapped up in long forgotten dust sheets and only admired by students of English literature. At times, it is good that television does this, for it reminds the multitude that there is such a thing as a story without sensationalism and the need for lust to be shown at every possible moment.

The Secret Agent, Television Review. full post

(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Last Kingdom, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Alexander Dreymon, Ian Hart, David Dawson, Adrian Bower, Brian Vernal, Eliza Butterworth, Emily Cox, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Harry McEntire, Tobias Santlemann, Simon Kunz, Amy Wren, Matthew Macfadyen, Rune Temte, Henning Valin Jakobsen, Charlie Murphy, Sean Gilder, Lorcan Cranitch, Alec Newman.

To love history, to love the chronicles of English Literature that delve further back than even that of the great works of art beloved by Geoffrey Chaucer or the stunning Beowulf, one must then surely admire just how the kingdom of England was forged in the fire of heat and war, to the point where even a committed pacifist could take up a sword to defend a hillside or see the Somerset Levels not as a housing estate but as a naturally occurring set of defences.

The Last Kingdom, Television Review. full post

(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

The Driver, Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast:  David Morrissey, Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Claudie Blakley, Darren Morfitt, Sacha Parkinson, Lee Ross, Harish Patel, Lewis Rainer, Andrew Tiernan, Chris Coghill, Shaun Dingwall, Andrew Knott, Nathan McMullen, Ciara Baxendale, Leanne Best, Dominic Coleman, Rick Bacon, Emma Bispham, Karl Collins, Alan Rothwell.

 

The British gangster drama, whether on television or in the cinema has never really captured the days of Brighton Rock with Richard Attenborough and William Hartnell or the fantastic The Long Good Friday with the much missed Bob Hoskins    and the excellent Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Since those days of cinematic greats the genre seems to have become too safe, it has waved a white flag in surrender to its American counterpart.

The Driver, Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(603 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)