Tag Archives: Idris Elba

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.

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

Beast. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Idris Elba, Leah Jeffries, Iyana Halley, Sharlto Copley, Liyabuya Gongo, Martin Munro, Daniel Hadebe, Thapelo Sebogodi, Chris Langa, Mduduzi Mavimbela, Chris Gxalaba, Kazi Khuboni, Tafara Nyatsanza, Ronald Mikwanazi, Naledi Mogadime, Thabo Rametsi.

A film that divides is prosperous indeed, and whilst Beast is not the greatest film of all time, what it lacks in agility and convincing CGI/acting, it more than makes up for in its environmental message. A film that produces empathy and disgust at the actions of a part of humanity driven by destruction, deserves more praise than it has received so far.

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

Sonic The Hedgehog 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: James Marsden. Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter, Idris Elba, Adam Pally, Shemar Moore, Lee Majdoub, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, Melody Nosipho Niemann, Tom Butler, Brad Kalilmoku, Krista Alvarez, Donna Jay Fulks, Elizabeth Bowen.

You can’t keep a good hedgehog down, and even if it is only for nostalgia’s sake, the name of Sonic is one that, like the Duracell Bunny, seems to keep going, and going…until, well you get the picture.

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

Luther (Series Five). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Idris Elba, Ruth Wilson, Patrick Malahide, Dermot Crowley, Wunmi Mosaku, Lex Daniel, Enzo Cilenti, Hermione Norris, Anthony Howell, Michael Smiley, Paul McGann, Lewis Young, Sonita Henry, Luke Westlake, Lex Daniel, Michael Obiora, Delroy Atkinson, Gary Hailes, Katherine Orchard, Jami Reid-Quarrell, Roberta Taylor.

The cruelty of life is such that those who should stay dead, sometimes never do, the mayhem of their life interferes with any possible peace that may come your way, their presence, long after you thought you had buried them, somehow returns to cause chaos, to bring you pain, a pain arguably always born out of misplaced loyalty, memory and love.

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

Avengers: Infinity War. Film Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Josh Brolin, Zoe Saldana, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Elisabeth Olson, Sebastian Stan, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Holland, Idris Elba, Chadwick Boseman, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Pom Klementieff, Danai Gurira, Benico Del Toro, Paul Bettany, Kerry Condon, Bradley Cooper, Carrie Coon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Peter Dinklage, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Mackie, Terry Notary, Winston Duke, Benedict Wong, Don Cheadle, Marija Juliette Abney.

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(517 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Thor: Ragnorak. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Taika Waititi, Rachel House, Clancy Brown, Tadanobu Asano, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Luke Hemsworth, Sam Neill.

Norse mythology is such that it gets overlooked in the modern world in favour of a more fashionable awareness of modern possibilities, political issues and our place in the world. It is not only Norse that suffers, even now looking say at British history in the history of the Roman occupation can lead to sneers of derision in some quarters, people, perhaps understandably, forgetting that the way we are now is because of the stories passed down in myth and legend, Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Native American, Inuit or even Norse, they play a part in the way we view heroes and evil in the world.

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

The Mountain Between Us. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Dermot Mulroney, Beau Bridges, Linda Sorensen, Vincent Gale, Marci T. House.

The Mountain Between Us is such that at times what we perceive is heroic and noble in ourselves can be considered as weak and ineffective by others. Our stance in the wake of calamity is not defined by what we were but who we are shown to be when the ordeal is over. It is a reminder that what stands between the mountains is not space or the yawning chasm but the chance to grow beyond what is real at the time.

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(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

The Dark Tower. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Claudia Kim, Franz Kranz, Abbey Lee, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Haysbert, Katheryn Winnick, Nicholas Pauling, Michael Barbieri, Jose Zuniga Eva Kaminsky, Robbie McLean, Karl Thaning.

The world is not always as we see it, there are millions of possibilities at play every day that we do not realise or refuse to witness what can be outside of our sphere of existence. It is a premise that has been used over and over again to great effect, that time, that the ability to see beyond is one of great intrigue and one that Stephen King has used to great effect for over 40 years as one of the pre-eminent writers of the 20th and 21st Century.

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

Star Trek Beyond, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba, Sofia Boutella, Joe Taslim, Lydia Wilson, Deep Roy, Melissa Roxburgh, Anita Brown, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Greg Grunberg.

As the 50th anniversary of Star Trek looms closer on the horizon, it is fitting that the latest instalment of the rebooted storyline harks back to a day when the heroes of the piece were fighting not only an unknown enemy but also their own conscious and aspirations.

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Bastille Day, Film Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 0/10

Cast: Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Kelly Reilly, Charlotte Le Bon, Alexander Cooper, Anatol Yusef, José Garcia, James Cox, Laura Hydari, Karl Farror, Eriq Ebouaney, Daniel Westwood, Jorge Leon Martinez, Alex Martin.

There are times when you do have to wonder if some film makers actually know the difference between a good film with a plot that doesn’t tax the brain too much and that where they make a film just purely for the credit or the financial gain that might come their way, the plot as weak as a watered down soup from a vending machine in a bus terminus, the acting as interesting as mould growing in a Petri dish and all the action of a night in the morgue, where the only excitement is seeing just how badly the film runs towards its bitter and thankful conclusion.

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(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)