Tag Archives: John Magaro

The Agency. Television Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Katherine Waterston, Jodie Turner-Smith, Richard Gere, John Magaro, Harriet Sansom Harris, Saura Lightfoot Leon, India Fowler, Hugh Bonneville, David Harewood, Andrew Brooke, Reza Brojerdi, Alex Reznik, Bilal Hasna, Sabrina Wu, Kurt Egyiawan, Ambreen Razia, Adam Nagaitis, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Julia Westcott-Hutton, Dominic West, Edward Holcroft, Abdullahi Islaw, Elana Saurel, Juris Zagars, Olekandr Rudynskyy, Emma Lau, Curtis Lum, Sergej Onopko, Marcin Zarzeczny, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Akpore Uzoh, Violet Verigo, Alex Jennings.

The world of espionage has become so engrained into our collective psyche that for the most part it has become background noise to the genuine concerns of real life that inspires it.

The Agency. Television Drama Series Review. full post

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

Carol, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Sarah Paulson, John Magaro, Cory Michael Smith, Kevin Crowley, Nik Pajic, Carrie Brownstein, Trent Rowland.

Such was the shape of the world in the 1950s that it was easier to mention in homes up and down the American political highway the issues surrounding Communism than it was to talk openly about the love shared between two women, that the so-called threat of Communism could be seen as a driving force of debate and yet to be a lesbian was something that was swept under so many carpets that it enjoyed an abundance of innuendo and implication.

Carol, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)