Tag Archives: Joseph Balderrama

Uncharted. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali, Tati Gabreille, Steven Waddington, Pingi Moli, Tiernan Jones, Rudy Pankow, Jesús Evita, Georgia Goodman, Joseph Balderrama, Manuel de Blas.

For many, film and video games are now interchangeable, one pushes the other onwards, they are the same behemoth just with different pasts driving them; and for others it is a tangled web, one designed for a generation that perhaps has not explored the rich history that has placed cinema at the head of entertaining and educating millions of people since it first gained reverence as the peak of the visual art form and remained so until its more agnostic sibling, television, stole its pace in the habits of billions.

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

Film Review. The Current War.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Tom Holland, Katherine Waterston, Tuppence Middleton, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Macfadyen, Damien Molony, Craig Conway, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Simon Kunz, John Schwab, Amy Marston, Woody Norman, Celyn Jones, Colin Stinton, Conor MacNeil, Simon Manyonda, Joseph Balderrama, Tom Bell, Evy Frearson.

 

The race to be remembered for one’s achievements is one that normally never truly won, it can also be one that causes a degree of self-harm on the protagonist, especially when it drives them to the point of exhaustion, and the possibility of neglecting loved ones and the thoughts of the wider community.

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(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Stan & Ollie. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John C. Reilly, Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda, Stephanie Hyam, Danny Huston, Richard Cant, Susy Kane, Rufus Jones, Sanjeev Kohli, Joseph Balderrama, Greg Canestrari, Danny Scheinmann.

History will only ever recall what the public wants to remember; a statement which seems to grow as we move further away from what was deemed traditional and into a world in which instant success and cheap exploitation of talent is lauded and cheered. It is in this unworthy scenario surely that we lose collectively the feeling and sense of wonder that encapsulates longevity, that everybody now has a chance of being seen for a minute, and then forgotten, dismissed, bring the next star in and let the nation love them for a brief explosive minute.

Stan & Ollie. Film Review. full post

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