Tag Archives: Kathy Bates

On The Basis Of Sex. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates, Cailee Spaeny, Jack Reynor, Stephen Root, Chris Mulkey, Gary Werntz, Francis X. McCarthy, Ben Carlson, Ronald Guttman, Wendy Crewson, John Ralston, Arthur Holden, Angela Galuppo, Geordie Johnson, Jeff Lillico, Callum Schoniker, Joe Cobden, Sharon Washington, Holly Gauthier-Frankel, Tom Irwin, Alexandra Petrachuk, Paul Spera, Aiza Ntibarikure, Marina Moreira, Moira Wylie.

 

If the biopic serves any purpose, it is to serve justice to the characters it is its honour to portray, a quest that for many falls short or has to be suitably arranged so that it spices up what is otherwise the dull and routinely languid.

On The Basis Of Sex. Film Review. full post

(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Feud. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Judy Davies, Jackie Hoffman, Alfred Molina, Stanley Tucci, Alison Wright, Catherine Zeta Jones, Dominic Burgess, Joel Kelley Daunton, Kathy Bates, Kiernan Shipka, Molly Price, Serinda Swann, Sarah Paulson.

In many ways Hollywood has not changed a single bit since someone put up a soundstage, started the cameras rolling for the first time and a voice in the background shouted out with a booming voice, action. Men have always called the shots, it isn’t right, it can be downright obscene and for many, change has just not happened quickly enough.

Feud. Television Review. full post

(713 words, estimated 2:51 mins reading time)