Tag Archives: Martin Freeman

Fargo, The Muddy Road. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, Oliver Platt, Keith Carradine, Kate Walsh, Joshua Close, Adam Goldberg, Russell Harvard, Glen Howerton, Joey King, Tom Musgrave, Susan Park, Barry Flatman, Peter Brietmayer.

It is the ethos of those who perhaps understand Human behaviour better than the rest of us, who say with certain straight melancholy, that the so called Zombie Apocalypse surely wouldn’t be any worse than what we deal with now. They have a point when the devilish Lorne Malvo can be both cruelly charming and disarmingly brutal, an individual who surely would draw inspiration from the evil spirits that fester alongside and within Christopher Marlow’s Faustus.

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(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Fargo, The Rooster Prince. Episode Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, Keith Carradine, Joshua Close, Adam Goldberg, Russell Harvard, Glenn Howerton, Brian Markinson, Tom Musgrave, Joey King, Rachel Blanchard, Peter Breitmayer, Barry Flatman, Oliver Platt, Spencer Drever, Lori Ravensborg, Gordon S. Miller, Allegra Fulton, David LeReaney, Graeme Black, James Dugan, Peter Strand Rumpel, Paul Braunstein, Sarah Elias, Mart Ronaghan, Leah Cairns, Crystal Brooke, Liam Green, Eve Harlow, Chad Stanley Martin.

Fargo, The Rooster Prince. Episode Two. Television Review. full post

(552 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Fargo: The Crocodile’s Dilema. (Episode One). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Alison Tolman, Bob Odenkirk, Keith Carradine, Kate Walsh, Joshua Clegg, Joey King, Shawn Doyle, Brian Markinson, Kelly Holden Basher, Tom Musgrave, Julie Ann Emery, Rachel Blanchard, Kevin O’ Grady, Atticus Mitchell, Liam Green, Brian Jensen, Dave Trimble, Andrew McKenzie, Karen Johnson-Diamond, Lori Ravensborg, Michelle Thrush, Spencer Drever, Sam Duke, Darrell Orydzuk, Ben Wong, Lydia Lau, Susan Park, Carolyn Bridget Kennedy, Ryan Suffesick.

Fargo: The Crocodile’s Dilema. (Episode One). Television Review. full post

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

Sherlock: His Last Vow (Series Three). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Amanda Abbington, Lars Mikkelsen, Louise Brealey, Mark Gatiss, Lindsay Duncan, Una Stubbs, Yasmine Akram, Rupert Graves, Andrew Scott, Jonathan Aris, Tom Brooke, Wanda Ventham, Timothy Carlton, Calvin Demba, Tim Wallers, Glen Davies, Brigid Zengeni, Matthew Welsa, Louis Oliver.

Some things are just over a little too quickly. They are still magnificent, they keep you entertained and intrigued but the sense of having to wait for a lengthy period of time for a new series just as the action has reached a boiling point, a natural high of deduction, is far too much for some to bear.

Sherlock: His Last Vow (Series Three). Television Review. full post

(610 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

Sherlock, Sign Of Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Amanda Abbington, Louise Brealey, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Una Stubbs, Alistair Petrie, Vinette Robinson, Lara Pulver, Oliver Lansley, Alice Lowe, Yasmine Akram, Ed Birch, Jalaal Hartley, Adam Greaves-Neal, Alfie Enoch, Tim Chipping,  Will Keen, Rita Arya, Georgina Rich, Debbie Chazen, Wendy Wason, Nicholas Asbury.

Most weddings end up feeling like murder so why not have Sherlock Holmes somewhere in the room to bring out the best in the proceedings?

Sherlock, Sign Of Three. Television Review. full post

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

Sherlock, The Empty Hearse. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Louise Brealey, Amanda Abbington, Timothy Carlton, Wanda Ventham, Lasco Atkins, Elizabeth Coyle, Paul Warren, Paul Dawkins.

Sherlock lives and all of London can breathe just that little bit more comfortably and soundly as they drift off to sleep, safe in the knowledge that the game is back on…

Sherlock, The Empty Hearse. Television Review. full post

(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

The Hobbit, The Desolation Of Smaug. Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly,  Benedict Cumberbatch, James Nesbitt,  Sylvester McCoy,  Lee Pace, Stephen Fry, Luke Evens,  Graham McTavish, William Kircher, Stephen Hunter, Dean O’ Gorman, Aiden Turner, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, Adam Brown, Mikael Persbrandt, Ryan Gage.

There is no better way to round off an outstanding year in cinema that too return to the Lonely Mountain, through a forest of spiders and a tangle with the web that Elvish Men weave and via one of the finest dialogues captured throughout the whole of the Lord of the Rings trilogies and a journey involving a reluctant thief, a Wizard and a gang of Dwarves than to immerse yourself fully into the world of The Hobbit, The Desolation of Smaug.

The Hobbit, The Desolation Of Smaug. Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool. full post

(611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

The World’s End, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan, Bill Nighy, David Bradley, Mark Heap, Steve Oram, Jasper Levine, Reece Shearsmith.

 

Is there nothing that Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright cannot put together that isn’t just pure British comedy gold? For the first fifteen minutes of the latest film to come from the warped and surreal imagination of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, The World’s End, it felt as if though the run had finally come to a crashing and disturbing end. Not so much comedy, not so much a film bought together by some of the most talented people around but the sinking feeling that this was more about a pool of writers and actors finally admitting defeat and waving a white flag but making a tedious journey round of jokes concerning the drinking culture of the U.K.

The World’s End, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool. full post

(504 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis, Ken Stott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Sylvester McCoy, Barry Humphries, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Mark Hadlow, Dean O’ Gorman, Aiden Turner, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, Aiden Turner.

 

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(522 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Sherlock, Televsion Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 5th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Scott, Lara Pulver.

It’s been a long wait but finally television audiences were able to greet Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ version of Sherlock Holmes with open arms and once more willing to see the great detective transplanted from the ideal of 1880’s London through to the present day.

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(536 words, 1 image, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)