Tag Archives: Matthew Goode

Freud’s Last Session. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries, Jodi Balfour, Jeremy Northam, Orla Brady, George Andrew-Clarke, Rhys Mannion, Pádraic Delaney, Stephen Campbell-Moore, Aiden McArdle, Tarek Bishara, Nina Kolomiitseva, Gary Buckley, Emmet Kirwan, David Shields, Anna Amalie Blomeyer. 

Perfect for the stage, but perhaps in many eyes not good enough for the large screen, in that itself the message is lost in psychoanalysis and treatment, the thought that one piece of art cannot exist in two or more different realms of the public’s mind; this schism is a mindset that cannot afford space in the human experience.

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(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

A Discovery Of Witches. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Alex Kingston, Gregg Chilingirian, Trevor Eve, Owen Teale, Malin Buska, Edward Blumel, Aiysha Hart, Valarie Pettiford, Lindsay Duncan, Aisling Loftus, Tanya Moodie, Adelle Leonce, Sorcha Cusack, Steven Cree, Daniel Ezra, Jacob Ifan, Greg McHugh.

A trilogy is only as good as its final part. If you can stomach that declaration then understanding is part of your deal, for a trilogy means nothing if the ending is unbelievable, if it goes against everything that has been set up in good faith before, then the whole structure falls apart, it becomes worthless, the one willing to sit through an entire season, take pleasure in the excitement of the ending, might arguably feel cheated, will feel the waves of cynical impression forced upon their time.

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(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The King’s Man. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Djimon Hounsou, Gemma Arterton, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Harris Dickinson, Alexandra Maria Lara, Rhys Ifans, Tom Hollander, Valerie Pachner, Daniel Brühl, Ron Cook, Joel Basman, Todd Boyce, Barbara Drennan, August Diehl, Alison Steadman, Ian Kelly, Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

There is nothing quite like the epic romp, and in modern cinema nobody does it arguably finer and with more dynamic display than Director Matthew Vaughn.

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

A Discovery Of Witches: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Trevor Eve, Owen Teale, Lindsay Duncan, Alex Kingston, Edward Bluemel, Sheila Hancock, Tom Hughes, Adrian Rawlins, James Purefoy, Gregg Chilingirian, Malin Buska, Aiysha Hart, Valerie Pettiford, Aisling Loftus, Tanya Moodie, Adelle Leonce, Sorcha Cusack, Steven Cree, Daniel Ezra, Jacob Ifan, Sophia Myles, Greg McHugh, Leo Ashizawa, Milo Twomey, Trystan Gravelle, Holly Aird, David Newman, Peter McDonald, Amanda Hale, Anton Lesser, Straun Rodger, 

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(582 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

A Discovery Of Witches (Series One). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Edward Bluemel, Owen Teale, Louise Brealey, Malin Buska, Aiysha Hart, Alex Kingston, Lindsay Duncan, Valarie Pettiford, Trevor Eve, Greg McHugh, Tanya Moodie, Damiel Ezra, Elarica Johnson, Trystan Gravelle, Adetomiwa Edun, Sophia Myles, David Newman, Sorcha Cusack, Chloe Dumas, Gregg Chillin.

“Those who don’t believe in magic, are doomed never to find it”.

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(620 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

Official Secrets. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Katherine Kelly, Indira Varma, MyAnna Buring, Kenneth Cranham, Jack Farthing, Tasmin Grieg, Hattie Morahan, Jeremy Northam, Conleith Hill, Hanako Footman, Shaun Dooley, Monica Dolan, Chris Larkin, Ray Panthaki, Clive Francis, Peter Guinness, John Heffernan, Angus Wright, Adam Bakri.

 

A Government not afraid of the possibility of its people rebelling against them is one that surely does not exist, for the very nature of Government is to lie through its teeth and sow discord under the banner of freedom. It is up to the individual of how much they can stomach, what lies they are willing to let stand and which ones they need to follow closely in the hope that they will be exposed, and which ones they might openly defy.

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

The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Michiel Huisman, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Courtenay, Glen Powell, Penelope Wilton, Bronagh Gallagher, Dilyana Bouklieva, Kit Connor, Marek Oravec, Steve Carroll, Nicola Pasetti, Andy Gathergood, Emily Patrick, Amil Freeman, Tom Owen.

The idyllic can hold a person’s mind entranced, the beauty of the location a veritable feast for the soul and the easy going nature of the locals, disarming, reassuring and pleasurable; yet in any place which holds the attention of the visitor, there is always the unspoken horrors that may have occurred, that may be pushed down so far into the consciousness that resurrect them is more painful than anyone from the outside can believe.

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(555 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Ordeal By Innocence. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Bill Nighy, Luke Treadaway, Anthony Boyle, Anna Chancellor, Morven Christie, Crystal Clarke, Alice Eve, Matthew Goode, Ella Purnell, Eleanor Tomlinson, Brian McCardie, Luke Murray, Hayden Robertson, Catriona McNicoll, Abigail Conteh, Rhys Lambert, Frances Grey.

In the world of Agatha Christie nobody is innocent, all have a dark secret they wish to keep hidden from view and it is in the capturing of the human capacity for deceit that makes Ms. Christie, almost 50 years after her death, one author from the 20th Century who makes the reader understand with absolute certainty that death is but a companion in the shadow of our hearts when it comes to the bitterness, jealousy and greed we allow to dwell in our souls.

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

The Imitation Game, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kiera Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Stone, Charles Dance, Alan Leech, Tuppence Middleton, Rory Kinnear, Steven Waddington, Tom Goodman Hill, Matthew Beard, James Northcote, Alex Lawther, Jack Bannon.

 

Alan Turing was a hero of the British war effort in World War Two. His name is now lauded, researched and cheered for his significant part in saving many millions of lives during the darkest of days that shrouded Europe in a blanket of hate. It was due to fear and mistrust though that eventually saw the Professor take his own life in the cruellest of circumstances under a decade later.

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(630 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Emily Watson, Sam Reid, Tom Felton, James Norton, Miranda Richardson, Penelope Wilton, Sarah Gadon, Matthew Goode, Lauren Julien-Box, Natasha Williams, Alan McKenna, Timothy Walker, David Gant, Charlotte Roach, Rupert Wickham, Bethan Mary-James, Alana Ramsey, Alex Jennings, Daniel Wilde, Susan Brown, James Northcote, Andrew Woodall, Edmund Short, Christopher Middleton.

Pride meets extremism prejudice in Misan Sagay’s well written script for the film Belle.

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(594 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)