Tag Archives: Melissa Benoist

Supergirl: Series Six. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Chyler Leigh, Katie McGrath, Jesse Rath, Nicole Maines, Azie Tesfai, Julie Gonzalo, Staz Nair, Peta Sergeant, David Harwood, Jon Cryer, Brenda Strong, Sharon Leal, Claude Knowlton, Jason Behr, Matt Baram, Jhaleil Swaby, Mila Jones, Calista Flockhart, Mechad Brooks, Jeremy Jordan, Chris Wood, Helen Slater.

There are finales that leave you breathless, there are finales that make you question your beliefs, and there are endings in which the length of time invested in a particular television series leaves you understandably devastated by its removal from your timetable and television schedule that it can hit you like a bereavement, not of the physical, but of the declared love you have shown it.

Supergirl: Series Six. Television Review. full post

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

Supergirl: Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Katie McGrath, Jesse Rath, Sam Witwer, Nicole Maines, April Parker Jones, David Harewood, Jon Cryer, Rhona Mitra, Robert Baker, Anthony Konechny, Bruce Boxleitner, Andrea Brooks, Sarah Smyth, Graham Verchere,  David Ajala, Donna Benedicto, Jessica Meraz, Azie Tesfai, Lynda Carter, Brenda Strong, Tiya Sircar, Vincent Gale, Cardi Wong, Fulvio Cecere, Xander Berkeley, John Wesley Shipp, La Monica Garrett, Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Carlos Valdes, Danielle Panabaker, Grant Gustin, Jeremy Davies, Ruby Rose, Carl Lumbly.

Supergirl: Series Four. Television Review. full post

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

Supergirl (Season One). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, David Harewood, Calista Flockhart, Laura Benanti, Dean Cain, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Peter Facinelli, Brit Morgan, Glenn Morshower, Grant Gustin, Emma Caulfield, Italia Ricci, Helen Slater.

Whilst Marvel has done a sterling job in promoting the female superheroes of its comic book archive, it perhaps has not done quite enough to capture the same feeling of warmth and inclusion generated by the television shows that house the most valued possessions of it main rival, D.C. Comics.

Supergirl (Season One). Television Review. full post

(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Danny Collins, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Garner, Josh Peck, Melissa Benoist, Nick Offerman, Aarti Mann, Katrina Cas, Anne McDaniels, Brian Smith, Eric Lange, Giselle Eisenberg, Michael Patrick McGill, Scott Lawrence, Eric Michael Roy.

Every actor has one film in them which the plaudits and the cinema goer attaches great stock and faith in, some have more than one. For Al Pacino, they seem to have come with never ending force and for even those who might not see the appeal of his film career over say Robert de Niro or Jack Nicholson, they have to concede that the man is adored the world over.

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

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

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell, Nate Long, Chris Mulkey, Damon Gupton, Susanne Spoke, Max Kasch, Charlie Ian, Jayson Blair, Kofi Siriboe, Kavita Patil, C.J. Vana, Tarik Lowe, Tyler Kimball, Rogelio Douglas Jr, Adrian Burks, Calvin C Winbush, Joseph Bruno, Michael D. Cohen, Jocelyn Ayanna, Keenan Henson, Rachel Bornholdt.

 

It is the one central theme of the film Whiplash, the act of dominance, which makes it such an achievement of cinema making.

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

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