Tag Archives: Penelope Wilton

Murder Is Easy. (2023). Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Mathew Baynton, Morfydd Clark, Douglas Henshall, Penelope Wilton, Mark Bonnar, Tom Riley, Tamzin Outhwaite, Sinead Matthews, David Jonsson, Jon Pointing, Nimra Bucha, Kevin Mains, Veronika Klimenko, Joe Fagan, Phoebe Licorish.

Murder is easy, it’s the consequences that are difficult to digest, the murderer’s intent and reasoning challenging to the minds of those to whom such an act is deplorable, an unacceptable reminder that the human soul is capable of such finality.

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

Downton Abbey. A New Era. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Allen Leach, Tuppence Middleton, Samantha Bond, Imelda Staunton, Laura Carmichael, Harry Hadden-Paton, Dougles Reith, Phyllis Logan, Jim Carter, Kevin Doyle, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Brendan Coyle, Lesley Nicol, Sophie McShera, Michael Fox, Raquel Cassidy, Charlie Watson, Bibi Burr, Olive Burr, Eva Samms, Karina Samms, Fifi Hart. Oliver Barker, Zac Barker, Archer Robins, Sue Johnston, Jonathan Coy, Huh Dancy, Paul Copley, Laura Haddock, Dominic West, Jonathan Zaccai, Nathalie Baye, Alex Skarbek, Oliver Ciaverie, David Oliver Fischer, Alex Macqueen.

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

Operation Mincemeat. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Penelope Wilton, Kelly Macdonald, Johnny Flynn, Mark Gatiss, Paul Ritter, Jason Issacs, Simon Russell Beale, Hattie Morahan, Will Keen, Alex Jennings, Jonjo O’Neill, Rufus Wright, Ruby Bentall, Charlotte Hamblin, Lorne Macfadyen, Casper Jennings, Dolly Gadsdon, Michael Bott, Ellie Haddinton, Paul Lancaster, Simon Rouse, Amy Marston, Gabrielle Creevy, Nicholas Rowe, Alexander Beyer, Markus von Lingen, Nico Birnbaum, James Fleet, Mark Bonnar, Javier Godino, Pedro Casablanc, Laura Morgan, Miguel Guardiola, Pep Tosar, Alba Brunet, Oscar Zafra.

Operation Mincemeat. Film Review. full post

(676 words, estimated 2:42 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.

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

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

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Richard Gere, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, David Strathairn, Tasmin Greig, Tina Desai, Lillete Dubey, Diane Hardcastle, Shazad Latif, Zachary Coffin, Christy Meyer, Seema Azmi, Danny Mahoney, Denzil Smith, Eddie Bagayawa, Rajesh Tailang, Avijit Dutt, Gary Tantony.

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(521 words, estimated 2:05 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.

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

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

The Girl, Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Toby Jones, Sienna Miller, Penelope Wilton, Imelda Staunton, Sean Cameron Michael, Candice D’Arcy, Patrick Lyster, Kate Tilley, Adrian Galley, Leon Clingham, Angelina Ingpen, Louis Joubert, Aubrey Shelton, Carel Nel.

 

Alfred Hitchcock’s fascination with Tippi Hedren, the young blonde woman who made a remarkable transformation from fashion model to actor, is the premise of the biopic The Girl.

The Girl, Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(392 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)