Tag Archives: Richard E. Grant

Queen And Country. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt, David Thewlis, Richard E. Grant, Vanessa Kirby, Tasmin Egerton, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Sinéad Cusack, David Hayman, John Standing, Brian F.O’ Byrne, David Michael Claydon, Julian Wadham, Tom Stuart, Alfie Stuart, Gerran Howell, Simon Paisley Day, Maria Flacau, Constantin Florescu.

The life of Bill Rohan was always going to be exceptional, especially when he is the alter ego of British film maker John Boorman, it just always seemed a shame that the account of his life seemed to stop in mid flight in the superb 1987 British film Hope and Glory.

Queen And Country. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

About Time, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lindsay Duncan, Lydia Wilson, Richard Cordery, Joshua McGuire, Tom Hollander, Margaret Robbie, Will Merrick, Vanessa Kirby, Tommy Hughes, Clemmie Dugdale, Harry Hadden-Paton, Mitchell Mullen, Lisa Eichom, Jenny Rainsford, Catherine Steadman, Graham Richard Howgego, Kenneth Hazeldine, Natasha Powell, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths.

About Time, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool. full post

(657 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

Doctor Who, The Name Of The Doctor. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, John Hurt, Alex Kingston, Richard E. Grant, Neve McIntosh, Catrin Stewart, Dan Starkey, Eve de Leon, Kassius Carey Johnson, Nasi Voustsas, David Avery, Michael Jenn, Rab Affleck, Samuel Irvine, Sophie Downham, Paul Kasey.

Doctor Who, The Name Of The Doctor. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

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

Doctor Who, The Bells Of Saint John. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Celia Imrie, Richard E. Grant, Robert Whitlock, Dan Li, Manpreet Bachu, Sean Knopp, James Greene, Geff Francis, Eve de Leon Allen, Kassius Carey Johnson, Danielle Eames, Fred Pearson, Jade Anouka, Olivia Hill, Isabella Blake-Thomas, Matthew Earley, Antony Edridge.

The new series, or should that be the second part of the previous series or even the build-up to the 50^th Anniversary of the longest running science fiction show on British television has returned after its winter sabbatical and it seems it is going to become about obsession.

Doctor Who, The Bells Of Saint John. Television Review. full post

(748 words, estimated 3:0 mins reading time)

Richard Griffiths, Star Of Withnail And I And The History Boys, Dies Aged 65.

Richard Griffiths, one of the most popular and acclomplished actors of his generation, has died at the age of 65 after complications following heart surgery.

The star of such films as the iconic Withnail and I, Alan Bennett’s The History Boys and the B.B.C. television series Pie in the Sky was perhaps best known in recent years as Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter film adaptations.

Richard Griffiths was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in North Yorkshire to parents who were both deaf. He learned to sign at a very young age in order to communicate with them. Like many of his generation left school at 15 but was fortunate to return to education later in life to study drama before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Richard Griffiths, Star Of Withnail And I And The History Boys, Dies Aged 65. full post

(632 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Doctor Who, The Snowmen. B.B.C. Television. Christmas 2012. Television Review.

Picture courtesy of B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Richard E. Grant, Dan Starkey, Neve McIntosh, Catrin Stewart, Tom Ward, Liz White, Sir Ian McKellen, Juliet Cadzow, Joseph Dacey-Alden, Ellie Darcey-Alden, Annabelle Dowler.

What do you do when the girl you meet twice keeps dying? It’s enough to make a good man come out of retirement and regain that boyish inquisitiveness once more.

Doctor Who, The Snowmen. B.B.C. Television. Christmas 2012. Television Review. full post

(464 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

The Fear (Episode Four), Channel Four. Television Review.

Picture from Channel 4.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Mullan, Anastasia Hille, Harry Lloyd, Paul Nicholls, Richard E. Grant, Demosthenes Chrysan, Dragos Bucar, Shaban Arifi, Julia Ragnarsson, Danny Sapani, Nigel Lindsay, Osy Ikhile, Sidney Kean, Lisa McAllister, Catherine Winter, Amarildo Kola.

Richard Cotton’s acclaimed television drama, The Fear, reached its final destructive conclusion whilst retaining the excellent writing from beginning to end and not entertaining the idea of slipping into the realms of outlandish fantasy. It is for this that the writer and cast must be applauded fully for giving a distinctive and sensitive portrayal of Alzheimer’s Disease and yet also giving a huge shot in the arm to a hopeful resurgence in the British Noir art form.

The Fear (Episode Four), Channel Four. Television Review. full post

(386 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Fear (Episode Three), Channel Four. Television Review.

Picture from Channel 4.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The tension that had been building in the framework of The Fear reaches almost fever pitch proportions as the escalating war between the Kosovan’s and Richie’s family starts to mirror the war going on inside his head.

The Fear (Episode Three), Channel Four. Television Review. full post

(472 words, 1 image, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

The Fear (Episode Two), Channel Four. Television Review.

Picture from Channel 4.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Episode two of The Fear sees the further mental disintegration of crime lord Richie Beckett and the disturbing brutality that passes between the two warring families taken up to an even higher gear.

The Fear (Episode Two), Channel Four. Television Review. full post

(413 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

The Other Woman, Television Review. Sky Arts Television.

Originally published by L.S.Media. June 8th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Trevor Eve, Geraldine James, Tom Ellis, Richard E. Grant.

When art imitates life, are those that are the subject of the creative mind really aware of what they have become? This was the question that vexed Geraldine James and Trevor Eve in the latest of series of plays shown by the Sky Arts channel.

The Other Woman, Television Review. Sky Arts Television. full post

(441 words, 1 image, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)