Tag Archives: Rory Kinnear

Our Flag Means Death. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Con O’Neill, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Nathan Foad, Matthew Maher, Kristian Nairn, Samba Schutte, Ewen Bremner, Vico Ortiz, Nat Faxon, Rory Kinnear, Guz Khan, David Fane, Eden Grace Redfield, William Barber-Holler, Leslie Jones, Connor Barrett, Boris McGiver, Fred Armisen, Michael Crane, Theo Darby, Angus Sampson, Nick Kroll, Simone Kessell, Kristen Schaal, Kristen Johnston, Mateo Gallegos, Damien Gerard, Carlos Areliano, Ashna Sharan, Christian Lagadec, Jeff Lorch, Cornelius Peter.

History is but a consecutive set of lies passed off as fact and written down in accordance by historians to dispute at leisure.

Our Flag Means Death. Television Review. full post

(474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

No Time To Die. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malik, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomi Harris, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, David Dencik, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, Lisa-Dorah Sonnet, Coline Defaud, Mathilde Bourbin, Hugh Dennis, Priyanga Burford.

Debates will rage on long after his replacement in the franchise is announced, a new favourite taking in the mantle as Ian Fleming’s suave, and sometimes brutal, hero, but as the final moments of No Time To Die roll, as the memories re-emerge of intricately drawn characters, of timely antagonists capturing the era with sublime fierceness, and of a screen hero facing arguably his own mortality, what we should arguably be recognising is that Daniel Craig as 007 is the greatest version of super British spy, James Bond, we might ever be treated to.

No Time To Die. Film Review. full post

(563 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

The Mezzotint. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Rory Kinnear, Frances Barber, Robert Bathurst, John Hopkins, Nikesh Patel, Emma Cunliffe, Tommaso Di Vincenzo.

It is the embracement of life, of being thankful for what you have, and not the chance to add want to the overburdened and groaning table or under pressure waiter serving you another daily dose of charm, reality, and thought, that makes Christmas special, for in reality we see the shadows that skulk at the door, we feel the draft at our feet whilst the heart is cosy, and in that heartbeat that makes us inhale deeply, that causes a string of sweat to form on the brow, we find the night before the ‘big day’ the true meaning of being alive.

The Mezzotint. Television Review. full post

(589 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

Ridley Road. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Agnes O’Casey, Rory Kinnear, Eddie Marsan, Tom Varey, Rita Tushingham, Allan Corduner, Will Keen, Tracy Ann Oberman, Gabriel Akuwudike, Tamzin Outhwaite, James Craze, Danny Hatchard, Hannah Traylen, Samantha Spiro, Julia Krynke, Danny Sykes, Henry Wilton-Hunt, Hannah Onslow, Nigel Betts, Preston Nyman, Alastair Michael, Romane Portail, Stephen Hogan, Liza Sadovy, Ethan Moorhouse.

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(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Catherine The Great: Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Rory Kinnear, Gina McKee, Richard Roxborough, Joseph Quinn, Clive Russell, Kevin McNally, Aiste Gramantaite, Georgina Beedle, Camilla Borghesani, Thomas Doherty, Andrew Rothney, Paul Kaye, Adam El Hagar, Antonia Clarke, Phil Dunster, Georgina Hale, James Northcote.

Catherine The Great: Television Review. full post

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

Years And Years. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rory Kinnear, Jessica Hynes, Ruth Madeley, Russell Tovey, Emma Thompson, Maxim Baldry, Anne Reid, T’Nia Miller, Lydia West, Arran Ansari, Jade Alleyne, Dino Fetscher, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Rachel Logan, Callum Woolford, George Bukhari, Zita Sattar, Kieran O’Brien, Pauline Fleming, Ellie Haddington,  Jodie Prenger, Dan Starkey, John McGrellis.

Years And Years. Television Review. full post

(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Watership Down (2018). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, John Boyega, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Peter Capaldi, Mackenzie Crook, Anne-Marie Duff, Taron Egerton, Freddie Fox, Lee Ingleby, Miles Jupp, Daniel Kaluuya, Craig Parkinson, Daniel Rigby, Jason Watkins, Gemma Chan, James Alexander, Rosamund Pike, Andrew Walton, Olivia Colman, Lorraine Bruce, Rosie Day, Henry Goodman, Murray McArthur, Tom Wilkinson, James Faulkner, Lizzie Clarke, Rory Kinnear, Charlotte Spencer, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Peter Guinness, Sam Redford, Luke Neal.

Watership Down (2018). Television Review. full post

(509 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Peterloo. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Maxine Peake, Rory Kinnear, Pearce Quigley, Sam Troughton, Alistair Mackenzie, David Moorst, John Paul Hurley, Philip Jackson, Ian Mercer, Lizzie McInnerny, Victor McGuire, Tim McInnerny, Jeff Rawle, David Bamber, Dorothy Duff, Julie Hesmondhaigh, Lee Boardman, Steve Huison, Rachel Finnigan, Robert Wilfort, Karl Johnson, Neil Bell, Fine Time Fontayne, Paul Brown.

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(726 words, estimated 2:54 mins reading time)

Inside No. 9: Zanzibar. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jaygann Ayeh, Reece Shearsmith, Rory Kinnear, Bill Paterson, Marcia Warren, Steve Pemberton, Hattie Morahan, Helen Monks, Tanya Franks, Kevin Eldon.

It is almost impossible to get anything 100 percent right in a half hour comedy, it needs so much to go according to plan, to hit every note possible and still have the conductor enough room to prise out just a little more from the lead and the passionate soprano on the edge of the stage.

Inside No. 9: Zanzibar. Television Review. full post

(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Quacks. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rory Kinnear, Lydia Leonard, Mathew Baynton, Tom Basdon, Rupert Everett, Marcia Warren, Lisa Jackson, Kayvan Novak, Georgie Glen, Milly Thomas, Andrew Scott, Miles Jupp, Fellena Woolgar, David Bamber, Ben Willbond, Geoff McGivern.

 

Every profession has the pop stars of their day, the showmen and women, the extroverts and the gregarious who live for the acclaim, the prestige and the privilege it brings. The artist, the poet, the actor, the musician and the surgeon, all have their theatres, all have one person who plays to the crowd and relishes the sense of power it brings.

Quacks. Television Review. full post

(545 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)