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Joker: Folie à Deux. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan, Harry Lawtey, Leigh Gill, Ken Leung, Jacob Lofland, Bill Smotrovich, Sharon Washington, Alfred Rubin Thompson.

Imagine the longest middle finger to be attached to the largest, most muscled, sizeable hand, and then seeing it for all its worth as it is raised up in the face of all, a large moment in which we understand we have been probably taken for a ride; one set of the audience will see it with anguish and fury, feeling the ridicule personally…the other knowing at the end that the joke was on them and revelling in the cinema reveal in which the emotional needs and wounds have been opened and the flesh ripped apart.

Joker: Folie à Deux. Film Review. full post

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

Bullet Train. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Benito A. Martinez, Sandra Bullock, Zazie Beetz, Logan Lerman, Masi Oka, Karen Fukuhara, Kevin Akiyoshi Ching, Minchi Murakami, Kaori Takentani, Toshitaka Katsumi, Jim Garrity, Emalina Adams, Jenson Cheng, Nobuaki Shimamoto, Yoshi Sudarso, Johanna Watts, Ian Gabriel Martinez, Tania Verafield, Pancho Cardena, Julio Gbaey, Andrea Munoz, Nancy Daly, Arnold Chum, Naomi Matsuda, Benmio McCrea, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Primus Johnson, Miles Marz, Michelle Lee, Parker Lin, Garland Scott, Jason Matthew Smith, Zooey Miyoshi, Kamil Aydin, David Leitch.

Bullet Train. Film Review. full post

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

Joker. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Marc Maron, Frances Conroy, Shae Whigham, Brett Cullen, Douglas Hodge, Dante Pereira-Olson, Bill Camp, Glenn Fleshler, Josh Pais.

If comedy has become a matter for the subjective disguised as hate or even animosity that has been disguised by the mask of envy then so has all art forms, from the video game, to the novel and onwards to the relative study of looking back at an old master’s work of art, for some now is not a means of expression but a chance to decry and even destroy something without really looking at it with an eye of understanding. It is in this that the joke perhaps has become a by-word for abuse, and that the Joker is nothing more than evil dressed up in outlandish rags and a symbol of modern sickness.

Joker. Film Review. full post

(739 words, estimated 2:57 mins reading time)

Deadpool 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Josh Brolin, Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Zazie Beetz, Brianna Hildebrand, Brad Pitt, Bill Skarsgård, Matt Damon, T.J.Miller, Terry Crews, Rob Delaney, Alan Tudyk, Julian Dennison, Lewis Tan, Jack Kesy, Eddie Marsan, Shioli Kutsuna, Hayley Sales, Stefan Kapicic, Karan Soni, Sala Baker, Nicholas Hoult, James McAvoy, Evan Peters, Tye Sheridan.

In the land of the sequel, the audience is normally attuned to the fact that by and large the film will be below par, sometimes disastrously with a plot that was based on profit potential, sometimes just out of plain high expectation, but the result will be the same, that like most films, the sequel is never in the same class as the original.

Deadpool 2. Film Review. full post

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