Tag Archives: Alex Macqueen

Becoming Elizabeth. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alice von Rittennberg, John Heffernan, Oliver Zetterström, Jamie Parker, Romola Garai, Leo Bill, Ekow Quartey, Tom Cullen, Jacob Avery, Jamie Blackley, Alexandra Gilbreath, Bella Ramsey, Alex Macqueen, Jessica Raine, Ryan Nolan, Olivier Huband, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Stanley Townsend, Ben Moor, Robert Whitelock, Alfie Todd, Oliver Bennett, Lucy Speed.

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.

Doctor Who: Vampire Of The Mind. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Colin Baker, Alex MacQueen, Neil Edmond, Kate Kennedy, Catriona Knox, Elliot Levey, John Standing.

That moment when an old adversary is in town and you don’t know whether to avoid them like the plague, or greet them on their patch with a knowing smile in which you are the one carrying the means of their destruction, the choice is flattering, the decision is absolute, and it is one that we rarely get to follow through upon because of propriety, because we are human.

The Trial Of Christine Keeler. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Sophie Cookson, James Norton, Ellie Bamber, Emilia Fox, Ben Miles, Sam Troughton, Anthony Welsh, Jack Greenlees, Chloe Harris, Rosalind Halstead, Anton Lesser, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Sam Crane, Amanda Drew, Michael Maloney, Charlene Boyd, Aiden McCardle, Tim McInnerny, Danny Webb, Paul Ryan, Visar Vishka, Peter Davison, Alex Macqueen, Neil Morrisey, Danny Webb.

Film Review. Horrible Histories: The Movie-Rotten Romans.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Sebastian Croft, Emilia Jones, Nick Frost, Craig Roberts, Kate Nash, Kim Cattrall, Derek Jacobi, Rupert Graves, Warwick Davis, Alexander Armstrong, Kevin Bishop, Alex MacQueen, Lee Mack, Chris Addison, Ella Smith, Sanjeev Bhasker, Tony Way, Lucy Montgomery, Tony Gardner, Ben Ashenden, Samantha Spiro, Katy Wix.

 

All Is True, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Lydia Wilson, John Dagleish, Kathryn Wilder, Sam Ellis, Alex MacQueen, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Margaret Wheeler, Gerard Horan, Doug Colling, Lolita Chacrabarti, Philip Dunster, Freya Durkan, Flora Easton, Matt Jessup, Sabi Perez, Michael Rouse, Kate Tydman.

It is a beautiful story and one that will break the heart of anyone with half a romantic soul in their body and yet like all beautiful whispers that we seek to take advantage of by seemingly learning something of the poet’s soul, fiction, that forgiving beast of bounty, leads to a comedy of inaccuracies and yet we still pursue it as if it were a fair maiden covered in buttercup petals or a rueful youth displaying muscles and brawn on the beach.

Slaughterhouse Rulez. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Michael Sheen, Hermione Corfield, Simon Pegg, Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Nick Frost, Jo Hartley, Hanko Footman, Isabella Laughland, Jamie Blackley, Jassa Ahluwalia, Tom Rhys Harries, Kit Connor, Jane Staness, Sophie Rutter, Alex MacQueen, Margot Robbie.

We are playing dangerous games with the Devil, not the fabled creature who fell foul of a Celestial’s wrath, not the inhabitant of that Church and Bible inspired cess pit of flames and torture but instead our very own devil, our naked ambition, our rape of the land and the unquenchable thirst to dominate our will upon the throne of greed and violation. Our willingness to fracture the land in the pursuit of gas is one that will be an undoing, one in which will unleash a poison unless stopped, and one that audiences will find perfectly ripe for exploiting in a comedy-horror.

Eric, Ernie And Me. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Stephen Tompkinson, Mark Bonnar, Neil Maskell, Rufus Jones, Liz White, Alex Macqueen, Adam James, Katherine Kingsley, Natasha Joseph, Susan Twist, Isobel Middleton, Lisa Jackson, Louis Emerick, Darren Bransford, John Culshaw, Rosalind Halstead.

Who makes a song a popular hit, is it the singer that captures the soaring notes and melancholy beauty or is it the writer who sits alone and stares at a blank piece of paper waiting for inspiration to come knocking, scribbling down a line, scrawling and scoring, the provider of the smash in waiting. It is the chicken and egg question, who makes who the success?

Doctor Who: The Lost Stories, Paradise 5. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Alex Macqueen, James D’Arcy, Helen Goldwyn, Andree Bernard, Teddy Kempner, Claire Wyatt, Richard Earl.

You can always trust humanity to turn to the more unsavoury pursuits of existence, murder, slavery, greed, power, materialism and brutality, in the time it takes to say there is money to be made from people’s misery and where is the will; for in the vice of stone hearted souls nothing comes close to feeding damnation than the love of money.

Babs, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Samantha Spiro, Nick Moran, Leanne Best, Jamie Winstone, Luke Allen-Gale, Zoe Wanamaker, Robin Sebastian, Daniel Ben Zenou, Toby Wharton, Nicholas Asbury Jerry-Jane Peers, Alex Macqueen, Ross green, Rob Hughes, Tom Forbes, Joe Stilgoe, Julia Ford, Rob Compton, Charlie Archer, Honor Kneafsey, Jonathan Rhodes, Barbara Windsor.