Tag Archives: Charles Edwards

The Terror. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Paul Ready, Adam Nagaitis, Ian Hart, Nive Nielsen, Ciaran Hinds, Christos Lawton, Matthew McNulty, David Walmsey, Liam Garrigan, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Stephen Thompson, Ronan Raftery, Mikey Collins, Edward Ashley, Chris Corrigan, Alistair Petrie, Charlie Kelly, Kevin Guthrie, Declan Hannigan, Anthony Flanagan, Aaron Jeffcoate, Greta Scacchi, Trystan Gravelle, Charles Edwards, John Lynch, Guy Falkner, Sian Brooke, Reed Diamond, William MacDonald, Johnny Issaluk, Richard Sutton, Tom Weston-Jones.

The Witches (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Octavia Spencer, Anne Hathaway, Chris Rock, Jahzir Bruno, Stanley Tucci, Brian Bovell, Joseph Zinvebma, Josette Simon, Jonathan Livingstone, Miranda Sarfo Peprah, Ashanti Prince-Asafo, Lunga Skosana, Vivienne Acheampong, Ken Nwosu, Arnaud Adrian, Charles Edwards, Morgana Robinson, Codie-Lei Eastwick, Sobowale Antonio Bamgbose, Orla O’Rourke, Eurdice El-Etr, Ana-Maria Maskell, Eugenia Caruso, Angus Wright, Cyril Nri.

To compare like with like is only human, and whilst art is not a competition, it cannot be dismissed when holding in your thoughts two versions of a much loved and admired source material to which both versions claim to be authentic and with the spirit of the author in their production.

Ripper Street: The Incontrovertible Truth. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, David Wilmot, Clive Russell, Josh O’ Connor, Laura Haddock, Lydia Wilson, Charles Edwards, Daniel Kendrick, Richard Goulding, Alex Cusack

In some respects not much has changed in Whitechapel in 120 years, certainly not where the idea of ghoulish tourism is concerned. Where today the area benefits from the daily Jack the Ripper tours and the sightseers wanting to take on the mantle of roving armchair detective in London’s, even the U.K.’s, more interesting area and immersing themselves into the history of arguably the most notorious murderers to stalk the Earth, it still feels as though it is erring towards the macabre spectacle.

Arthur And George, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Martin Clunes, Charles Edwards, Art Malik, Hattie Morahan, Emma Fielding, Alan McKenna, Conleth Hill, Hilary Maclean, Pearl Chada, Timothy Watson, Matthew Marsh, John Hollingworth, Ciaran Owens, Aaron Chawla, Lewis Crossland, Nicholas Chambers, Simon Meacock, Dean Ashton, Alexander Aze, Abbey Marise Butler, Michael Hadley, Lewis Kempster, Sonia Ritter, Timothy Walker.

Some writer’s lives are even more colourful and incident packed than those they create, some have the lives thrust upon them and some, a select few, such as Arthur Conan Doyle have lives that make reading a sheer work of art.