Tag Archives: Colin Salmon

The Lazarus Project. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paapa Essiedu, Anjili Mohindra, Caroline Quentin, Tom Burke, Charly Clive, Rudi Dharmalingam, Salóme Gunnarsdóttir, Lukas Loughran, Vinette Robinson, Priya-Rose Brookwell, Brian Gleeson, Elaine Tan, Sam Troughton, Zoe Telford, Colin Salmon, Safia Oakley-Green, Rosie Jones, Royce Pierreson, Nina Singh, Lorne MacFadyen, Paul Boche, James Atherton, Joseph Steyne, Steven H.Li, Amaree Ali, Amanda Drew, Stuart Whelan, Sadao Ueda.

Midsomer Murders: The Witches Of Angel’s Rise. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Clive Mantle, Caroline Lee-Johnson, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Sarah Paul, Ian Bartholomew, Colin Salmon, Janie Duvitski, Cian Barry, Tristan Sturrock, Richard David-Caine, Jordan Ford Silver, Bettrys Jones, Jessica Whitehurst, Erin Mullen, Holly Willoughby.

In every English village there surely must be at least one person to whom the belief of the dark arts marks them out as strange within the tightly wrapped community. The interest shown at a young age in magic, in spells, the lure of the Tarot cards and all that it entails, can leave the collective gossiping, pointing the finger at the outsider, and marking them out as one to avoid.

Mortal Engines. Film Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Robert Sheehan, Stephen Lang, Leila George, Frankie Adams, Caren Pistorius, Andrew Lees, Colin Salmon, Ronan Raftery, Joel Tobeck, Patrick Malahide, Nathaniel Lees, Stephen Ure, Yoson An, Philip Reeve, Menik Gooneratne, Rege-Jean Page, Mark Mitchinson, Mark Hadlow, Sarah Peirse, Leifur Sigurdarson, Sophie Cox.

London Has Fallen, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision *

Cast: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Morgan Freeman, Charlotte Riley, Alon Aboutboul, Waleed Zuaiter, Michael Wildman, Radha Mitchell, Clarkson Guy Williams, Patrick Kennedy, Colin Salmon.

It’s rare for a film to be seen in the minds of its audience as nothing more than propaganda, of pandering and fulfilling its purpose of being a tool for recruitment in a war that doesn’t make sense and one in which will have those with more sheltered lives running for cover and being subject to a fear that is only as real as Hollywood and Government wish it to be.

The Musketeers, A Good Traitor. Series Two, Episode Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Alexandra Dowling, Marc Warren, Hugo Speer, Colin Salmon, Tamla Kari, Maime McCoy, Finbar Lynch, Bohdan Poraj, Oliver Rix, Charlotte Salt, Ed Stoppard, Antonia Thomas, Celeste Dodwell, Will Keen.

 

The questions of race, equality and loyalty and how they are observed in Europe’s chaotic and often brutal past comes into play in the latest episode of The Musketeers, The Good Traitor and it is one that doesn’t skirt the issue in a time when religious fervour is perhaps mirrored in today’s society.