Tag Archives: Derek Jacobi

The War Master: Anti-Genesis. Series Four. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Derek Jacobi, Mark Gatiss, Sean Carlsen, Nicholas Briggs, Zaraah Abrahams, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Vokash Bhai, Daniel Brocklebank, Richard Clifford, Ben Crystal, Christopher Harper, Will Kirk, Jordan Renzo, Gavin Swift, Franchi Webb.

To defeat a Master, you have to find someone of equal stature and terrifyingly frenetic mind; after all, no matter how many times The Doctor seems to vanquish his old friend and best enemy, somehow, no matter the incarnation, they always seem to fall short of complete victory.

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

The War Master: The Master Of Callous. Series Two. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Derek Jacobi, Silas Carson, Pippa Haywood, Maeve Bluebell Wells, Samantha Beart, Angela Bruce, Richard Earl, Barnaby Edwards, Tom Forrister, Simon Ludders, David Menkin, Kai Owen, Wilf Scolding, Joe Shire.

It is a falsehood of our times that we are force-fed, almost as doctrine, as a mantra of deceitful moment of hope, that good people win in the end, that the lies of the social anarchist who pulls down walls whilst standing on the side-lines, acting in their own self-interest whilst orchestrating the ritual desecration of the soul of the good, will eventually be punished, subjected to an eternity of suffering for the wrongs that have been committed, is nothing more than a substantial, and cunning, lie.

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

The War Master: Only The Good. Series One. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Derek Jacobi, Jonny Green, Nicholas Briggs, Rachel Atkins, Jonathan Bailey, Hannah Barker, Robert Daws, Jacob Dudman, Mark Elstob, Nerys Hughes, Jacqueline King, Deidre Mullins.

What is a hero without their counterpoint, after all they come from the same stock, the same blood runs through their veins, it is only reasonable to assume that without the supposed hero running through their lives, that they too have adventures in which are just as remarkable, just as defining as those we come to seek from the protagonist we hope will save the day, and perhaps our souls at the same time.

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(654 words, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

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.

 

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(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Tolkien. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Pam Ferris, Adrian Schiller, Colm Meaney, Owen Teale, Derek Jacobi, Craig Roberts, Harry Gilby, Laura Donnelly, Guillermo Bedward, Nia Gwynne, Kallum Tolkien, Tony Nash, Michael Bryceson, Andrew Bissell, Patrick Gibson, Anthony Boyle, Tom Glynn-Carney, James MacCallum.

Subconsciously driven by the exotic use of imagination or shaped by the events we observe, there is a tale in each of us that demands to be told, and in which regrettably few of us choose to pursue.

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(610 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

Les Misérables. Television Review. (2019).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Dominic West, Adeel Akhtar, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins, Olivia Coleman, David Bradley, Ellie Bamber, Erin Kellyman, Emma Fielding, Enzo Cilenti, Donald Sumpter, Andre Pasquasy, Turlough Convery, Archie Madekwe, Josh O’Connor, Joseph Quinn,  Natalie Simpson, Angela Wynter, Reece Yates, Derek Jacobi, Jerome Flynn, Darren Kent, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Josef Altin, Anna Calder-Marshall, Alan David, Ron Cook, Archie Madekwe, Lorcan Cranitch, Hayley Carmichael.

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(601 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Tomb Raider (2018). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristen Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, Billy Postlethwaite, Josef Altin, Jaime Winstone, Samuel Mak, Sky Yang, Civic Chung, Maisy De Freitas, Emily Carey, Nick Frost.

 

When the action on screen is more enjoyable than the overall story; that is the time in which to surrender the plot and just get out of the film what you can. It happens more often than you might think but rarely in such a brazen way in which the reboot of Tomb Raider has foisted upon the world and if it wasn’t for the admittedly spectacular stunts pulled off in part by Alicia Vikander, the whole film could be seen as a dramatic failure, only kept alive by the fandom of the indomitable presence that Lara Croft has had on the games industry across three decades.

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(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Murder On The Orient Express (2017). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Willem Defoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odem, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Marwan Kenzari, Olivia Colman, Lucy Boynton, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Sergei Polunin, Tom Bateman, Miranda Raison, Paapa Essiedu, Michael Rouse, Joseph Long, Elliot Levey, David Annen, Kathryn Wilder, Phil Dunster.

It is a story that evokes images that many of us will never see, never experience and one that captures the raw cold hate of many emotions, as well as the beauty of the scenery that is on offer as one of the most famous pieces of engineering takes its passengers through Europe.

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(492 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Cinderella, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård, Nonso Anozie, Sophie McShera, Holiday Grainger, Derek Jacobi, Ben Chaplin, Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon, Jana Perez, Alexander MacQueen, Tom Edden, Gareth Mason, Paul Hunter, Eloise Webb, Joshua McGuire, Matthew Steer, Mimi Ndiweni, Laura Elsworthy, Ella Smith, Ann Davies, Gerard Horan, Katie West, Daniel Tuite, Anjana Vasan, Stuart Neal, Adetomiwa Edun, Richard McCabe, Joseph Kloska, Andy Apollo, Craig Mather, Jonny Owen-Last, Nari Blair-Mangat, Michael Jenn, Josh O’ Connor.

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(649 words, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

I, Claudius. Television Review. B.B.C.4.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Derek Jacobi, George Baker, John Hurt, Brian Blessed, Patrick Stewart, Siân Phillips, Patricia Quinn, Christopher Biggins, Ian Ogilvy, James Faulkner, Simon MacCorkindale, Sheila Ruskin, Angela Morant, Graham Seed, Jo Rowbottom, Bernard Hill, Norman Rossington, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hepton, Barbara Young, John Cater, Kevin McNally.

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(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)