Tag Archives: Felicity Montague

Beyond Paradise: Christmas Special 2023. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kris Marshall, Sally Breton, Zahra Ahmadi, Dylan Llewellyn, Felicity Montague, Barbara Flynn, James Fleet, Eva Feiler, Kulvinder Ghir, Jade Harrison, Miranda Hennessy, Chris Jenks, Colin Matthews, Oscar Meredith, Sheila Reid, Melina Sinadinou, Isaac Vincent-Norgate, Amalia Vitale.

We make a display of forgiveness as one would give presents out at a specific time of year, not because we wish to absolve the sin, but because we wish to have our heart and mind settle in peace; the darkness and reflective hours spent in the will of counting out all we have left in the dust of our lives becomes more fragile, more delicate, as we soon realise that the year is coming once more to its close.

Beyond Paradise: Christmas Special 2023. Television Drama Review. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Beyond Paradise. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kris Marshall, Sally Breton, Zahra Ahmadi, Dylan Llewellyn, Felicity Montague, Barbara Flynn, Jamie Bamber, Jade Harrison, Annette Badland, Ingrid Oliver, Phil Daniels, Monserat Lombard, Ruth Madoc, Pooky Quesnel, Marcia Warren, Samantha Spiro, Don Warrington, Ralf Little, Shantol Jackson, Tahj Miles, Spencer Jones.

“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”

Beyond Paradise. Television Series Review. full post

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

Vanity Fair. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Olivia Cooke, Tom Bateman, Johnny Flynn, Claudia Jessie, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale, Ellie Kendrick, Robert Pugh, Charlie Rowe, Sian Clifford, Martin Clunes, David Flynn, Matthew Baynton, Monica Dolan, Patrick FitzSymons, Felicity Montague, Claire Skinner, Peter Wright, Toby Williams, Elizabeth Barrington, Richie Campbell, Frances de la Tour, Mike Grady, Anthony Head, Suranne Jones.

Vanity Fair. Television Review. full post

(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Dad’s Army, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Toby Jones, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtney, Mark Gatiss, Blake Harrison, Daniel Mays, Sarah Lancashire, Emily Atack, Ian Lavender, Bill Paterson, Frank Williams, Alison Steadman, Annette Crosby, Holli Dempsey, Martin Savage, Felicity Montague, Oliver Tobias, Julia Foster.

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be but sometimes by revisiting the past you are in danger of completely undermining all the excellent work that once went on before; the package and the idea may look appealing but the beyond the sentimental, the finished article is a pale and perhaps at times, irritating shadow.

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(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Mapp And Lucia, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast; Miranda Richardson, Anna Chancellor, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Pippa Haywood, Nicholas Woodeson, Gemma Whelen,  Poppy Miller, Felicity Montague, Paul Ritter, Jenny Platt, Susan Porrett, Maxine Roach,  Joanna Scanlan, Simon Startin, Harish Patel, Frances Barber, Gavin Broker, Soo Drouet, Andy Godfrey, Sophie Leigh Stone, Peter Mould.

The English and their manners, it is a wonder at times that we haven’t tied ourselves up in knots and caused a type of inner combustion with the subtle one-upman, or indeed in the case of the three part television series Mapp And Lucia, one up-womanship that so leads to conflict with our neighbours and dearest friends. It is possibly the modern etiquette attached to an English Civil War, if we cannot get rid of a Government taking the country apart, lets kick down the social ladder.

Mapp And Lucia, Television Review. full post

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