Tag Archives: Peter Firth

Summer Of Rockets. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Toby Stephens, Keeley Hawes, Lily Sacofsky, Linus Roache, Gary Beadle, Toby Woolf, Lucy Cohu, Mark Bonnar, Claire Bloom, Suanne Braun, Timothy Spall, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Leo Staar, Greg Austin, Peter Firth, Molly Casey, Safiyya Ingar, Ronald Pickup, Matthew James Thomas, Jordan Coulson, Fode Simbo, Tony Maudsey, Adrian Edmondson, James Faulkner, Richard Cordery, Cai Brigden,

It takes a special kind of writer to be able to bring to focus the everyday item which we take for granted and then make it part of a story which employs all the finest elements of the dark forces that govern our lives and installs the direction in which a Government and its people are taking.

Summer Of Rockets. Television Review. full post

(581 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Dickensian, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tuppence Middleton, Stephen Rae, Sophie Rundle, Alexandra Moen, Joseph Quinn, Tom Weston-Jones, Pauline Collins, Robert Wilfort, Omid Djalili, Peter Firth, Jennifer Hennessy, Caroline Quentin, Richard Ridings, Anton Lesser, Laurel Jordan, Adrian Rawlins, Mark Stanley, Christopher Fairbank, Ned Dennehy, John Heffernan, Ben Starr, Brenock O’Connor, Bethany Muir, Phoebe Dynevor, Ellie Haddington, Richard Cordery, Wilson Radjou-Pujalte, Sam Hoare, Antonia Bernath.

To understand the present, you have to know what happened before, you have to know the story of how a person got to the position in life they inhabit on the day you met them, after that their life makes sense, it has significance.

Dickensian, Television Review. full post

(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Spooks: The Greater Good, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Kit Harrington, Peter Firth, Tuppence Middleton, Jennifer Ehle, David Harewood, Tim McInnerny, Lara Pulver, Elyes Gabel, Eleanor Matsuura, Laura Swift, Shina Shihoko Nagai, Ronan Summers, Elizabeth Conbiy, Michael Wildman, Cosmo Jarvis, Lasco Atkins, Elliot Levvy, Graham Curry, Lee Asquith-Coe, Hugh Simon.

Just because the threat to national security is not to be seen, doesn’t mean it’s not there. The same goes it seems for television programmes; just because they are not on every week and being part of the nation’s lunch time natter, doesn’t mean that stories haven’t been envisaged, it just means that when the opportunity strikes, it is wheeled out without due recourse or consideration.

Spooks: The Greater Good, Film Review. full post

(514 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)