Tag Archives: Reece Shearsmith

Inside No.9.: The Last Weekend. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Sheila Reid.

“Beware the fury of a patient man”.

The question of how long and how far you would go in order to exact revenge on the one that destroyed you is one that is dangled before us in the darkness, perhaps whispered by a friend when the Devil is on their shoulder, the one who wants to know just how far you are prepared to go so they can either aid you, or have their statement and story ready when the police come knocking on their own door.

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(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Inside No.9 : Love Is A Stranger. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Claire Rushbrook, Frances Barber, Matthew Horne, Asim Chaudhry.

The insular and the perpetually lonely, the shy and the sexually sly, have never had it so good when it comes to the advent of online dating. As near to anonymity as it is possible to go, the filters, the regulations, the privacy, all is in favour of finding the one, the perfect match which little engagement and effort; for nobody expects to find love online, no one imagines unearthing the one to die for in such a short space of time.

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(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Mother’s Ruin. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Anita Dobson, Phil Daniels.

It’s too late to ask your parents to reveal their secrets when they have left this mortal coil, but what lengths would you go to ask them for the truth when they are in Heaven or Hell, or the Limbo in between.

In typical resounding style, Inside No.9’s Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith take the opportunity to delve into the realm of the nightmare and the visionary in the latest episode of the successfully long running series, wonderfully titled, Mother’s Ruin.

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(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: The Bones of St. Nicholas. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Simon Callow, Shobna Gulati.

Never mind Halloween, if you want to feel the chill of fear wrap its clawed hand around your heart and mind, then Christmas is the time in which the intoxication of the spirit is more than just filling a glass of your favourite tipple, it is the beginning and the end of all things rational.

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(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

See How They Run. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, Harris Dickinson, Pearl Chanda, Adrien Brody, David Oyelowo, Ruth Wilson, Reece Shearsmith, Charlie Cooper, Tim Key, Sian Clifford, Angus Wright, Shirley Henderson, Lucien Msamati, Paul Chahidi, Kieran Hodgson, Gregory Cox, Maggie McCarthy, Olver Jackson, Tomi Ogbaro, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Ania Marson, Philip Desmeules, Laura Morgan, Pippa-Bennett-Warner, Tolu Ogunmefun.

See How They Run. Film Review. full post

(571 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: A Random Act Of Kindness. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jessica Hynes, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Noah Valentine.

Kindness is its own reward, but it rarely comes out of a place of virtue, of absolute benevolence to humanity, it always comes with a catch, even it is unthought at the time, it is an action that comes with a price heavily attached with that reward, and one that at any time can be cashed in and exacted as payment.

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(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Inside No. 9: Kid/Nap. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Danny Mays, Daisy Haggard, Jason Isaacs.

A resounding fear that we push away is that somewhere, somehow, someone values us in a way that is not safe, that is harmful, a momentary possession that is against our will, and which goes further than most crimes, because of the perceived monetary worth and lack of respect that comes with the sovereignty of the body, and one that could in all concerns descend rapidly into torture, rape, and even death.

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(410 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Inside No. 9: Nine Lives Kat. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Sophie Okonedo, Robin Weaver, Siobhan Redmond, Coco-Lili Hoder.

The space between the writer and their creation is one so small that they can often overlap, they become one and the same, the observation of one enhances the act of the other, and in this merging of souls the space narrows to the most infinite of spaces possible.

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(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Mr King. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Annette Badland, Elin Owen, Charlie Baron, Rosie Ekenna, William Newton.

We are continually told to cherish our children, they are after all, our future, the ones who will inherit our mess, the ones who will pay the price for our folly, our ignorance, and mismanagement.

In the world of the macabre and chilling, children though are perhaps the more gruesome of observers in the game of life, ghoulish in the spitefulness, morbid in their fascination of what makes their adult counterparts tick; it is no wonder that some of the finest horror films have had children, or the childlike, at the very heart of their narrative.

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Merrily, Merrily. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Diane Moran, Patrice Naiambana.

A reunion, of sorts, and one that perhaps many thought might never occur, but it should never have been in doubt that Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, and Mark Gatiss, the delightful acting team behind The League Of Gentlemen, would one day be seen together in the same scenes, and providing a deeply satisfying look at the darker side of life.

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