Tag Archives: Sean Gilder

Passenger. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Wunmi Mosaku, David Threlfall, Rowan Robison, Barry Sloane, Natalie Gavin, Matilda Freeman, Ella Bruccoleri, Daniel Ryan, Jack James Ryan, Adian Nik, Sophie Ellicott, Hubert Hanowisz, Luke Ayres, Debbie Rush, Sean Gilder, Nico Mirallegro, Shelley Williams, Clare Burt, Gemma Wardle, Anna Tymoshenko, Neil Sandland, Shervin Alenabi, Terri-Ann Brumby, Ray Castleton, Synnove Karlsen, Harry Egan, Tom Lister, Karen Henthorn, Michael Hodgson, Richard McIver, Pam Shaw, Andrew Readman, Alexandra Hannant, Lisa Allen, Natalie Grady, Nadia Albuna, David Atkins, Elijah Braik, Kirsty Hoiles, Narinder Samra, Alejandra Becelar Pereira.

Passenger. Television Drama Review. full post

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

His Dark Materials (Series Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vison Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amir Wilson, Andrew Scott, Kit Connor, Ariyon Bakare, Will Keen, Ruta Gedmintas, Jade Anouka, Sean Gilder, Simone Kirby, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Terence Stamp, Joe Tandberg, Scope Dirisu, Sophie Okenedo, Lindsay Duncan, Jane How, Brian Protheroe, Angus Wright, James McAvoy.

If you are going to be distracted from the on-going torture to which nature and time have placed humanity in 2020, then you should find solace in the fantasy epics being produced; some against some of the most unforeseen pressures to have ever been witnessed by the small screen.

His Dark Materials (Series Two). Television Review. full post

(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

The Last Kingdom, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Alexander Dreymon, Ian Hart, David Dawson, Adrian Bower, Brian Vernal, Eliza Butterworth, Emily Cox, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Harry McEntire, Tobias Santlemann, Simon Kunz, Amy Wren, Matthew Macfadyen, Rune Temte, Henning Valin Jakobsen, Charlie Murphy, Sean Gilder, Lorcan Cranitch, Alec Newman.

To love history, to love the chronicles of English Literature that delve further back than even that of the great works of art beloved by Geoffrey Chaucer or the stunning Beowulf, one must then surely admire just how the kingdom of England was forged in the fire of heat and war, to the point where even a committed pacifist could take up a sword to defend a hillside or see the Somerset Levels not as a housing estate but as a naturally occurring set of defences.

The Last Kingdom, Television Review. full post

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

Midsomer Murders: The Ballad Of Midsomer County. Television Review.

MLivepool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman, Tamzin Malleson, Dean Andrews, Rakie Ayola, Lucie Jones, Claudie Blakley, Clarke Peters, Therese Bradley, Daniel Brocklebank, Chris Cartwright, Anthony Farrelly, Sean Gilder, Stephen Hagan, John W. G, Harley, Michael Haydon, , Richard Banks, Rosalind March, Stuart St. Paul, Ricky Raipal, Mick Slaney, Anick Wiget.

Death always needs a great theme tune. It is the signifier to a very good film or television detective series that an oncoming loss of life by nefarious means is accompanied by a memorable song or instrumental piece. If The Omen had a soundtrack, that say for example, was light and pithy would it have made young Damien seem more brutal or somehow as cuddly as a panda with an overbearing affection disorder?

Midsomer Murders: The Ballad Of Midsomer County. Television Review. full post

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