Tag Archives: Sharon Duncan-Brewster

Dune (2021). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, David Dastmalchian, Babs Olusanmokun, Golda Rosheuvel, Roger Yuan.

To adapt faithfully for cinema a novel so revered, covered in glory, and one that wears the word epic as if it were a robe sewn by hand for someone with more money than a small nation, is to perhaps court feelings of unrestrained excess, to forgo modesty in favour of magnified extravagance, and no matter how noble the intention, no matter how faithful, there on screen will be the accusations of pretension.

Dune (2021). Film Review. full post

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

Intergalactic. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Savannah Steyn, Imogen Davies, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Eleanor Tomlinson, Natasha O’Keefe, Diany Samba-Bandza, Parminder Nagra, Samantha Schnitzler, Thomas Turgoose, Craig Parkinson, Oliver Coopersmith, Neil Maskell, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Emily Bruni.

The future for humanity is one still yet to be decided, and whether we make it through the current sets of crises more or less unscathed; whether we take heed of the lessons being taught us as the Earth, our home, screams in pain through our abuse, remains to be seen. Yet still, the golden future could come to pass, there could be silver towers glimmering in the sunlight, we could all be equal under law until we break it, the science fiction utopia could be ours; if we are willing to sacrifice something else that’s precious instead.

Intergalactic. Television Series Review. full post

(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Years And Years. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rory Kinnear, Jessica Hynes, Ruth Madeley, Russell Tovey, Emma Thompson, Maxim Baldry, Anne Reid, T’Nia Miller, Lydia West, Arran Ansari, Jade Alleyne, Dino Fetscher, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Rachel Logan, Callum Woolford, George Bukhari, Zita Sattar, Kieran O’Brien, Pauline Fleming, Ellie Haddington,  Jodie Prenger, Dan Starkey, John McGrellis.

Years And Years. Television Review. full post

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

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

Cast: Lewis Bray, Garry Cooper, Emma Curtis, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Cynthia Erivo, Michael Hawkins, Charlotte Hope, Dean Nolan, Andrew Schofield, Alan Stocks, Tom Vary, Matt Whitchurch, Ozzie Yue.

One year on from the Everyman Theatre opening its bright, brand new interior to the people of Liverpool once more, throwing the wrapping of the impressive exterior and the doors being opened wide with a huge Merseyside smile, William Shakespeare returns to liven up the world and let the magic in the Everyman stage run over.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(556 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)