Tag Archives: Stephen King

Chapelwaite. Television Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Adrien Brody, Emily Hampshire, Jennifer Enns, Sirena Gulamgaus, Ian Ho, Hugh Thompson, Gord Rand, Genevieve DeGraves, Trina Corkum, Devante Senior, Allegra Fulton, Eric Peterson, Michael Hough, Jennie Raymond, Dean Armstrong, Dean Armstrong, Steven McCarthy, Christopher Heyerdahl, Gabrielle Rose, Julian Richings, Gina Thornhill, James MacLean, Jeremy Akerman, Briony Merritt, Joanne Boland, Glen Lefchak, Acadia Colan, Sebastian Labelle, Charlie Rhindress, David Rosetti, Lily Gao.

Stephen King, Let It Bleed. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Follow the trail, check you can still see the breadcrumbs that once lined your way on previous occasions you walked through the forest of words, and don’t forget your lamp which casts a thousand shadows, which brings you face to face with the nightmares and ogres of repression, those beings that take delight as they taunt you as sleep, as you live in your bleak desires and dreams; for If It Bleeds, then let the trail lead, let it escort you straight to the crossroads of Heaven and Hell.

Stephen King, The Institute. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

An author can obsess over the same story as many times as they wish, as long as they continue to change the narrative, the setting and the drama, it is after all within their power to set the tale anyway they wish if it means the reader is hooked on the detail; what must always alter is the flow, the discussion and the frank exchange of how the world responds.

It: Chapter 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgard, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransome, Andy Bean, Jaeden Martell, Wyatt Oleff, Jack Dylan Grazer, Finn Wolfhard, Sopia Lillis, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Teach Grant, Nicholas Hamilton, Javier Botet, Xavier Dolan, Taylor Frey, Molly Atkinson, Joan Gregson, Stephen Bogaert, Luke Roessler,  Stephen King, Peter Bogdanovich, Will Beinbrink, Jess Weixler, Martha Girvin, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Jackson Robert Scott, Jake Weary, Katie Lunman, Kelly Van der Burg, Jason Fuchs, Joe Bostick, Megan Charpentier, Juno Rinaldi, Neil Crone, Ry Prior, Owen Teague.

Stephen King, Elevation. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is surely fair to say that there will never be another writer like Stephen King, a master of his genre in such a way that rivals Dickens, Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie or Jane Austen in their chosen avenues of exploring the desire and darkness within the human experience, a fair assumption that despite many suggesting he has lost his touch, or perhaps just simply been part of the everyday for far too long. It is more than likely that his performance as a writer, the stories crafted, still thrill millions around the world, the power of his imagination continues to hit heights that perhaps install just a twinge of envy in some, and downright rude resentment in others.

Stephen King, The Outsider. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is perhaps one of our more realistic and understandably damaging fears, to lose our identity, to be accused of a crime that we know we didn’t commit but to have all the evidence, our D.N.A., witness statements and testimony from every conceivable source of police profiling and psychiatric testing, to have our identity wiped out, to have someone else wear your face, act like you, have your friends believe you have become evil, insane or just plain foolish, that is the basic premise of many nightmares and some great cinematic moments captured for eternity.

Stephen King, End Of Watch. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Kermit Hodges is in pain, emotionally, physically and spiritually, he is running out of time to really get to the bottom of his most dangerous investigation, what really went on in the mind of Brady Hartsfield when he became a mad and psychotic killer hell bent on destruction. It is a case that has had Stephen King fans perhaps slightly bemused by the turn round in genre direction in the last couple of years but one that culminates in a novel that could stem out of the writer’s classic period, one that delves into the heart of the confines of the mind and how such things as telekinesis and mental projection can just as horrifying, just as filled with nightmares as the appearance of werewolves, psychotic clowns and vampires.

Stephen King, Finders Keepers. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It somehow feels kind of dirty, somehow unclean that deep in the heart of the crime fiction world lays the name Stephen King, the undisputed master of 20th and early 21st Century Horror. Yet for all the dirt, for all the feelings that must be overcome as any rational book reader must do, his second novel in the life of Ex-Cop and now Private Detective, Kermit Hodges is one that takes the idea of obsession down a very different route that plagued the writer during the days when Misery was such an enormous literary hit.

Stephen King, Mr Mercedes. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

After so many years of writing in a particular style that even the appearance of a full stop suddenly placed before the reader’s eyes was enough to have them scurrying for the covers and checking nervously under the bed, to witness Stephen King, the ultimate in the name of Horror in the 20th Century, take on a straight forward suspense thriller is akin to see him offer a book aimed at children…Mr Mercedes is no My Pretty Pony though, then again it is also no Under The Dome either.

Under The Dome, Television Review. Channel 5.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Dean Norris, Natalie Martinez, Britt Robertson, Alexander Koch, Colin Ford, Mackenzie Lintz, Nicholas Strong, Aisha Hands, Jolene Purdy, John Elvis, Samantha Mathis, Leon Rippy, Natalie Zea, Jeff Fahey.

It takes supreme endeavour to take one of Stephen King’s novels or short stories and turn them into something worth either taking a couple of hours out of your day to go to the cinema and seeing someone else’s view of much loved characters or investing several months of your life to and watching a series from start to finish in the hope that what you see will ever match up to the very high expectation of immersing yourself in one of the many books.