To the outsider, to those who either come into Liverpool once every year for a stag or hen night or the chance to lose heavily at Aintree, Liverpool may well seem a city of contrasts, a place in which many have pre-conceived ideas of how its people act, play, work and enjoy life. However to be an outsider who embraces the city and the surrounding areas with every fibre of being, that’s when the city really shows its vibrancy and complete uniqueness.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Charlotte Pollard, The Lamentation Cipher. Series One. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: India Fisher, Michael Maloney, James Joyce, Nicholas Briggs.
The feeling of rarity is quite uncommon when it comes to listening to the return of Charlotte Pollard.
Arguably the finest of all the audio companions introduced since Big Finish took the job on of bringing The Doctor back into the main stream consciousness of the British public, and before the B.B.C. finally saw sense in the folly of having let one of their most loved programmes go to waste, Charlotte Pollard, Charley to her friends, has travelled with two Doctors, been in an abundance of adventures with both and has captured the ideal of what it means to be a companion in the Tardis. To question, to investigate and not get become a quivering wreck in the face of adversity or under the sometimes withering gaze of The Doctor.
Run Like Hell! (PS Vita), Game Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 9 out of 10
Run Like Hell! is an action platform variant of the endless runner genre; available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita. The game is from the same developer that brought the excellent Draw Slasher to the PlayStation Vita in April 2013.
A Widow’s Last Day.
Hush! Widow, you are dying now!
All you have achieved and discarded, will in Time
turn to dust that collects around the annals of long
forgotten history books, their lessons not heeded.
You are slipping away, the testament of the lengthy chains
that bind you to Humanity’s thought, even those that loved you
with a passion and romance filled spirit for the beige
you sometimes offered between the highs and lows
of what could be seen as a worryingly megalomaniac disposition.
However, like Lear, your time is ending soon
The Tower
I saw a tower
It laughed me into submission
But that’s okay
I found I could still smile
I was in a tower
It talked me into submission
But that’s okay
I found I could still smile
I was locked in a tower
I questioned my submission
It was too late
They were rounding up my friends and family
I was brought from the tower
I smiled at the block
My legs wanted to give way
All I am is my love
Exodus: Gods And Kings, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, Maria Valverde, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver, Hiam Abbass, Isaac Andrews, Ewen Bremner, Indira Varma, Golshifteh Farahani, Ghassan Massoud, Tara Fitzgerald, Dar Salim, Andrew Tarbet, Ken Bones, Hal Hewetson.
For the more sceptical age we find ourselves in, where the world has become more polarised in its disbelief’s as it has in its religious fervour, there is surely room for more interpretation of a contentious event than ever before.
Krave, Uncivilised, Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It is perhaps Humanity’s greatest failing that we see something or a race of people that we don’t understand and believe ourselves to better cultured and educated than they ever could be or arguably have the right to be. It is a systematic failing, a supreme moment of arrogance that belittles us all. It makes us feel superior when we don’t have the right, an uncivilised civility that shows its self arguably more in the world of art than any other.
The Boy In The Dress, Television Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast Billy Kennedy, Temi Orelaja, Jennifer Saunders, James Buckley, Tim McInnerny, Felicity Montagu, Steve Speirs, Meera Syal, David Walliams, Aaron Chawla, Rosheen Hinze, Oliver Barry-Brook, Emma Cooke, Harish Patel, Sonny Ashbourne Serkis, Kate Moss, Gary Lineker, Alex Thomas.
The Boy in the Dress is one of those heart-touching moments of British television that no doubt will split the vast majority of Christmas viewers. It will inevitably also have those that purposefully avoided it have mini rages into their early morning cups of tea and spitting in annoyance at the thought of such a diverse subject being given air time.
Doctor Who: Dark Eyes 3. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Paul McGann, Alex MacQueen, Ruth Bradley, Nicola Walker, Sean Carlsen, David Sibley, Georgie Fuller, Geoffrey Breton, Natalie Burt, Sacha Dhawan, Sarah Mowat, Laura Riseborough, John Banks, Jonathan Forbes, Beth Chalmers, Georgia Moffett.
The Doctor and The Master, a tale of perpetual war and distrust between two titans of Gallifrey and all those caught between them. Whether it is Jo Grant, The Cybermen, Tegan Jovanka’s aunt, the citizens of Logopolis or even Adric, nobody and no one benefits in this private war and certainly not the woman who has become the latest buffer between the former friends, Molly O’ Sullivan.
The Tower
I saw a tower
It laughed me into submission
But that’s okay
I found I could still smile
I was in a tower
It talked me into submission
But that’s okay
I found I could still smile
I was locked in a tower
I questioned my submission
It was too late
They were rounding up my friends and family
I was brought from the tower
I smiled at the block
My legs wanted to give way
All I am is my love