Yearly Archives: 2014

Dumb And Dumber To. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10

Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle, Laurie Holden, Rachel Melvin, Steve Tom, Don Lake, Patricia French, Kathleen Turner, Gregory Fears, Bill Murray, Paul Blackthorne, Brady Bluhm, Lindsay Ayliffe, Eddie Shin, Tembi Locke, Atkins Estimond, Tommy Snider, Michael Yama, Nancy Yee, Grant James, Taylor St. Clair.

Some sequels are so well worth waiting for that the time elapsed between films only adds to the excitement of what will unfold as you finally take your seat. Like the Back to the Future trilogy, these films only give the audience that extra tingle as they see characters they have loved come back and take their lives on yet another tantalising journey.

Dumb And Dumber To. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Big Eyes, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, Terrance Stamp, Jon Polito, James Saito, Guido Furlani, Madeleine Arthur, Delaney Raye.

True life is a far stranger ideal than fiction could ever hope to emulate and perhaps one of the most complex of lives and relationships of the 20th Century was between the supremely talented Margaret Keane and her plagiarist, obscenely greedy and mentally abusive ex-husband, Walter Keane.

Big Eyes, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(579 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Wilko Johnson/Roger Daltrey, Going Back Home. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

They are rightly lauded as two of the finest of their generation. Roger Daltrey and Wilko Johnson are not just iconic, they are recognised as culturally eminent and at times, depending on what newspaper/magazine or ill-informed comments you decide to listen to, as equally famous and infamous as two ambassadors of British music can be.

Wilko Johnson/Roger Daltrey, Going Back Home. Album Review. full post

(646 words, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)

Well, likewise.

Finger hook pointing you
homo and boko and that
trees de-bought and we

well, I’m disappointed too
I rather not see you more
so don’t appear in my light

house, eyes to the side
how did you get on my crag
the seas surely should

don’t stay long on here
on the berg my resolve
with the must of the same.

Andreas Dahl

Permanent link to this post (65 words, estimated 16 secs reading time)

Switch Galaxy Ultra (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Switch Galaxy Ultra is a reflex based racing game available as a download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4 and PS Vita. Switch Galaxy Ultra originated as an iOS game called Switch in 2011 which was improved before releasing it as a PlayStation Mobile game under the name Switch Galaxy in 2013 ahead of the most enhanced and refined version of Switch in the form of Switch Galaxy Ultra on PS4 and PS Vita. Atomicom has PlayStation history running through its veins as their managing director is Gary Nichols who began his career in the videogame industry at the legendary Psygnosis who developed such amazing PS1 classics such as Colony Wars, Destruction Derby and WipEout. The Liverpool based indie developer Atomicom is active in their charitable work as the game has downloadable content called the Charity Pack which supports Caudwell Children with the full proceeds of that particular pack being donated to support poor, sick and disabled children which is certainly a nice way of giving back to the community and those less fortunate.

Switch Galaxy Ultra (PS4), Game Review. full post

(2740 words, estimated 10:58 mins reading time)

Nth Ascension, Ascension Of Kings. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

British Progressive Rock has been in such a rude state of health of late that it hardly seems a surprise when another group of musicians go down the long and ethereal note filled road. The genre has not reached the awful state of affairs that saw it nearly die a bloated thousand deaths in the 1970s, thankfully there is more than enough room in the 21st Century for well-worked, encouraging words of wisdom from the world of Prog.

Nth Ascension, Ascension Of Kings. Album Review. full post

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

Various Artists, The Art Of McCartney. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is no doubting that Sir Paul McCartney is one of Liverpool’s and indeed the U.K.’s favourite sons. The songs he co-wrote with John Lennon has rightly passed down generation after generation of music lovers to the point where surely at any point in time around the world a song he wrote, whether with the Beatles or his lengthy solo career, a song he lovingly crafted and put together, is being played on a radio station, in a Juke Box or on a record or C.D. player with reverence.

Various Artists, The Art Of McCartney. Album Review. full post

(676 words, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

The BossHoss, God Loves Cowboys. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Sometimes all you want from an album is to have a big stupid smile of unrepentant joy plastered all over what is otherwise could be a thoughtful and sensible face.

Music is not just there to make you think, reflect and contemplate the meaning behind the songs, sometimes it is more than enough to just really understand that what we are here for ultimately is too have a bit of fun and entertain ourselves without ever hurting anyone or anything else. For The BossHoss and their latest album, God Loves Cowboys, this is Country Rock with an outrageous smile and the knowing nod to an era when a lyric could raise a grin without going down the endless road of over sexualisation or resorting to outdated stereotyping.

The BossHoss, God Loves Cowboys. Album Review. full post

(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Sky Valley Mistress, Smoke Fairy. Extended Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

There is the sound of the low down and dirty, the irresponsibility of youth that we all secretly adore as they go out with guns blazing and an attitude in which once past a certain age can wither and die like a leaf under-nourished by the autumn sun.

Sky Valley Mistress, Smoke Fairy. Extended Single Review. full post

(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Last Christmas. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Nick Frost, Samuel Anderson, Dan Starkey, Nathan McMullen, Faye Marsay, Michael Troughton, Maureen Beattie, Natalie Gumede.

Ever since Doctor Who was bought back with a blaze of undeniable glory in 2005, the Christmas special has been a much look-forward to event, on the whole it has delivered, sometimes, thankfully not often, it has been a major let down, like finding out there are no roast potatoes on offer at your in-laws house but they spent all year preparing a room full of stinking and putrid sprouts.

Doctor Who: Last Christmas. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(735 words, estimated 2:56 mins reading time)