Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Time takes Time, only when the moment is right does the Muse look at their watch, smile beguilingly at the sculptor of dreams and precision, and make good on the promise to aid in the delivery of what is seen as art, what is the final expression of doubt and the beginning of an eternal voice occupying its time in history.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You can’t escape Christmas, it is as inevitable as a political gesture, it is as demanding as a court summons, and for some the meaning has become blurred, lost, sacrificed to the ring of the till and the steady heartbeat beep of the transaction.
Perhaps such things were always there in the background, and so by contrast we have made the most of them, we have allowed the need to be replaced by want, that we are showing love through the showering of money, and not in the belief of the joy of artistic pursuit and the natural state of sharing a common endeavour of the sparkle, the glistening interaction afforded the time of year.
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Life is a risk. That is the whole point, we cannot sit safely on a high chair being force fed the bland and beige through a sterile tube, occasionally deliberating a thought that might be considered controversial if we pursue it to its logical end, and then dismissing it if it should cause more than a ripple of offence. The trouble is that we all want to be liked, and we all want to live in a world that is friendly; a world where the dull, the routine, and the boring, are greeted as though they are the ministers and saints that hold court in the land of the righteous and the new moral guardians.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Being taken to The Parade is one of life’s absolute pleasures, you may only watch it take place, be the bystander in a crowd of thousands marvelling at the colour and sound as it fills the air and makes the senses run wild with excitement, but you will remember the procession forever, you will recall how small you felt in the face of the animated faces, how you held on to someone’s hand so that you wouldn’t get lost, you wouldn’t become part of the throng and the push of the convoy of exuberance and celebration.
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Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Jack Whitehall, Edgar Ramirez, Jesse Plemons, Paul Giamatti, Veronica Falcón, Dani Rovira, Quim Gutiérrez, Dan Dargan Carter, Andy Nyman, Raphael Alejandro, Simone Lockhart, Pedro Lopez.
The adventurous romp, the quest for something more than we can conceive in the everyday avenue of life, has always been one to draw cinema crowds in to the darkened room, but it remains, it a post-Covid world, something that the producers of such films might have to look at with a finer eye if they are to keep the thrill of the chase paramount and not relegated to that of a mere show, of whimsy without the necessary spectacle.
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Cast: Rhianne Barreto, Gambia Cole, Christopher Walken, Eleanor Tomlinson, Darren Boyd, Clare Perkins, Charles Babalola, Stephen Merchant, Isla Gie, Jessica Gunning, Grace Calder, James Nelson-Joyce, Guillermo Bedward, Aiyana Goodfellow, Ian McElhinney, Gyuri Sarossy, Dolly Wells, Marcus Fraser, Tom Hanson, Kojo Kamara, Sam Troughton, Inez Solomon, Evelyn Temple, Claes Bang, Hannah Brownlie, Josh Alexander, Leigh Williams, Michael Cochrane, Richard E. Grant.
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Cast: Simu Liu, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Awkwafina, Ben Kingsley, Meng’er Zhang, Fala Chen, Michelle Yeoh, Wah Yeun, Florian Munteanu, Andy Le, Paul W. He, Jayden Zhang, Elodie Fong, Arnold Sun, Stephanie Hsu, Tsai Chin, Jodi Long, Dallas Liu, Ronny Chieng, Stella Ye, Fernando Chien, Michael-Anthony Taylor, Zach Cherry, Raymond Ma, Benedict Wong, Jade Xu, Shelley Xu, Alistair Bates, Dee Bradley Baker, Brie Larson, Tim Roth, Mark Ruffalo.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Darwin received a fair amount of disgruntlement for his startling discoveries and observations when he undertook his voyage upon H.M.S. Beagle and pondered the meaning of life across time and found that survival depended on being the most adaptable.
Even long after his death he is misquoted, sometimes by the oppressor and the bully, often by the religiously inclined; if only he had written and presented a paper titled Survival Of The Friendliest, then perhaps much of the toxic humanity we have collectively endured since the day the great man first noticed the differences in the finches as they flew in circles around The Galapagos Islands, might well have been avoided.
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Cast: Ben Schnetzer, Ashley Romans, Olivia Thirlby, Diane Lane, Elliot Fletcher, Amber Tamblyn, Juliana Canfield, Diana Bang, Missi Pyle, Jess Salgueiro, Yanna McIntosh, Jennifer Wigmore, Paul Gross, Kristen Gutoskie.
Nature abhors a vacuum, remove a species, destroy a civilisation from existence, and what you are left with is a power struggle, a false manipulation of authority and dominance that requires feeding, and can turn on what remains on itself; the sense of the diminishing resonance that comes with extinction.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Ed Brayshaw is as individual as they come, the sense of the distinct and the specific framing the abundance of ideas and musical outpourings is seemingly personal to him, and despite the immensity of his contribution to others which grace the same playing field, the personality of being is one of character, of a persona who knows exactly the role he is performing and the encompassing truth to which the song never strays.
Following on from the superb Fire Without Water, Ed Brayshaw returns with that deep courage filled persona and musical riches in an album of muscle, command, and imperative belief.