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A Haunting In Venice. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Kelly Reilly, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Riccardo Scamarcio, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Amir El-Masry, Ferando Piloni, Lorenzo Acquaviva, David Menkin, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Rowen Robinson, Emma Laird, Vanessa Ifediora, Kyle Allen, Ali Khan, Esther Rae Tillotson, Winnie Soldi.

Agatha Christie is the queen of crime, but even those of literary royal blood must admit that there is a period of time in their career that just doesn’t align itself to any other; and the longer the reign, the more likely it is to be at the final curtain that the illumination starts to fade; literature aping real life as the spell can be, hopefully not broken, but perhaps witnessed for what it is; a last hurrah of a genius mind.

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(549 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Screw. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Nina Sosanya, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Laura Checkley, Faraz Ayub, Stephen Wright, Ron Donachie, Ben Tavassoli, Lee Ingleby, David Judge, Barnaby Kay, Nicholas Lumley, Chicho Tche, James Foster, Bill Blackwood, Mark Newsome, Nathan Vaughan Harris, Riley Carter Millington, Leo Gregory.

The representation of the British penal policy can be traced through almost every genre and system of delivery known to media as one of progression and brutal truth.

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(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Knock At The Cabin. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Grint, Abby Quinn, Kristen Cui, McKenna Kerrigan, Ian Merrill Peakes, Denise Nakano, Rose Luardo, Billy Vargus, Satomi Hofmann, Kevin Leung, Lee Avant, Odera Adimorah, Kat Murphy, Kittson O’Neill, Lya Yanne, M. Night Shyamalan, Clare Louise Frost, Hanna Gaffney, Monica Fleurette, Saria Chen.

M Night Shyamalan’s career has been one of extraordinary highs, and even when the film he is connected with has only found an average basis with the crowds, it seems to be one that still finds a way to resonate with the unnerving and the memory of what can leave the audience and watcher alike with a trepidation of the twist that comes in the final moment.

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(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Robin Trower: Joyful Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When titans combine, expect earthquakes and seismic activity that turns heads, allows the heart to swell, the mind to expand and feel the appreciation of different generations digging the cause of the art and which can take place as the gods approve as they dance and bless the mood under a Joyful Sky.

To bring together Robin Trower and Sari Schorr is a match suggested in the heavens and created with a sense of unrelenting beauty here on Earth, and the result is an album in which elevates the emotions of the Blues to a place where this unknown feels as though it was always going to be; the kismet, the fate, is a bliss of powers based in trust, commenced in belief, and delivered with resonating thrust

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(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Annika. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Nicola Walker, Jamie Sives, Katie Leung, Silvie Furneaux, Ukweli Roach, Katie Dickie, Paul McGann, Varada Sethu, Taylor Goodwin, Sven Henriksen, Rebecca Root.

The art of the aside in theatre is a tribute to the writer’s immense skill to break the fourth wall in such a way that the silence on stage is filled with a cacophony of stunned appreciation. It is not so much the secret being revealed or the information shared for the audience’s elucidation, but for the truth that dare not be spoken to those who share the scene; and when this ability is taken to its next logical step on television, it highlights the weight of the unvarnished conscious at play; unhindered by the crowded thoughts of others who will only derail the investigation of the self-analysis.

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(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Scream VI. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Courtey Cox, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Hayden Panettiere, Mason Gooding, Roger Jackson, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Champion, Josh Segarra, Liana Liberato, Devyn Nekoda, Skeet Ulrich, Tony Revolori, Samara Weaving.

Just when you think that the Scream franchise cannot go any bigger, cannot pull you in anymore, Scream VI comes along and blows your mind.

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(416 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Dom Martin: Buried In The Hail. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Hell is a good starting place for the righteous to start a revolution, but as the infernal pace freezes over and the snowball’s chance and the possibility of being Buried In The Hail proves the downfall of the devils and gods, so the main believers are afforded the time to state their case and show Hell the heaven that awaits.

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(367 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Fleetwood Mac: Rumours -Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are three generations of fans that never got to see Fleetwood Mac at their absolute undoubted pomp, at the moment where they had gold in their veins and the blood of destruction flowing through their hearts, and it is too that sense of mortifying time bound neglect that the feeling of never seeing the masters in their natural setting as the friction and love threatened to turn the band inside out, dawns upon the faithful.

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(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Tori Amos: Scarlet’s Walk. Vinyl Issue Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The American dream is sold upon a lie we have told ourselves, its victims are those who hold the illusion up, the dead, the slaves, the ones who emotionally could not cope with the fantasy, the president who sought change but paid with their life, the native, the ones before the European invader who now rule the roost from coast to coast and from the gulf to the borders of cold forests and a less intense lifestyle, having their stories cut short and mostly lost except through perseverance and the beauty of aural reassurance and passion.

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(534 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

The Rondays. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is always something there to remind the listener of the depth and quality of the music that comes out of Liverpool’s vast music empire.

It seems since time first registered the individuality of the region, the city by the Mersey, music has been the driving force of its culture, of its people, and despite the significance of the area, as with much of the country, losing various venues due to the social policies enacted by one political colour or another, what will always thrive is the beast within, the need for the expression to be shown and keenly felt.

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(350 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)