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Deacon Blue: You Can Have It All – The Complete Albums Collection. Box Set Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

If there is a prize for the most self-evident use of a lyric in relation to naming a complete album collections, then Deacon Blue must have surely known they would be absolutely victorious when the discussion arose of how to catch the attention of the fan and persuade them to set aside their money from wages day as they unveiled the title of the ginormous box set; You Can Have It All – The Complete Albums Collection

Belinda Carlisle: Decades. Box Set Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The song remains the same, it is how the album is packaged that will draw the audiophile and the collector in, and if you manage to snag in the net those who had long thought about investing in their soul, albums from the said artist, then the Decades in which they have plied their trade have not only been worth it, but pursued with an acclaim of history on its side.

Departure: Series Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Archie Panjabi, Kris Holden-Reid, Mark Rendall, Karen LeBlanc, Dion Johnstone, Patrick Sabongul, Savoa Spracklin, Brit MacRae, Cihig Ma, Thomas Craig, Tyler Elliot Burke, Eric McCormack, Pamela Estrada, Mikaela Dyke, Paula Boudreau, Kominna Parkinson-Jones, Jennnnifer Podemski, Jaedenn Noel, Shailyn Pierre-Dixon, Wesley French, Jake Weber, Lauren Lee Smith, Romaine Waite, Susann Coyne, Lee Clarke, Cindy Sampson, Sarah Swire, Steve O’Connell.

The capacity for human tragedy knows no boundaries when it comes to incompetence and greed from reckless individuals and corporations.

Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 1. Big Finish Audio Drama Box Set Review.

Liverpool Soun and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Hattie Moran, Nicola Walker, Mark Bonnar, Ewan Bailey, John Banks, Robert Bathurst, Gunnar Cauthery, Matthew Cottle, Esther Hall, Caroline Langrishi, Sylvester McCoy, Lizzie Mounter, Harry Myers, Ramon Tikaram, John Voce, Bethan Walker, John Woodvine, David Yelland.

Wifelike. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Elena Kampouris, Doran Bell, Agam Darshi, Alix Villaret, Fletcher Donovan, Sara Sampaio, Rachelle Goulding, Caitlin Stryker, C.J. Perry Barnyashev, Claire Friesen, Stephen Lobo, Sean Yves Lessard, Sari Mercer, Chezca Vega, Bradley Stryker, Stuart James, Steve Weller, Miranda Edwards.

A.I. is the technology to which will arguably divide people’s opinions more than almost anything in the very near future; and whilst the full implication is not yet realised on how we accommodate the rise of the machine in daily life, whether it will aid us or hinder, be a positive or herald the destruction of humanity as we perceive it, can no longer be swept aside as a discussion.

Midsomer Murders: The Witches Of Angel’s Rise. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Clive Mantle, Caroline Lee-Johnson, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Sarah Paul, Ian Bartholomew, Colin Salmon, Janie Duvitski, Cian Barry, Tristan Sturrock, Richard David-Caine, Jordan Ford Silver, Bettrys Jones, Jessica Whitehurst, Erin Mullen, Holly Willoughby.

In every English village there surely must be at least one person to whom the belief of the dark arts marks them out as strange within the tightly wrapped community. The interest shown at a young age in magic, in spells, the lure of the Tarot cards and all that it entails, can leave the collective gossiping, pointing the finger at the outsider, and marking them out as one to avoid.

Vinny Peculiar: How I Learned To Love The Freaks. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To appreciate the heroes of the counter culture movement is to know your own mind, it is too rail, no matter how many years after the end of the flower power bearers, the orators of good hope, and those who paved the way for us all to cut swathes through the squares and the rules of pre-war dogma, and argue that the world has become bland, dull, it has immersed itself in the safety of the beige, and it shows no sign of wanting to heave itself out of the mire of the deadly and the dreary tedium.

The Broadsword and The Beast. 40th Anniversary Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Rating * * * * *

Critical reception in the eyes of all-knowing journalist can be tempered by understanding that they only write what they perceive to be true, or what they have been ordered to by those with a common purpose.

There was a period of time when music magazines, writers, had a ulterior motive, at some point they would knock a band so severely and claim that the record they were listening to was to be dismissed, to be wary off, and that the group in question was obviously no longer a relevance. Not every music journalist followed the line, but it is telling when you look back at old reviews that some albums which are rightly now considered as classics, have suffered from a way of thinking that had nothing to do with appreciation, and more about ego.

Becoming Elizabeth. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alice von Rittennberg, John Heffernan, Oliver Zetterström, Jamie Parker, Romola Garai, Leo Bill, Ekow Quartey, Tom Cullen, Jacob Avery, Jamie Blackley, Alexandra Gilbreath, Bella Ramsey, Alex Macqueen, Jessica Raine, Ryan Nolan, Olivier Huband, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Stanley Townsend, Ben Moor, Robert Whitelock, Alfie Todd, Oliver Bennett, Lucy Speed.

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.