Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Flying a kite in a thunderstorm is a reckless occupation, only scientists and foolhardy adventurers would see the lightning and relish the challenge…and yet to see the spark of brilliance as the flash explodes, as the possibility of fire framed by the reflection in the eye, that is the moment where holding The Paper Kites might just be the most thrilling occasion a person can behold.
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A true observer of the human condition and one who sees the meaning behind every building, who feels every ounce of historical sweat that was produced as cracks and fissures were framed and restored, and who understands that the town, every village, and that of the great and expanding metropolitan, is as much of the fabric of society as the person who lives and breathes within their tempered walls….these are the people who recognise the point in documenting it all to words and memory.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Charlene Mckenna, Barry Ward, Aiden McCann, Rhys Mannion, Katelyn Rose Downey, Jeanne Nicole Ni Áinle, Adam Fergus, Aoibheann McCann, Nathara Dayananda, Grace Collender, Cathy Belton, Benjamin Bergin, Robert Mitchell, Kevin Trainor, Orla Casey, Trevor Kaneswaran, Roisin Rankin, Ray Weafer, Sean Duggan, Joe Rooney, Oscar Nolan, Youssef Quinn, Tristan Heanue, Breffni Clack, Steve Gunn, Maeron Libomi, Niall Bishop, Bernadette Carty, Fergus Mulligan.
How far we go to erase our part in a moral and societal transgression is purely at the conscious of our very being. This is especially true when we commit murder to cover up a murder.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Ukweli Roach, Juliet Stephenson, Owen Teale, Annes Elwy, Sacha Dhawan, Iwan Rheon, Kezia Burrows, Ciarán Joyce, Gwïon Morris Jones, Anthony Webster, Sian Reese-Williams, Zadeiah Campbell-Davies, Emily Adara, Oscar Coleman, Amanda Drew, Luke Rhodri, Andy Eadie, Tim Treloar, Karl Johnson, Kai Owen, Mabil Jên Eustace, Simon Dwyer-Thomas.
There have been a multitude of tales brought to the television viewer’s attention which focus on the ferocity of being to be found within the psychopath, of the damaged, and those to whom society has itself bullied and tormented and then not understood why the dog that was kicked has turned and bitten back.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
All We Have Is Now…and that is the truth of it; for we can plan for the future as much as we are able, we can look ahead with degree of certainty that our plans will be realised, but the moment comes and goes with frightening regularity, and we are in the end undeniably slaves to the prospect of the tick and the tock of a potential lost.
If we grasp the moment with a force of momentum that leaves scars on the hand, then that now is forever framed and laid down in ways that leave a searing heat of pleasure across the conscious of the artist within.
I
never wanted
to stand alone on the
peek,
for me it was enough to be
in the crowd and see it from
base camp.
Ian D. Hall 2023
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Whilst Arthur Conan Doyle is rightly lauded by many as the godfather of the British detective, it can also be argued, quite intently, that because of the Victorian and Edwardian attitudes that prevailed during his writing career, his ability to write about women was poor at best, and at worst, damning. Of course, you write what you know, and that world in which Sherlock Holmes was born into, was one forced by the rampant progression of the notion of Empire and what it meant to be British, what it meant to be a man.
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Art inspires art.
History is replete with the historical and the past endeavours of an artist enthusing the soul of the student, of the long distant sculpture illustrating to the modern cartoonist just how to capture form and feeling, of the novel displaced in time being captured like lighting in between a leather cover performing miracles in the world of music long after the authors have passed their way into the next realm.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The strangeness of being a name on the lips of everyone to one who can pass relatively unnoticed through a large crowd is one that is an underrated and startling. It is a reassurance that we can all have a moment in the national limelight that is filled with compliment and congratulations, and then be comfortable in our niche that we thrive, without being exposed to overwhelming idolatry.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Striving for perfection is to be lauded, but it is time to admit that it is a curse on the artistic endeavour, it puts the apprentice and the star eyed pupil off as they are not only competing against themselves, but the judgement of the one to whom stands beside them with the large stick of authority relishing the opportunity to install a discipline that becomes a spectre at the feast of enjoyment.