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Secret Invasion. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Emilia Clarke, Don Cheadle, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Killian Scott, Ben Mendelsohn, Olivia Coleman, Charlayne Woodward, Samuel Adewunmi, Katie Finneran, Irmena Chichikova, Cobie Smulders, Dermot Mulroney, Michael Epp, Anna Madeley, Mark Bazeley, Mark Lewis, Christopher McDonald, Martin Freeman, Nisha Aaliya, Uriel Emil, Tony Curran.

There was a time when artists, actors of all persuasions and abilities, were being dragged to the Senate to give evidence, and to name those to whom they ‘suspected’ of what was euphemistically called ‘Anti-American Activities’, essentially of harbouring the supposed ill-will against the United States of America in the fight against America.

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

Yellowjackets: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Sophie Néilsse, Nicole Maines, Elijah Wood, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Alexa Barajas, Luciano Leroux, Mya Lowe, Ella Purnell, Sarah Desjardins, Jane Widdop, Alex Wyndham, Rukiya Bernard, Aiden Stoxx, Simone Kessell, Lauren Ambrose, Nia Sondaya, Rekha Sharma, Nuha Jes Izman, John Reynolds, Jeff Holman.

Television series come and go with alarming ferocity, and to be caught in its glare for more than one series is to admit in modern terms that there is a seismic appreciation for the tale being played out for the benefit of the viewer.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: James Robert McCrimmon. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Michael Troughton, Frazer Hines, Daisy Ashford, Barnaby Edwards, Nigel Havers, Mickey Knighton, Pepter Lunkuse, Glen McCready, Alec Newman, Emma Noakes, Gary Turner, Ony Uhiara.

James Robert McCrimmon is a name that brings arguably the vast majority of Doctor Who fans happy memories and fondness for the entire Patrick Troughton era. What though is in that name, and despite only returning once on screen since the character returned to his right place in history, that marks him out as consistently being voted among the finest of companions that the Time traveller ever had by their side.

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(545 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

The Death Of Molly Miller. Radio Play Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shireen Farkhoy, George Edwards.

The rise of the social influencer is perhaps one that was only to be expected in a world where the narrative has altered from one of substance to one where you only have to be seen as being presentable, to wear and say the right things and be an image of those who, for whatever reason believe that you are the embodiment of success, to be noticed.

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(394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Oppenheimer. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes, Jason Clarke, Florence Pugh, Dane DeHaan, Kurt Koehler, Tony Goldwyn, John Gowans, Macon Blair, James D’Arcy, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Groener, Gregory Jbara, Ted King, Tim DeKay, Steven Houska, Tom Conti, David Krumholtz, Matthais Schweighöfer, Josh Hartnett, Alex Wolff, Josh Zuckerman, Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Hap Lawrence, Matthew Modine, Louise Lombard, Matt Damon, Jack Quaid, David Dastmaichian.

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(629 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Part One). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Frederick Schmidt, Mariela Garriga, Cary Elwes, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma.

You don’t escape from the rage of a volcano by standing still, you cannot avoid the avalanche by staring deep into the bleak white void as it hurtles towards you; and you don’t get to ignore the latest offering from the Mission Impossible franchise by declaring that it doesn’t appeal as an action film just because it is fronted by Tom Cruise.

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

Undercover-Close To Home. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ntombizodwa Ndlovu, Matthew McNulty, Bebe Massey, Taraq Al-Jeddal, Christine Bottomley, Esh Alladi, Emma Cunniffe, Kymberley Cochrane, Lula Marsh, Jessica Bellamy.

The rise in popularity in the true crime podcast is extraordinary and revealing.

Such revelations suggest much about the society we live in, and once where the murder mystery drama on television was seen as the preserve of the armchair detective pitting their wits against a writer who understands the genre as if they themselves were culpable of the crime committed, now the listener is rapt with attention as they look for the clues that might save their own life if they were plunged into a situation where their life might be in danger.

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(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Of A Night. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Neil Caple, Sue Jenkins, Izzy Campbell, Jason Done, Emily Pithon, Paul Duckworth.

Our personal problems take precedence over that which we understand are important to other people, it is who we are as a species. During panic, in the most extreme moments of what our minds can cope with as desperation and hopelessness threaten to overwhelm us, our struggles will be seen as more important than that suffered by a neighbour, a friend, or even a nation.

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

Shard. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Damien Molony, Finbar Lynch, Rebecca O’Mara, Trevor Kaneswaren, Kitty O’ Sullivan, Will Kirk.

Our environment shapes us but are we willing to listen to demands that the Earth below our feet asks of us in return for the bounty it supplies. If we look upon the last couple of hundred years of abuse we have savagely wrecked upon the soil, the heavy metals we have allowed to poison our lands, the sheer scale of strain we have placed on that which feeds us, then its no wonder that it could be argued, that the earth has rejected us, and no amount of pleading or sacrifice made in arrears will satisfy or placate that which has been abused.

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(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Gareth Heesom: There’s A Place. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Everyone that you encounter will arguably agree that as a music fan, the festival event is a particular experience that fills the mind and soul with something special, that no matter where, There’s A Place that sticks in the mind that nothing can ever replace,; a line-up that through the day, past the heat of the afternoon and long into the night’s blistering almost religious like fervour as the music roars, as the music leaves a shrine to your love and existence on this spinning ball.

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(394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)