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Inside No.9: 3 x 3. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Tiajna Amayo, James Bailey, Kiran L. Dadlani, Gemma Page, Mary Keegan, Ronay Poole, Jim Rastall, James Tucker, Saskia Wakefield.

A piece of television that keeps you awake during the night, that has taken your reason out for a long walk and left it at the roadside attached to a pole and driven off at high speed, is to be congratulated for the sheer audacity in which it has been conceived and executed.

Gareth Heesom: The Way You Look At Me. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We all want that moment, be it for a brief period in our lives, or if we are fortunate, a sense of relief that lasts years, even a lifetime. There is no emotional satisfaction that comes close, no gut-wrenching honesty that survives and offers hope than when you can say to someone who loves you that “The Way You Look At Me” makes me want to be a better person.

The Old Way. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Nicholas Cage, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Noah Le Gros, Philip Aguirre, Clint Howard, Katelyn Bauer, Abraham Benrubi, Nick Searcy, Dean Armstrong, Everett Blunck, Brett Donowho, Shiloh Fernandez, Corby Griesenbeck, Boyd Kestner, Kerry Knuppe, Adam Lazarre-White, Beau Linnell, Jeff Medley, Joe Pepper, Craig Bramham, Eddie Spears, Skyler Stone.

Seeking revenge for a perceived wrong in childhood is a powerful emotion that runs arguably deeper than that which inflicts itself on that of an older man or woman, both states of the human experience run true, both leave their mark on the psyche, but that which leaves its scars in youth is harder to supress and conceal than that which occurs in middle age.

Doctor Who: Comrades-In-Arms. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jonathon Carley, Ajjaz Awad, Michael Amariah, Nicholas Briggs, Tiegan Byrne, Esmonde Cole, Sophie Khan Levy, Georgia Mackenzie, Deeivya Meir, Lucy Murrell.

The Time War arguably truly begins with a hybrid being fought over, a case study in the relative positions of two great empires, one dedicated by the actions of a mad man to destruction, racial purity, and genocide, the other the relic of a period in time when lords were looked upon as Gods, and when they acted in the same casual, nonchalant manner.

Miss Scarlet And The Duke. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin, Ansi Kabia, Evan McCabe, Felix Scott, Sophie Robertson, Brian Bovell, Cathy Belton, Simon Ludders, Sam Hoare, Tim Chipping, Tafline Steen, Greg Haiste, Robert Wilfort, Emma Gojkovic, Joseph May, Will Merrick, Tamsin Newlands, Liz Crowther, James Barriscale.

There are detective series that stand out for an entirely different reason than that which are forever hoping to attain.

Peter Cox: Seaglass. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We are glass shaped by time rather than the permanent waves of water that pound the debris of celebration into shape; and yet if we are fortunate, we end up the same, we are smoothed, levelled, and in rounded into shape of that which can best serve humanity rather than being the image of the rutted an craggy, the sharp end which cuts and slices into the flesh of others as we walk over them, as we leave an imprint of desperation on the shores of time.

Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton: Death Wish Blues. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Those Death Wish Blues will get you in the end, but until that time when the clocks reach their appointed hour you have the chance, the sublime opportunity to delve into two of the modern greats as they combine their incredible talent in an album that beats down the door of frustrating and riddled inelegance that has come to define an era dominated somewhat by the bland and crafted lyrical dullness.

Toyah: Live At Drury Lane. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

In one of the great mysteries of life, the fans of one of Birmingham’s finest musical ambassadors, the scintillating and unique Toyah Willcox, have always been left wondering why one of the most memorable performances of her early career was never given the aural treatment it deserved. Why it seemed to appear on every other format except the one it mattered on, the vinyl love it required to truly capture an icon at the height of her powers and majestic best.

Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band: Rise Again. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never allow yourself to stay down for too long, for the view is arguably addictive and the memories that accompany it are full of warmth and dangerously comforting.

Rise Again, step into the zone you are only vaguely familiar with, rise once more and find the place where industry meets imagination, and allow the feelings of passion for the new run its course and where it leads to discovery.

Inside No.9 : Love Is A Stranger. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Claire Rushbrook, Frances Barber, Matthew Horne, Asim Chaudhry.

The insular and the perpetually lonely, the shy and the sexually sly, have never had it so good when it comes to the advent of online dating. As near to anonymity as it is possible to go, the filters, the regulations, the privacy, all is in favour of finding the one, the perfect match which little engagement and effort; for nobody expects to find love online, no one imagines unearthing the one to die for in such a short space of time.