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The labours of Hercules are often painted as a Greek romance, of the depths someone will go to prove their worth, or to atone for some misgiving. However, if we are to compare modern endeavours with that of Greek legend, then surely Sissyphus and the unstoppable boulder would be more of a direct analogy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Bertie Carvel, Carlyss Peer, Michael Culkin, Sara Stewart, Michael Maloney, Silas Carson, Yaseen Aroussi, Daisy Waterhouse, Barbara Marten, David Pearse, Alistair Brammer, Michael Amariah, Charlotte McCurry, Alex Hope, David Bamber, Liz Crowther, Marsha Miller.
The trouble with the law is that it does not take into consideration the actions of those who implement it.
Justice not only comes with a price, and as the statue insists, is blind, but if wielded in the wrong hands can be a weapon more potent than that in which it is in place to discourage, to outlaw.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The demonstration of intent when it comes releasing your debut album is bound by a kind of artistic law that states it must show the confidence that is full of gravitas and punch, that if it fails to deliver a groove or the belief of scope and majesty required, then what you have created is not worth the life you have spent honing and perfecting your words, not setting the tone to which honours the pain and joy that your existence has endured so far.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Idris Elba, Leah Jeffries, Iyana Halley, Sharlto Copley, Liyabuya Gongo, Martin Munro, Daniel Hadebe, Thapelo Sebogodi, Chris Langa, Mduduzi Mavimbela, Chris Gxalaba, Kazi Khuboni, Tafara Nyatsanza, Ronald Mikwanazi, Naledi Mogadime, Thabo Rametsi.
A film that divides is prosperous indeed, and whilst Beast is not the greatest film of all time, what it lacks in agility and convincing CGI/acting, it more than makes up for in its environmental message. A film that produces empathy and disgust at the actions of a part of humanity driven by destruction, deserves more praise than it has received so far.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
At least once in a person’s life, the wish to hit the Re-Set button is one they cannot ignore. They may plod on for a time in the usual manner, appearing to the world with a smile and a look of contentment, but the human spirit that dwells within will only burn for so long before it requires re-adjusting to the understanding that it needs to start again, not completely, but at the point where in the heart they may feel they wandered off the path of promise and hope and into the wilderness of appeasement and allowing others to misuse their good intentions.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Amanda Abbington, Samantha Spiro, Ayda Kiiza, Moyo Akandé, Leon Herbert, Dermot O’ Leary,
We should be mindful of what we perceive to be irrational phobias; just because we find the notion of being fretful when a black cat crosses our path, that actors’ aversion to mentioning the lead name in Shakespeare’s Scottish play may bemuse us, or that Anatidaephobia is nothing to give a duck about, we must acknowledge that part of our own individuality and reason is immersed in the most simple of these anxieties, that something from the primordial soup attached itself to us and which has grown like a shadow as we have progressed through time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We give power to that which makes us understand what drives us and to which can give us nightmares as we live in a waking state of fear and breakdown. This duality of life is to be expected…how we deal with it is where each person’s distinctive command, their circle of friends and lived ones, combine to bring peace to the mind of those caught in the spiral of living half in and half out of their soul for a while as events threaten to overtake them.
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Keep your head down, don’t look into the eyes of the beast that is sizing you up, that is snaring so close by you can feel the remains of the last meal it ate hitting your nostrils as though you were breathing in the sickly smell of carnage and death….do whatever you can to avoid the beast, for if you dare look it in the eye, you know you are next.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: David Hayman, Udo Kier, Olivia Silhavy, Kineret Peled, Jaime Correa, Tomasz Sobczak, Danharry Colorado.
How would you react if you came face to face with your worst nightmare, with the face of pure evil; especially when you had been led to believe that the person on question was found dead, killed by their own hand many years before.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Ashley Thomas, Owen McDonnell, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Trystan Gravelle, Hayley Squires, Rudi Dharmalingham, Laurie Ogden, Matthew Needham, Tom Sweet, Matt Berry, Parth Thakerar, Chloe Lea, Jonathan Coy, Bronte Carmichael, Ben Moor, Emily Johnstone, James Foster, John Mackay, Eric Godon.
To wish or demand for the same outcome time and again shows that immovability and stagnation of the human spirit are sadly more common than we were led to believe, and whilst some change will often rub against the sentiment of the purist, to decry that which sparks revolution is to corrode and rust itself.