Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Bertie Carvel, Carlyss Peer, Richard Harrington, Sam Hoare, Margaret Clunie, Deborah Findlay, Dominic Rowan, David Hargreaves, Lara Cohen, Ezra Carlisle, Chris Robinson, Stuart Graham, Perry Millward, Alyth Ross, Carolina Main, Debbie Chazen, Francis Mezza, Conor Hinds, Shanaya Rafaat.
What passes for love can bring a person to their knees, and what love can destroy, so its darker emotional sibling, jealousy, can murder.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Sian Brooke, Martin McCann, Richard Dormer, John Lynch, Joanne Crawford, Jonathan Harden, Katherine Devlin, Nathan Braniff, Dane Whyte O’Hara, Hannah McClean, Andi Osho, Gerard Jordan, Valene Kane, Michael Shea, Nabil Elouahabi, Matt Carver, Matthew Forsythe, Abigail McGibbon, Clare Gray, Stefan Boehm, Isaac Heslip, Art Campion, Desmond Eastwood, Andrea Irvine, Paddy Jenkins, Frankie McCafferty, Orla Graham, Aoibheann McCann, Charlie Maher, Neil Keery, Shane McCaffrey, Antoinette Morelli, Maria Quinn, Packy Lee, Declan Lawn, Brian Milligan, Helena Bereen, Louise Parker, Bernadette Brown, Dearbhalle McKinny, Mary Moulds, Michael Patrick.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are those who will damn a person for understanding melancholy, accusing them of pandering to the inevitability of the morose and the miserable as though it is a choice and not the sight of an empathetic soul who recognises that to relish the beauty of a spring day you have to live through, the expression of a Hard Frost with the same objective appreciation and consideration.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Anita Dobson, Phil Daniels.
It’s too late to ask your parents to reveal their secrets when they have left this mortal coil, but what lengths would you go to ask them for the truth when they are in Heaven or Hell, or the Limbo in between.
In typical resounding style, Inside No.9’s Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith take the opportunity to delve into the realm of the nightmare and the visionary in the latest episode of the successfully long running series, wonderfully titled, Mother’s Ruin.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
“There are two sides to this story…”
As with any production of art that claims to have the structure of what defines the artist’s best work, it is always one that is up for debate, one that can divide the public to the point where it damages the intention beyond repair.
To the story of Kris Drever, nothing of the kind should ever cross the thoughts of those who have taken the Scottish musician to their hearts, and the fan to come who will undoubtedly utilise the album as a steppingstone to discovery, to what can only be reverentially understood as unearthing beauty.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The world is a very different place to yesterday, so imagine how dissimilar it must feel to February 2004 on the eve of The Stranglers making a dramatic statement as they returned after six years away from the studio with the incredibly direct and musically thrilling Norfolk Coast.
If yesterday was different, then imagine how tomorrow must look, and that is the point of being able to finally hear the band as they release the album on vinyl for the first time; for whilst times change and alter in out perception, a moment of elegance and class is timeless.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Some will never know the sheer thrill of walking through a venue’s door and being greeted by a fanfare of noise emanating from an excited audience already in the firm grip of the reveal that is about to take place on stage.
Some will feel the tension and the love but never truly understand the belief that entangles the heart and the soul as they watch with closed senses the spectacle and drive…and then there are those who will feel the weakness in their knees, the strength in their very being, and the beauty of the experience, close up and personal, the heady aroma of silk music and playful performance which is akin to a night of heavy drama in a theatre, and be forever captured by love.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Music should find a way to always surprise you, even if it by the margin of a raised eyebrow rather than the full overblown slap of connectivity that you hope for.
There is a lot to take in when confronted by the appearance of Jethro Tull’s latest album, RökFlöte, so much to unpack that whilst the idea should come as no surprise, the delivery is one of quietly drawn respect and admiration for pulling off the spectacle. Not only is it the shortest turn around in between albums, coming hot on the heels of 2022’s The Zealot Gene, for 40 years, its central device is that which keenly involves itself in ways that hark back to the band’s early concept albums to which they made, in their own surprised way, a huge impression on the Progressive genre.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
We are taught, quite rightly, as a child to not judge a book by its cover, but as we get older, more in tune to the universe, we cannot help in the field of art to gaze upon an album, a novel, a painting, and define it to our aesthetic enjoyment and be more likely to purchase the offering by the creative because of the way the cover stands out.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott, Steven Yeun, Wrenn Schmidt, Keith David, Devon Graye, Terry Notary, Barbie Ferreira, Donna Mills, Oz Perkins, Eddie Jemison, Jacob Kim, Sophia Coto, Jennifer Lafleur, Andrew Patrick Ralston, Lincoln Lambert, Pierce Kang, Roman Gross, Alex-Hyde White, Hetty Chang, Liza Treyger, Ryan W. Garcia, Courtney Elizabeth.
There may be many inspirations behind Jordan Peele’s latest cinematic offering, a whole wardrobe stuffed full of motivations and muse like stimuli, but in the end, it has to be observed what a sizeable contribution to the world of mystery and suspense the talented director has brought to the screens in the pulsating Nope.