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The Portable Door. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Patrick Gibson, Christoph Waltz, Sam Neil, Miranda Otto, Damon Herriman, Jessica De Gouw, Mezi Atwood, Rachel House, Chris Pang, Sophie Wilde, Christophr Sommers, Tori Webb, Jason Wilder, Arka Das, Lillie Wallace, Savanna Crasto, Jasmine Barui, Diane Lin, Finn Treacy, Lin Yin, Chris Bridgewater, Stephen Walker.

In all fairness, it is only right that Tom Holt’s prestigious and abundant work should finally get the big screen treatment that his ideas and iconic books have long been asked for by the discerning and faithful readers of his comic creations.

The Portable Door. Film Review. full post

(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Thomas Charlie Pedersen: Employees Must Wash Their Hands. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Not all instructions are taken lightly, some are full of their own perverse excess, some revel in their perceived importance, and others are so full of drama that they almost border on hate speech, implying that if we don’t follow them blindly then we are guilty of many sins, of being out of the circle drawn, essentially in the dirt with our thoughts and ideas.

Thomas Charlie Pedersen: Employees Must Wash Their Hands. Album Review. full post

(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

The Room: Restless Fate. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Like riding a bike, once you have mastered an artform it never truly leaves you.

Time passes, sometimes too much for the artist to regain a semblance of balance between what they once produced and to what they wish to explore, to present, in the now; and yet there is the room to which sleep is denied with force, the place where a purpose never rests until it is examined, poured over, and delivered with as much affection and fortitude as once lit up every corner of the artistic apartment at hand.

The Room: Restless Fate. Album Review. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa: Tales Of Time. Album Review.

Joe Bonamassa Announces “Tales Of Time” Live Album Set | SonicAbuse

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When the iconic is caught between Time and a rock, the influences of stories and tales are sure to keep all enthralled as the clocks tick ever onward.

When the public talk of Joe Bonamassa, the father of 21st Century Blues is just as likely to be voiced and expressed as a musician of articulate iconography; it is inevitable, and it is in that direct impression that his albums have not only given the Blues its due recognition but impressed upon listener and artist alike of the validity of a genre that was in critical danger of fading from public view.

Joe Bonamassa: Tales Of Time. Album Review. full post

(452 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Keith Thompson: Timeless Vol 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We all have our own definition of timeless, that which lives during a period of abiding change undaunted by fashion, by the cruelty of every changing vogue, or by the temporary beauty moulded by the modern damnation of the influencer. To be timeless is to place above almost everything that which gives the most pleasure and accept that your life is a series of pulses caught at the right moment and which define your life’s work as well as your soul.

Keith Thompson: Timeless Vol 2. Album Review. full post

(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Ben Bostick: The Rascal Is Back. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In today’s world, being serious is not only seen as a virtue, but shows commitment to every cause that comes our way; we must be seen to appear stony faced, deflecting all that could be construed as silly, frivolous, demonstrative in the chambers of perpetual grimness, and never once find stuff, life, amusing anymore, in case we are seen to being on the side of humour heretics.

Ben Bostick: The Rascal Is Back. Album Review. full post

(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Lucy Kruger And The Lost Boys: Heaving. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the face of anguish and turmoil, we can often be found to rise ourselves up to the person we wish to be seen by others as. It may be a face, it could be a mask, but the upheaval will bring out the best in us, to be seen Heaving the rock as if we are preparing it for Sisyphus to roll up a hill with grunts and muscles strains, is a badge of honour…

Lucy Kruger And The Lost Boys: Heaving. Album Review. full post

(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola: Sølvstrøk. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In life too much emphasis is placed upon hitting gold, of opening a seam that is flawless and filled with riches beyond anyone’s comprehension, the damage wrought to the individual as they dream of the precious metal can become like a sickness, urging them onwards until the scarcity value is dominant and unfulfilling.

We all carry our own shade of value, and perhaps it is a finer seam we strike when we look to the precious nature inherent in the sturdier and cleaner premise of consistency to be found and admired in silver mining, the allure of the polished material giving a sheen of endurance to which gold cannot stand against time; that of the silverstroke, the Sølvstrøk, which just requires care in which to gleam.

Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola: Sølvstrøk. Album Review. full post

(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Passenger List. Audio Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kelly Marie Tran, Elyse Dinh, George Q Nyugen, Colin Morgan, Ben Daniels, Ian McQuown, Doyla Gavanski, Valarie Vennix, Tessa Auberjonis, Pej Vahdat, Lauren Shippen, Carl Prekopp, Richard Tanner, Kelsey Venter, Sean T. Krishnan, Adam O’Byrne, Julie Adamo, Nathan Osgood, Laurel Lefkow, Gabby Brooks, Kathleen Early, Richard Doyle, Adrian Latourelle, Kristian Bruun, Patti LuPone, Steve Basaula, Mark Henry Phillips, Philip Desmeules, Becci Gemmell, Eben Figueiredo, Fode Simbo, Nicole Stedwell, Nick Massoub, Ray McAnally, Rob Benedict, Mary Gordon Murray, Richard Doyle, Heather Craney, Anjili Mohindra, Briggon Snow, Alex Brown Marshall, Raad Rawi, Marie France Arcilla, Clare Corbett, Jennifer Armour, Barbara Barnes, Eric Meyers, Chrstopher Ragland, Cyril Nri, Danielle Lewis, Akie Kotabe, Carlyss Peer, Gianna Kiehl, Kerry Shale.

Passenger List. Audio Drama Series Review. full post

(693 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

The Black Phone. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeline McGraw, Jeremy Davies, E. Roger Mitchell, Troy Rudeseal, James Ransone, Miguel Cazarez Mora, Rebecca Clarke, J. Gaven Wilde, Spencer Fitzgerald, Jordan Isaiah White, Brady M. Ryan, Tristan Pravong, Jacob Moran, Brady Hepner, Banks Stikeleather, Kristina Arjona, Sheila O’Rear, Rocco Poveromo, Kellan Rhude, Nina Repeta.

There are some supernatural/ thriller/ horror films that just frame the genre so well, and yet don’t receive the wider appreciation that others of lesser quality seem to enjoy.

The Black Phone. Film Review. full post

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