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The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Chris Pratt, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Kevin Bacon, Sean Gunn, Karen Gillan, Michael Rooker, Bradley Cooper, Vin Disel, Maria Bakalova, Rhett Miller, Murray Hammond, Ken Bethea, Philip Peeples, Kyra Sedgwick, Si Chen, Don McLeod, Thomas McNamara, Daniel Bernhardt, Michelle Gunn, Flula Birg, Matthew Withers, Rusty Schwimmer, Helene D’ Auria, Tinashe Kajese, Barry Curtis, Rachel Luttrell, Giovannie Cruz, Stephen Blackehart, Sarah Alami, Terence Rosemore, Luke Klein.

The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special. Television Review. full post

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

Disenchanted. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Maya Rudolph, Gabriella Baldacchino, Rachel Duff, James Marsden, Idina Menzel, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jayma Mays, Kolton Stewart, Oscar Nuñez, Alan Tudyk, Griffin Newman, Brooke Josephson, Mila Jackson, Lara Jackson, Eimear Morrissey.

It is the way of the modern world; a studio realises they have a cinematic hit on their hands and quickly takes steps to rush out a sequel. A couple of quick years pass, and the movie is almost seamless, the succession soon passed down, and before you know it you have a franchise on your hands. It is understandable, and whilst commercial capitalism is unhealthy, it does allow the viewer to keep the story in their minds, to keep it fresh, and not allow the tale on screen to become stagnant.

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(576 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Andor. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O’ Reilly, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Jacob James Beswick, Adria Arjona, Faye Marsey, Andy Sirkis, Varada Sethu, Elizabeth Dulau, Anton Lesser, Michael Jenn, Dave Chapman, Robert Emms, Kathryn Hunter, Joplin Sibtain, Bronte Carmichael, Alastair Mackenzie, Alex Ferns, Noof Ousellam, Wilf Scolding, Duncan Pow, Ben Bailey Smith, Lee Ross, Fiona Shaw, Abhin Galeya, Muhanned Bhaier, Ben Miles, Kingsley Amadi, Alex Lawther, Christopher Fairbank.

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(530 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Thom Morecroft: The Last Day You Left Home. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The place in the heart in which to carry Thom Morecroft is not only set aside, but completely reserved, preserved in amber maybe, stored with the knowledge that his songwriting will find a way to brighten the day, and even make the most melancholic of moments take on such a hue of colour that the  expression and depth created is simply magical, beautiful, an arrangement that defies almost any subject that is cared for deeply enough.

Thom Morecroft: The Last Day You Left Home. Single Review. full post

(286 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

The Northman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Elliott Rose, Willem Dafoe, Phill Martin, Eldar Skar, Olwen Fouéré, Edgar Abram, Jack Gassman, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Oscar Novak, Jack Walsh, Björk, Ian Whyte, Katie Pattinson, Andrea O’Neill, Rebecca Ineson, Katie Dickie, Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney, Kevin Horsham, Seamus O’ Hara, Scott Sinclair, Tadhg Murphy, James Yates, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Ian Gerard Whyte, Ralph Ineson, Murray McArthur, Nille Glæsel, Jonas Lorentzen, Magne Osnes, Ineta Sliuzaite, Finn Lafferty, Jon Campling, Helen Roche, Faoileann Cunningham, Gareth Parker, Mark Fitzgerald, Gavin Peden, Eric Higgins, Matt Symonds.

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(574 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

We Are Not Alone. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Declan Baxter, Georgia May Foote, Vicki Pepperdine, Bruce Mackinnon, Amanda Abbington, Evelyn Monk, Laurance Rickard, Joe Thomas, Ben Willbond, Mike Wozniak, Rob Delaney, Miles Jupp, Lucien Laviscount, Ellie White, Roya Amini, Dane Baptiste, Christine Barton-Brown, Paul Coldrick, Glen Davies, Trev Fleming, Aoibhin Murphy, Ali Mylon, Daniel Ogbeide-John, Peter Slater, Rebecca Yeo.

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(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (2022 Deluxe Album Edition). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Between Private Dancer and Foreign Affair stood a woman who was willing to break every conceivable rule if it meant that she could have artistic and physical autonomy over every aspect of her personal and music life.

Rules are man-made, and it takes an artist, a woman of Tina Turner’s vision to smash them, to take the patriarchy apart and dictate that she cannot be controlled anymore, a message to all women, to all who feel the effects of being damaged by the man and the system.

Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (2022 Deluxe Album Edition). Album Review. full post

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

Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Ever since the idea hit the first artist and studio executive, the concept of the live album has been rightly heralded as a boon; and at times an act of division. If left unchecked the reputation of a group would depend entirely on what is recorded in the spur of the moment, if not encouraged then many a music fan would never get to experience the sound in a venue, would never get to embrace the feeling of being like-minded individuals singing along to their favourite song as of taking part in a kind of communion, of sharing an intimacy.

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(633 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Toyah: Live At The Rainbow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For anyone who was on the cusp of either being a teenager or enjoying the revels of the age in the late 70s and early 80s in the areas that surround King’s Heath, the once former hamlets before incorporation into the city of Birmingham, the likes of Selly Park, Stirchley, Moor Green, Wake Green, Hall Green and Cotteridge, they must have looked at what was going on around the rest of Birmingham and felt bitter pangs of jealousy…for everywhere it seemed had their music heroes, they had an identity in which to hang their youth and their anger upon, and they had none.

Toyah: Live At The Rainbow. Album Review. full post

(615 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

Alan Triggs: Breaking My Bones. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is only time that separates us from the misery and fear of the 1930s. The signs are there if you wish to acknowledge them, but for most the desperation, the scale of distress, is only something happening to other people, and whilst the ripples are getting larger, whilst the wake catches more in its increasing net, so the denials of the larger picture become louder, more vociferous, more intense.

If you want to understand how the situation is engulfing the soul, you only must realise how desperate good people are getting and what they will consider doing to keep their lives intact.

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(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)