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Inside Man. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Tennant, Stanley Tucci, Dolly Wells, Lyndsey Marshal, Lydia West, Kate Dickie, Eke Chukwu, Boo Golding, Louis Oliver, Atkins Estimond, Dylan Baker, Tilly Vosburgh, Simon Delaney, July Namir, Mark Quartley, Cokey Falkow, Victoria Willing, Harry Cadby, Reynah Rita, Tim Berrington, Charlie Bentley, Malek Aloni, Lee Byford, Suzanne Ahmet, Amie Buhari, Sharon Sze, Aaliya James.

Scream (2022). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Melissa Barrera, Jack Quaid, Mikey Madison, Jenny Ortega, Dylan Minnette, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Sonia Ammar, Marley Shelton, Skeet Ulrich, Kyle Gallner, Chester Tam, Reggie Conquest, Heather Matarazzo, Brooke Barnhill, Stephen West-Rogers, Milli M, Roger Jackson.

It is only when you re-immerse yourself back into the realm of previous encounters that you witness just how much of it was for your benefit, the sense that the scene before you taking place was possibly scripted, that you were fooled into believing one thing, when in actual fact the opposite was the true course of action taken; it is enough to make you scream time after time, but one that is of anguished understanding rather than let down annoyance.

Monstrous. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christina Ricci, Santino Barnard, Don Baldaramos, Colleen Camp, Lew Temple, Carol Anne Watts, Jennifer Novak Chun, Peter Hodge, Nick Vallelonga, Sally Elbert, Lola Grace, Rachael Edlow, Darin Cooper, Aimey Beer, Neraida Bega, Philip V. Bruenn, Matt Lovell, Nancy O’ Fallon, Chris Mullinax, Anjoum Agrama, Olivia Reid, Kathy Sue Holtorf.

The very act of being part of, or witnessing, a traumatic event is such that for those who live through it, the mind will do whatever it can to protect them from the images, the constant emotional distress that will creep into their lives when they least expect it, or the triggers that will accumulate and cause the brain to fracture, to cause a schism that will separate truth from fiction.

Slipknot: The End, So Far. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you don’t know what you’re expecting by now, then you must be living in a circus, for how else do you explain the sense of colour, the wonderful madness, the sheer scope of the metaphorical three ringed extravaganza that accompanies the drama of Slipknot. For what you should be expecting is the unexpected, the inquisition of the unforeseen, the anticipation of the startling effect, and who better to grab your attention that one of the most dynamic and self-motivated bands of the last two decades, than that of Slipknot.

Tankard: Pavlov’s Dawgs. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are all summoned by the sound of someone else’s bell, some will become accustomed to the conditioning that they slaver and slave to produce the required response, others will timidly follow suit in the hope they are seen to be seen, their entire existence it seems is to bow and beg to the hand that feeds; and then there are those who hear the bell, understand that it is time to shine, but will go out of their way to fight for what is right, to bite the hand that feeds if needs be, if it means others are set free to be exactly who they want to be.

Blancmange: Private View. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Whether alone in a grand ballroom, or through a peep hole as the moon rises overhead and the crowds mill around you in the less than seedy part of Times Square in the early 1990s, a Private View is one that carries a certain privilege, as well as the inevitable connotations that are drawn, the sense of remoteness as the emotions tumble and swirl are there to remind you that a private view is just that, one that can only be shared after the fact, and by doing so you become the presenter of a unique and possibly thrilling experience.

Rory Gallagher: Deuce – 50th Anniversary Edition Box Set.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Hindsight is a power much abused by those who seek to redress their viewpoint, to move it away from what could be seen as crass, as perhaps mean spirited, and certainly often fuelled by an agenda unbecoming that of the ordinary person.

The reflection of enforced observation, the kind that comes from putting distance between the object and the critic, is such that history always reveals more about one, and punishes the grandee of outspoken views in the same cosmic karma breathe. That history, even in fifty years, can be altered to show the truth of sentiment behind someone’s printed opinion, is thankfully available and one that is spellbindingly obvious as the timely extended box set release of Rory Gallagher’s second studio album, Deuce, as it turns a half century old.

Echo & The Bunnymen: Evergreen – 25th Anniversary Edition. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The darkness between light is often painted as one of unescapable torture, of anguished emotions heightened by drama and ongoing threats against the soul. Black is a dichotomy, it is regal, it is the symbol of elegance, and it is the void we look in to when the absence of other colours starts to make our minds panic at that which it cannot fathom, that it feels compelled to be drawn to.

Richard Marx: Songwriter. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Richard Marx is more than just a Songwriter, he is one of those blessed individuals whose very name is synonymous with the art he has immersed himself within, a creator who stands alongside and shoulder to shoulder with many of the greats of the 20th Century, and who has, if it were indeed possibly, surpassed himself as in the following decades has become established in the minds of the modern music listener.

Shakespears Sister: Hormonally Yours. (30th Anniversary Reissue). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

To be great”, as the American poet once insisted, “is to be misunderstood”. Seven words that perhaps on the face of it could be seen as demeaning the application and hard work it takes to be considered touched by genius, to be of the soil and the clay and see the stars clearly and without exaggeration: but Ralph Waldo Emerson showed that greatness is often cursed by those not willing to comprehend the sacrifice made, the sense of madness, the beauty in the mayhem as the art flows, as what is with the human soul comes alive and breathes in the nectar of the illustrious.