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Jurassic Domination. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 0/10

Cast: Eric Roberts, Jack Pearson, Jamie Bernadette, Azeem Vecchio, Kahlo De Jesus Buffington, DeAngelo Davis, Eric Guilmette, John Crosby, Miranda Meadows, Alissa Filoamo, Nicole Starrett, Jenny Tran, Torrey Richardson, Trevor Champion Rogers.

The ‘B’ movie, maligned by some, praised by others for their innovation and for giving the relative unknown actor or director, even writer, their first big chance to impress on screen, has for generations of film lovers been part of their discovery of the genre, and by contrast for those willing to delve to a depth that the big players refuse to entertain, given them a so-called guilty pleasure that makes dinner table conversation lighter and gives a retrospective analysis of the stars who have inhabited the reels.

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(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Freaky. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Celeste O’Connor, Misha Osherovich, Emily Holder, Alan Ruck, Nicholas Stargel, Kelly Lamor Wilson, Mitchell Hoog, Dana Drori, Katie Finneran, Alonzo Ward, Dustin Lewis, Jennifer Pierce Mathus, Uriah Shelton, Melissa Collazo, Zack Shires, Magnus Diehl, Dane Davenport, Nick Arapoglou, Charles Green, Michelle Ladd, Don Starlings, Brooke Jaye Taylor, Sarafina King, Tim Johnson, Carter W Glade, Ezra Sexton, Maria Sager.

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

Ryan Traster: Low Mirada. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We learn about different cultures, history, and geography is different ways, some from behind a desk cramming their brains with knowledge from books, periodicals and appropriate university-backed journals; others find that the simple act of following any sports team is enough to acquire the knowledge of a city, a town, and its people. Yet it is arguably only through travelling, of actually putting your soul into the world that we can honestly say we have seen the nooks and crannies, we have walked upon roads that now dead civilisations have trodden upon, we have breathed the same air as heroes and villains alike that have inhabited high office and low life bars alike…it is the place of the Low Mirada, where self-incrimination is more of a persuasive admittance that we have places and locations always on our minds.

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(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbott: Manchester Calling. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There was a time when Manchester spoke that the world would listen with intensity, and whilst that sense of exposure has somewhat dissipated in recent times, those heady days when The Hacienda would bellow, when Oasis would rage on stage at Maine Road, when the roar of a Georgi Kinkladze mazy run was assured the calls of encore in much the same vein as Black Grape as they strutted their monumental character on stage are but a memory.

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(433 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Revival Black: Under The Light. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Step in line or stand out, and though the hypocrites and demanders will see the latter as a form of self-indulgence they can’t wait to knock and bring down, the fact is that Under The Light of examination, under the spotlight of consideration and analysis, the worthy, the brilliant, the exceptional, will always stand out and be looked upon as the revival of a period which they themselves have been inspired by; and thought upon as those without shadow, without equal.

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(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Muse: Will Of The People. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Arguably there has never been a time in British history when the Will Of The People has been more under threat, where every gain made, every step taken forward in the name of progress of equality and rights has been not slowly or gradually removed, but systematically and swiftly desecrated, a bonfire of the backbone, a funeral pyre of the resolve which now poses the risk of inflaming the natural ambivalence handed down by generations into a national conflict; and they are not just to blame, but the will of the people is as well…for we have allowed this to happen.

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Only Murders In The Building. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Amy Ryan, Jane Houdyshell, Teddy Coluca, Michael Cyril Creighton, Jackie Hoffman, Aaron Dominguez, Vanessa Aspillaga, Ryan Broussard, Tina Fey, Adina Version, Nathan Lane, Jane Lynch, Sting, Russell G. Jones, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, James Caverly, Daniel Oreskes, Julian Cihi, Jaboukie Young-White, Zainab Jah, Ali Stoker, Jeena Yi, Orson Hong, Kirk Kelly, Mauli Pancholy, Olivia Reis, Esteban Benito,

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(646 words, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)

Bonfire Radicals: The Space Between. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Time was when the unexpected was truly one of mystery, the impending release that wasn’t covered in fanfare or immediate elaboration by the music press. The sniff of a single being the solitary clue to the direction of the album, The Space Between flourish and reveal being one of magic expanse and how your day would filter and mould around this new presence between hours, between waking moments.

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(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Noah Deemer: The Sleepwalker. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Is it sleepwalking or is it swimming in the wake of the stream of consciousness that moves our souls in ways we never dreamed possible, both seem to push the mind further than it might feel comfortable, but once it is accepted as a conduit for thinking beyond the perceived normal then it is possible to view any artform as inevitable, that thinking alone is not a pastime to be shackled or ridiculed by those who seek to imply that the action is unproductive.

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(342 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Panic! At The Disco: Viva Las Vengeance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

The mindset of the human being is such that we either look back on what we were with fondness or with sheer regret, there is no sense of the benign or indifference to be found within the past, it is either glory or criticism, pleasure or pain, and it is in that analyse that perhaps shapes our future to the extent that we enter middle age and beyond with trepidation; the wish to do better, to be seen as evolving, to refuse to shout with exclamation of joy and bow down to the anger of our own self-effacement.

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