Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The lure of darkness is not only for those who feel the pain of eternal light blinding them, it is also for those who see the beauty in the shade afforded to them, the brisk walk and the occasional saunter through worlds that are dimmed by nightfall, but which are the highlight of glorious imagination allowed, urged, to run wild.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Home is the place where when you have nowhere else to turn, they take you in.
We have become perhaps to rich in our definition of home in the last decade, keen as we are to acknowledge the various parts that make up our life, the home here, the home town, the birthplace, the motherland, the native soil, and never forgetting the area in which we feel as though we should call home, when in truth home is only ever the place where you are happiest, where you feel safe, where the abundance of our memories are made, where hopefully if life has been fair, our loved ones are waiting for us at the end of time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
An end of times, for a country that is intrinsically, fundamentally divided cannot hope to continue; like a marriage that has hit the wreckage of toxic behaviour, the worst aspects of a country’s outward appearance overshadow any good that can possibly be gleaned, or indeed salvaged, from.
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Wait enough time for something to return and there is a chance that it could prove to be a disappointment. The strength of the eagerly awaited is only underpinned by the result matching the expectancy, and at times the result can feel undervalued, under performed, and perhaps even limp, as the wrestle between anticipation and actuality becomes blurred and distorted in the eyes and soul of the one who killed time in the presence of the shadow of projected results.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Rita Tushingham, Synnove Karlsen, Michael Ajao, Pauline McLynn, Terrance Stamp, Sam Clafflin, Elizabeth Berrington, Jessie Mei Li, Rebecca Harrod, Kassius Nelson, Aimee Cassettari, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Beth Singh.
It is an old city and there are plenty of ghosts trapped amongst us who cannot rest, even with constant re-invention and new blood lured there in the promise of put their stamp on the world thanks to its influence, London cannot escape its own damaged past, its own cycle of death and mystery, for no matter what part of that mass conglomeration made of bricks and mortar, the ghosts have nowhere else to call home, nowhere else they can finally hope to see justice restored.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Jack Riddiford, Claire Skinner, Lily Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Paul McGann, Ben Batt, Daisy Bevan, Kelvin Fletcher, Paul Forman, Naoki Mori, John Omole, Bluey Robinson, Bill Skinner, Bridgitta Roy, Nino Furuhata, Louise Jameson.
There are sports that seem universally embraced and then there are those that to a proportion of the population is not for them, that is not only fuelled by a passion that defies logic, but can seem reckless, spoiled by money, out of the realms to ordinary men and women, and in the case of motor racing, is all about the one second glimpse of the vehicle, a second in which A Billion Beats of the heart can seem to be over in a flash.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
We must remove the earphones from their fleshy sockets and truly acknowledge the sound of the Songbird whilst we can. To wander in nature and feel the unblemished and resolute call to the early morning sun or the final song of rest as the day comes to its conclusion, is freedom that resonates unflinchingly, the adaption of the songbird’s voice, its pleasure, its pain, the very being that its soul is urging all around the hear, that is the liberty of expression that comes with opening ourselves up to the beauty of the voice.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Hearsay is all well and good, but if you want the truth, you go directly to the source.
The debut album is always one that captures the spirit of what went before, the old adage of it being a reflection of your life up until the moment it is released, no matter how old the artist, or even what genre they put their thoughts out into the world from, the debut is important, it is the standard bearer for what is come.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Every generation has its way of dealing with the undead. Whether it comes in the form of political observation transformed into pop culture critique, or the fierce biting satire of purposeful declaration of war against a population willing to look the other way until the effect of wrong is found scratching at the door and the sound of rabid death is proclaimed up on what they see is their acre of space in the universe; each generation deals with the fall out of the horror that awaits in their own way.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram, Vivien Lyre Blair, Hayden Christensen, Rupert Friend, James Earl Jones, Kumail Nanjiani, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Indira Varma, Marisé Álvarez, Maya Erskine, Jimmy Smits, Grant Feely, Flea, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Simone Kessell, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Liam Neeson.
Ewan McGregor’s time as Obi-Wan Kenobi always seemed short and one that arguably carried, alongside Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine, the prequel trio of films that framed the Star Wars franchise to a place where the maligned nature and often heavy-handed criticism is thankfully overlooked.