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Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Rachel McAdams, Hayley Atwell, Jett Klyne, Julian Hilliard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sheila Hilliard, Adam Hugill, Lasana Lynch, John Krasinski, Charlize Theron, Bruce Campbell, Anson Mount, Patrick Stewart.

All that you is not just down to how you act in this world, it is also how others see you, what they witness, what they perceive, their judgements and their biased convictions; but what if it went deeper than that, what if the shroud of what we are, when pulled back, revealed more than just one face, but several, each with their own history, each with a perception of life that is reflected in the decisions and paths taken, and those we believe we would never take.

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(514 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Logan Kim, Celeste O’Connor, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Sigourney weaver, Bob Gunton, J.K. Simmons, Shawn Seward, Billy Bryk, Sydney Mae Diaz, Hannah Duke.

Nostalgia isn’t just reminiscing for what is missed, in some cases it is a wistfulness that shouldn’t be touched, it is the catalyst of return, and whether the moment of the resumption of a tale or a friendship meets our expectations, it cannot be denied that it fuels the longing and the melancholy for what was the original first meeting.

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

Inside No. 9: Nine Lives Kat. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Sophie Okonedo, Robin Weaver, Siobhan Redmond, Coco-Lili Hoder.

The space between the writer and their creation is one so small that they can often overlap, they become one and the same, the observation of one enhances the act of the other, and in this merging of souls the space narrows to the most infinite of spaces possible.

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(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Moon Knight. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy, F. Murray Abraham, David Ganly, Ann Akinjiran, Karim El Hakim, Michael Benjamin Hernandez, Shaun Scott, Antonia Salib, Khalid Abdalla, Lucy Thackeray, Fernanda Andrada, Rey Lucas.

An almost unceasing roster of characters to draw from, an embarrassment of riches, a plethora of costumed superheroes in which to bring to the screen, and yet one of the most underrated might never have seen the light beyond the pages of the graphic novel had it not been for the persistence of Time and the pulling power of Disney and Marvel combined.

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(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

The Waterboys: All Souls Hill. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The strongly denied words of those that insist that poetry is meaningless often stings in the ears of those who arguably understand the world in greater depth, it happens more than some may think, and yet poetry, perhaps simpler to construct than a novel or most other art forms, but no less devastating when the soul and heart, and the mind connect with it, when it offers a path to vivid imagination, a realm of personal enlightenment, and the chance to feel the universe within the pulse of your fingers, is a truth that is found all around.

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(411 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Graham Nash: Live – Songs For Beginners -Wild Tales. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are names within the 20th Century that have transcended their time, that have not only etched their name in a period that they are associated with, but have carved, scored a deep groove across its neighbouring century that they tip the metal scales in favour of continuance, of being an extension of angels and sirens that gathered listeners around them as they told Wild Tales and sang the melody of Songs For Beginners.

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(546 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Ronald MacDonald: Time Stands Still. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

No matter what we do to keep ourselves in a manner of which we have become accustomed, sooner or later the itch of denial becomes too hard to ignore, and that which first illuminated our souls, soon comes back to call the tunes and light the path ahead.

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

Kate Rusby: 30: Happy Returns. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A hook comes later, but art should at first surprise and gratify, not perhaps having to explain its existence, but certainly living up to the bill as an element of persuasion, a seeker no doubt of a universal truth, a beating heart which pulls others into its sphere of influence, and which wishes the heartfelt love for those who find themselves captivated by its shining example.

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

Macca & Beth, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. Theatre Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Emma Bispham, Gordon Kane, Andrea Miller, Jerome Ngonadi, Danny O’Brien, Jamie Smelt, Karen Young.

“No legacy is so rich as honesty”, as the bard of Stratford noted in All’s Well That End’s Well, or if trust in honour isn’t the bag you entertain when thinking of wills, then to think of theatre as a plaything to be held at arm’s length is a foolish notion that we must discard quickly and efficiently if we are to continue thinking that society is an inheritance that we must preserve at all costs.

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

Kenny Neal: Straight From The Heart. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When we look to America for inspiration, we tend to look to the East and West Coasts, it may be natural too certain eyes to do so, after all it is the purpose of trade to navigate the oceans between lands and to only seek what is within when the deep sea has been navigated, when the water that separates us has been tamed enough for a single crossing in which ideas and philosophies can be exchanged.

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