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Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Ashley Zukerman, Eddie Izzard, Valorie Curry, Beau Knapp, Sumalee Montano, Rick Gonzalez, Sammi Rotibi, Greg Bryk, Raoul Bhaneia, Laura de Cartret, Keenan Jolliff, Tyrone Benskin, Mark Gibbon, Steve Cumyn, Dalal Badr, Batz Recinos, Gage Graham-Arbutnot, Ben Carlson, Tamara Duarte, Emily Piggford, Michael Blake, Gia Sandhu.

Any form of art requires faith, from the person painstakingly producing the scene to which others are meant to be inspired, to the audience, singular or large scale, who are the hopeful beneficiaries of the human endeavour, who hope to be blessed by its appearance, by its magnificence.



Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Television Review. full post

(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

A Discovery Of Witches (Series One). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Edward Bluemel, Owen Teale, Louise Brealey, Malin Buska, Aiysha Hart, Alex Kingston, Lindsay Duncan, Valarie Pettiford, Trevor Eve, Greg McHugh, Tanya Moodie, Damiel Ezra, Elarica Johnson, Trystan Gravelle, Adetomiwa Edun, Sophia Myles, David Newman, Sorcha Cusack, Chloe Dumas, Gregg Chillin.

“Those who don’t believe in magic, are doomed never to find it”.

A Discovery Of Witches (Series One). Television Review. full post

(620 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

Kate Green, A Dark Carnival. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A Dark Carnival resides within us all, we might not allow the fair rides and galleries to be accessed by just anyone with the five shillings required to gain entry, but once inside they will come to appreciate what exactly drives the carriages onwards, it may not be their cup of tea, they might consider it more of a lengthy ghost train that has far too much emphasis on fate rather than celebration, but it is honest, it is a different kind of beauty in which to focus upon and one that is in reality a brighter ride to enjoy than one shrouded in make believe.

Kate Green, A Dark Carnival. Album Review. full post

(405 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Every Morning

Sometimes I open the blinds

to witness the dark at four o’clock

in all its stillness.

But more often than not I keep

them closed, till the Sun insists

its alive and well, screaming

into the darkness that becomes

a whisper of joyful light by the time

it reaches my ears…

and yet every morning,

long before the birds

see the march of time and early worms

I question whether 

I should continue,

every morning I ask if you

Every Morning full post

(100 words, estimated 24 secs reading time)

Dryad Music, Folk Magic. Album Review. (Various Artists).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Legendary creatures don’t just appear overnight, fully formed and appearing before an audience, they require time to become the marvel that they are destined to be, and whether it is the forms of those who have become fables in the eyes of humanity, the beings who are part of much older stories than we can conceive, or the various artists, the dreamers, the thinkers, the believers in fortune, the dynamics of interaction through music, song, dance, the pleasure of being alive, what they have in common is persuasion, instinct, undoubted beauty in their soul.

Dryad Music, Folk Magic. Album Review. (Various Artists). full post

(377 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Landscapers. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Olivia Colman, David Thewlis, Kate O’ Flynn, Dipo Ola, Samuel Anderson, Felicity Montagu, David Hayman, Maanuv Thiara, Daniel Rigby, Connie Kiss Mee, Nimisha Odedra, Hayley Carmichael, Lolly Jones, Souad Faress, Tina Harris, Jay Phelps, Garry Cooper, Aaron Neil, Bruce Lester-Johnson, Ali Azhar, Craig Blake, Joanna Burnett, Jason Williamson, John Mackay.

Landscapers. Television Review. full post

(637 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

A Very British Scandal. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Claire Foy, Paul Bettany, Olwen May, Albertine Kotting McMillan, Julia Davis, Richard McCabe, Amanda Drew, Phoebe Nicholls, David Monteath, Mitchell Robertson, Sophia Myles, Don Gallagher, Camilla Rutherford, Sophie Ward, Daniel Burt, Miles Jupp, Timothy Renouf, Katherine Manners, Tim Steed, Nicholas Rowe, Oliver Chris, David Hargreaves, Jonathan Aris, Matt Ripley, Daniel Fearn, Freddie Lund, Alex Skarbek, Phoebe Farnham, Simon Thorp, Matthew Stagg, Lawrence Oswald.

A Very British Scandal. Television Review. full post

(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Vienna Blood: Darkness Rising. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jürgen Maurer, Alexander Absenger, Amelia Bullmore, Josef Ellers, Serge Falck, May Garzon, Lucy Griffiths, Miriam Hie, Conleth Hill, Nicolas Matthews, Charlene McKenna, David Oberkogler, Loenhard Srajer, Erwin Steinhauer, Florian Stetter, Florian Teichmeister, Raphael von Bergen, Luise von Finckh, Johannes Zeiler.

Vienna Blood: Darkness Rising. Television Review. full post

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

Death In Paradise. Christmas Special. (2021)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ralf Little, Don Warrington, Tajh Miles, Elizabeth Bourgine, Danny John-Jules, Josephine Jobert, Matthew Baynton, Tessa Bonham Jones, Anthony Calf, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Tariq Jordan, Elizabeth Tan, Stanley Townsend, Juliet Stevenson, Sara Cox.

You can only be someone else for so long before your old life comes back to haunt you and the person from whose life you lead wants it all back.

Death In Paradise. Christmas Special. (2021) full post

(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

The Suicide Squad. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Viola Davis, Daniela Melchior, David Dastmalchian, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Rooker, Peter Capaldi, John Ostrander, Joel Kinnaman, Nathan Fillon, Jai Courtney, Flula Borg, Mayling Ng, Pete Davidson, Sean Gunn, Stephen Blackehart, Steve Agee, Tinashe Kajese, Jennifer Holland, Storm Reid, Natalia Safran, Jared Leland Gore, Rey Hernandez, Juan Diego Botto, Joaquin Cosio, Gerardo Davila, Mikaela Hoover, Lynne Ashe, Julio Cesar Ruiz, Taika Waititi.

The Suicide Squad. Film Review. full post

(561 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)