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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.

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(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.

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(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.

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(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.

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(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.

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

Doctor Who -The War Doctor Begins: Warbringer. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating ****

Cast: Jonathon Carley, Adèle Anderson, Ajjaz Awad, John Banks, Nicholas Briggs, Angela Bruce, Beth Chalmers, Nigel Fairs, Stephen Frost, Timothy Hofmeier, Janet Prince, Jessica Temple.

To be a survivor of war is a blessing and a curse, either way you are unscathed by its effect on your mind and soul, it is how you deal with the anger, loss, and the stripped of humanity feeling which shows how the desire for revenge, or the ability to forgive will shape the future you have been offered.

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(634 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

No Time To Die. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malik, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomi Harris, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, David Dencik, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, Lisa-Dorah Sonnet, Coline Defaud, Mathilde Bourbin, Hugh Dennis, Priyanga Burford.

Debates will rage on long after his replacement in the franchise is announced, a new favourite taking in the mantle as Ian Fleming’s suave, and sometimes brutal, hero, but as the final moments of No Time To Die roll, as the memories re-emerge of intricately drawn characters, of timely antagonists capturing the era with sublime fierceness, and of a screen hero facing arguably his own mortality, what we should arguably be recognising is that Daniel Craig as 007 is the greatest version of super British spy, James Bond, we might ever be treated to.

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

The Mezzotint. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Rory Kinnear, Frances Barber, Robert Bathurst, John Hopkins, Nikesh Patel, Emma Cunliffe, Tommaso Di Vincenzo.

It is the embracement of life, of being thankful for what you have, and not the chance to add want to the overburdened and groaning table or under pressure waiter serving you another daily dose of charm, reality, and thought, that makes Christmas special, for in reality we see the shadows that skulk at the door, we feel the draft at our feet whilst the heart is cosy, and in that heartbeat that makes us inhale deeply, that causes a string of sweat to form on the brow, we find the night before the ‘big day’ the true meaning of being alive.

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(589 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

Not Going Out (Christmas Special 2021).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Breton, Deborah Grant, Geoffrey Whitehead, Hugh Dennis, Abigail Cruttenden, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley.

The trick is to so all you can to stay fresh whilst never betraying the core values of what made you popular in the first place; if you can master that then the world of entertainment and art is at your beckoned call.

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