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Roger Taylor, Outsider. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To the Outsider looking in, the world is not just a mad, obscene, and quite often ridiculous place, it is the source of all the wealth of inspiration and creative encouragement they need in which to place before those inside the bubble of insecurity and bid them the spur in which to change the world.

However, it is in that madness that the insiders dwell and party as though there is no tomorrow, and for all the beauty, all the demanding truth you lay at their door, inside the bubble of insanity, inhabited by no moral gangsters, charlatans and fake messiahs and gods, they continue listening to only their over inflated opinions and irrational brainstorming insight.

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

Superintelligence. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Melissa McCarthy, James Corden, Bobby Cannavale, Brian Tyree Henry, Sam Richardson, Ben Falcone, Michael Beach, Rachel Ticotin, Jessica St. Clair, Karan Soni, Jean Smart, Ken Griffey Jr., Octavia Spencer, William Daniels, Steve Mallory, Courtney Patterson, Usman Ally, Jenna Perusich, Carolyn Trahan, Jay Lay, Sarah Baker, Mac Alsfeld, Damon Jones, Eduardo Franco, Patrick Bristow.

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(581 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

IndyAnna Baby, I’m Not Giving Up. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We all succumb to a kind of complacency when we are on top of the world, when we feel as though the moment of heightened enjoyment will last forever, it is natural, it is fleeting, and we cannot help ourselves forever seeking out the thrill of it. For in that rush that complacency provides, we forget the truth of its opposite nature, we forget that hope, that tireless courage and faith in the human spirit provides a far greater drive to see us take on the world than the dream of personal, permanent utopia.

IndyAnna Baby, I’m Not Giving Up. Single Review. full post

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

The Goes Wrong Show: Summer Once Again. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Charlie Russell, Greg Tannahill, Dave Hearn. Henry Shields, Jonathan Sayer, Bryony Corrigan, Henry Lewis, Nancy Zamit.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then the company behind the uplifting farce that is provided in the comedy gold of The Goes Wrong Show are an inevitability of circumstance, time, and creation, an innovation that has no boundaries when it comes to placing trust in the conception of a well-timed slapstick moment and the televised charade of mock indignity. If necessity truly is the mother of invention, then the team are the 21st Century equivalent of every true original that ever-brought laughter to the audiences.

The Goes Wrong Show: Summer Once Again. Television Review. full post

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

Endeavour: Terminus. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, James Bradshaw, Caroline O’ Neill, Sara Vickers, Adam Ewan, William Sebag-Montefiore, Anna Burnett, Adam Mirsky, Ray Emmet Brown, Chirag Lobo, Martin Hutson, Marion Bailey, Matthew Marsh, Ben Bishop, Estelle Daniels, Jennifer Kirby, Abigail Thaw, Anthony Flanagan.

When one of the great detectives of British television pays homage to one of the finest, if not the best of murder mystery writers, the outcome, can either be one of forced recoil, almost a cringe of mixed volatility, or as in the case of the Endeavour episode Terminus, can leave the armchair detective almost hugging themselves with glee as the script unfolds, loving the delicate balance created between sheer admiration and genuine impressive insight.

Endeavour: Terminus. Television Review. full post

(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Vigil. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Suranne Jones, Rose Leslie, Shaun Evans, Paterson Joseph, Adam James, Connor Swindells, Gary Lewis, Lolita Chakrabarti, Anjli Mohindra, Lorne MacFadyen, Stephen Dillane, Lois Chimimba, Bobby Rainsbury, Cristian Ortega, Martin Compston, Daniel Portman, Tom Gill, Anita Vettesse, Orla Russell, Reuben Joseph, Cal MacAninch, Aisha Toussaint, Stephen McCole, Lauren Lyle, Theresa Bradley, Parth Thakerar, Oliver Lansley, Dan Li, Jim Sturgeon, Angelique Fernandez.

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(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Blancmange, Commercial Break. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are two ways to look at the world of advertising, one being is that is brings a product into our lives that is indispensable, that will go on to change the course of our day, our year because we were fortunate enough to understand the message that it was carrying; and the other is that we see it as an intrusion, a focused infringement into our psyche, one that can cause the weaker willed to purchase anything, everything, that is placed before them, and therefore cause a draining of resources that might have been put to better use elsewhere.

Blancmange, Commercial Break. Album Review. full post

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

With Love (From A Misspelled Name).

The black marble stones,

engraved without a thought

of personality,

 just information,

barest glimpse, beloved,

much missed by,

called to Heaven,

and a stamped arrival

and departure date,

best possibly during, not after,

are forever on show and never revealed

as the cemetery lays

dormant and rusting,

standing still locked in time

but slowly crumbling…

save me from the forever eternal

I feel welling in my empty heart

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(96 words, estimated 23 secs reading time)

Doctor Who. The Witchfinders. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A reader should never judge a book by its cover, but it is possible to assess and value a book by the film or television show it has been adapted from.

Normally it is the other way round when it comes to the argument between how television and literature is consumed; the sense of “The film is not as the book” is always to be heard when comparisons are drawn between the two physical interpretations of the author’s imagination.

Doctor Who. The Witchfinders. Book Review. full post

(495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Annika. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Nicola Walker, Jamie Sives, Katie Leung, Ukwelu Roach, Silvie Furneaux, Paul McGann, Jade Chan, Kate Dickie, Hannah Donaldson, Saskia Ashdown, Andy Clark, Martin Bell.

A detective must have a quirk to make them more appealing to the television viewer, the moment when the serious equivalent of the comedic catchphrase is long awaited for by those investing their time in the drama, and when it appears gives them a sense of comfort, a reminder that every detective is as prone to the errors of every human, every person, but in which their foible and particular oddity helps them understand the condition of the murderer they have set out to catch.

Annika. Television Review. full post

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