Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10
Light the blue touch paper and step back far enough so you don’t feel the scorch marks as the rocket takes off, take care when handling the explosive, the 12-track piece of dynamite provides, and admire fully the magnificence on display, the sense of eruption, the upsurge in heat as you decree that the eruption of sound that accompanies the spectacle should go Faster.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There will be sorcerers and magicians who insist you cannot perform without an intact wand, conductors who claim that the baton has to be unbroken and true for it to have any effect on the orchestra, they are of course wrong, for The Sound Of The Broken Wand is in the heart and soul of any communication, any magic spell weaved that leaves you entranced by what you have been made privy to; it might not be the spell or the incantation you were looking for, but in the right hands it is influential, it is charming, it is boisterous, uplifting, and embracing.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Karen Gillan, Lena Hedley, Paul Giamatti, Paul Ineson, Carla Cugino, Angela Bassett, Michelle Yeoh, Chloe Coleman, Mai Duong Kieu, Michael Smiley, Samuel Anderson, Jack Bandeira, David Burnell IV, Ivan Kaye, Joanna Bobin, Freya Allan, Ed Birch, Adam Nagaitis, Joshua Grothe, Hannes Pastor, Billy Buff, Lee Huang.
Women with attitude and girls with guns, not the combination so cinema goers or film buffs of a certain persuasion will find room for in their lives, but a subject of perspective that is always fascinating, and in many ways necessary.
There are times
when
I am so ashamed,
that I have to avert my eyes
to the damage
I
inflict upon
myself.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The one who owns a reckless heart has all the qualities in the world to be proud to unveil The Blues Album.
Once an artist has shown you their heart, you will forever be spellbound by their performance and fascinated by their acknowledgement of the blues within their soul; and that is certainly true of Britain’s premier 21st Century Blues player, Joanne Shaw Taylor, for in the simplicity of the recognition of her latest album’s title, lays behind it the pulse of a soul that truly has immersed itself into the hearts of those, regardless of their affiliation to other genres, who find themselves awestruck by her tenacity, her fierce, sheer unquenchable flame that illuminates her every move on her beloved guitar.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Art means nothing if you cannot learn from the pain you have endured, if you can’t find a way to rise above the anguish caused and leave a trace, a substantial peace offering, or indeed a proverbial middle finger to those who set you on your own path of discovery; for in the end art is meant to be the great healer and the great provider of revenge, and payback is not about keeping a war going, but living the best life you are able to, because nothing annoys the haters more than being able to live up to your name and the prestige it carries.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lolly Adefope, Matthew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurance Rickard, Ben Willbond, Katy Wix, Geoff McGivern, Jessica Knappett.
Uproariously silly, who knew that being a ghost could do so much for your sense of humour, who could have realised that being able to see the dead would give your spirits a rise. For three series in to become one of the great British comedies of the last decade, up there with the intricate mayhem provided by The Goes Wrong Show, Not Going Out and Vicious, Ghosts is the joy provided by a set of writers who understand that with a great gag must come pathos, that truth is born out of farce, and these sterling qualities have the obligation to be captured by actors to whom timing and sympathy to the character is an absolute commitment.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Allison Janney, Malcolm McDowell, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Liv Hewson, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Rob Delaney, Mark Duplass, Stephen Root, Robin Weigert, Amy Landecker, Mark Moses, Nazanin Boniadi, Ben Lawson, Alanna Ubach, Andy Buckley, Brooke Smith, Bree Condon, D’Arcy Carden, London Fuller, Sedina Fuller, Kevin Dorff, Richard Kind, Michael Buie, Marc Evan Jackson, Anne Ramsey, Holland Taylor, Jennifer Morrison, Ashley Greene, Ahna O’Reilly, Lisa Canning, Elisabeth Röhm, Alice Eve.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
We are living in a time where the expression of grief is either firmly encouraged or damned as being self-interested, almost self-seeking, and there seems to be no middle ground between those who understand the empathy required to show someone you care enough to allow them the time and space needed to be able to go beyond the initial stages of hurt, and those who will do anything to ridicule and inflict further embarrassment on those willing to place their heart, not only on their sleeve, but in the glare of the intense judgement available of those with the loudest voices.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
To expect an artist to produce the same material time and again shows that find the process of individual evolution is beyond you, for whilst art has been reduced to an entertainment rather than attainment, we must remember that in the end the art has been only loaned to us, we are the ones who benefit from the process, but the overall canon of work belongs solely to the artist; it is their generosity and need that sees it come to life in the minds of those seeking illumination.