Author Archives: admin

Midsomer Murders: The Ghost Of Causton Abbey. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Amber Aga, Michael Byrne, Beth Cooke, John Cummins, Zebb Dempster, Angela Griffin, Tony Gardner, Anita Harris, Jason Merrells, Anjili Mohindra, Chu Omambala, Elaine Paige, Justin Pierre.

The curse is a powerful tool when it comes to bringing a story of murder to life, it is the symbol of the preordained motif that will weave itself through the narrative and give a sense of comfort, as well as cunning, to the viewer as they watch the gruesome tale of death unfold.

Midsomer Murders: The Ghost Of Causton Abbey. Television Review. full post

(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Captain Marvel. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Gemma Chan, Lee Pace, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law, Annette Bening, Djimon Hounsou, Rune Temte, Colin Ford, Clark Gregg, Chuku Modo, Lashana Lynch, Robert Kazinsky, Kenneth Mitchell, Marilyn Brett, Stan Lee.

There are times when you look at a film and understand the hype that has been attached to it, that the feeling of a completed article is close at hand, and yet in the same recognised thought, you see the issues that others have labelled down and wondered if they even went into the screening with that one purpose of mind, straight forward, non-objective or stereotyped open mindedness.

Captain Marvel. Film Review. full post

(604 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

Macbeth, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sean Jones, Warwick Evans, Kaitlin Howard, Tim Lucas, Tracy Spencer-Jones, Lenny Wood, Gillian Hardie, Mary Fogg, Michael Hawkins, Lisle Des Landes, Ethan Holmes, Gareth Llewelyn, Harvey Jameson, Elinor Jones.

There is almost no comparison for many fans and scholars of Shakespeare’s volume of work, aside perhaps the essential Hamlet and arguably the scale of Julius Caesar, nothing can touch the suspense and drama of Macbeth. Perhaps because of its close relationship to the darkness in the soul of the ambitious, the craving of being proclaimed the finest, the best and knowing your fate before it is time, that marks it as a play in which to be immersed within.

Macbeth, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Bryan Adams, Shine A Light. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Looking forward it always seems perfectly sensible to Shine A Light into the darkness, into the unexpected and day to day unknown, the challenging, often energy draining, action comes with taking that light and looking at where you have been, behind you, into the past where such regrets and missed opportunities come back to not only haunt you but to make you feel conspicuous as to your mind set in the present day.

Bryan Adams, Shine A Light. Album Review. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

The Aftermath. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Alexander Skarsgard, Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke, Martin Compston, Kate Phillips, Jannik Schumann, Fionn O’Shea, Alexander Scheer, Flora Thiemann, Tom Bell, Jim High, Anna Katherina Schimirigk, Abigail Rice, Iva Sindelkova, Logan Hillier, Joseph Arkley, Fredrick Preston, Claudia Vasekova.

The Aftermath. Film Review. full post

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

Bob Leslie, The Barren Fig. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 9/10


The curated sense of the critic will often dismiss a piece of art because it doesn’t suit their view of the world. All that they learned perhaps in the mud and avoiding arrows of open-mindedness is left to become bleak, a simmering condescension of opinions, desolate, and one that is left to become sterile, and all because it finally came across that they didn’t care, that they no longer gave a damn to how the view of the world has changed since they first drew fiery breathe.

Bob Leslie, The Barren Fig. Album Review. full post

(463 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Natalie McCool, Women’s World. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is no such thing as a beautiful minefield, there is only the dream of utopia, but it comes with a cost that some are happy to wash away, almost cleanse, how they got to that situation in the first place, when history is written, invariably it has been from a point of view that has determined the loudest voices have had their say first, and to the detriment of others, to the subjugation, a certain view point has been lost, been allowed to have been censured and erased.

Natalie McCool, Women’s World. Single Review. full post

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

Queensrÿche, The Verdict. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Verdict is yours, the conclusion of years of following a particular band or genre is at the end of it all, down to the listener and how they respond to the memories and how the artist has progressed, how the original shape has morphed and adapted to the changes to which Time throws out like a snare, a trap in to which to fall, or to avoid, either being a godsend, both being the point of experience, and one to which some bands are negligent of observing, one that  Queensryche across their own time have been successful of overpowering and conquering; albeit it to the cost of personnel and their once distinctive sound over the years.

Queensrÿche, The Verdict. Album Review. full post

(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Endeavour: Degüello. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, Sean Rigby, James Bradshaw, Caroline O’Neil, Sara Vickers, Simon Harrison, Richard Riddell, Alexander Hanson, Faith Omole, Zaris-Angel Hator, Carol Royle, Laura Donoughue, Michael Jenn, Precious Mustapha, Paul Jesson, Aiden McArdle, Alison Newman, Ian Saynor, Tom Gordon, Abigail Thaw, Colin Tierney, Ian Burfield.

Endeavour: Degüello. Television Review. full post

(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day, Maya Rudolph, Will Ferrell, Jadon Sand, Brooklynn Prince, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayiade, Ben Schwartz, Noel Fielding, Jason Momoa, Cobie Smulders, Ike Barinholtz, Ralph Fiennes, Will Forte, Jimmy O. Yang, Jorma Taccone, Bruce Willis, Gary Paton, Sheryl Swoopes, Todd Hansen, Doug Nicholas.

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. Film Review. full post

(541 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)