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Les Misérables. Television Review. (2019).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Dominic West, Adeel Akhtar, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins, Olivia Coleman, David Bradley, Ellie Bamber, Erin Kellyman, Emma Fielding, Enzo Cilenti, Donald Sumpter, Andre Pasquasy, Turlough Convery, Archie Madekwe, Josh O’Connor, Joseph Quinn,  Natalie Simpson, Angela Wynter, Reece Yates, Derek Jacobi, Jerome Flynn, Darren Kent, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Josef Altin, Anna Calder-Marshall, Alan David, Ron Cook, Archie Madekwe, Lorcan Cranitch, Hayley Carmichael.

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(601 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Escape Room. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani, Deborah Ann Woll, Yorick van Wageningen, Cornelius Geaney Jr, Russell Crous, Bart Fouche, Jessica Sutton, Paul Hampshire, Vere Tinsdale, Kenneth Fok, Caely-Jo Levy, Jaime-Lee Boado, Inge Beckmann.

Escape Room. Film Review. full post

(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Tears For Fears, Gig Review. M & S Bank Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Longevity can be a double-edged sword to which some find themselves at the wrong end of, instead of wielding it as if the fight has always been enjoyable, they fall awkwardly upon it and cause scratches that never heal, the object too heavy to counter, the weapon of love not sown, and yet it can be so beguiling, that fight can be sensational, it can bring about a new type of respect from those that might not have seen you perform in the heat of battle for the time it takes to change their colours and your armour.

Tears For Fears, Gig Review. M & S Bank Arena, Liverpool. full post

(500 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Alison Moyet, Gig Review. M & S Bank Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is a little under two years since Alison Moyet wowed the audience inside the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, the November evening being one of the most hauntingly beautiful to have taken place inside the grandness of the city’s prestigious venue. Time never diminishes such a talent like Alison Moyet, the setting may change, the atmosphere may vary, but for legends of music, to which Ms. Moyet undoubtedly belongs, what remains is the sheer exuberance and the depth of their passion for the chance to perform in front of an audience.

Alison Moyet, Gig Review. M & S Bank Arena, Liverpool. full post

(372 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

The Mule. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Manny Montana, Taissa Farmiga, Andy Garcia, Alison Eastwood, Michael Pena, Jill Flint, Laurence Fishburne, Clifton Collins Jr., Dianne Wiest, Ignacio Serricchio, Noel Gugliemi, Robert LaSardo, Katie Gill, Eugene Cordero.

There will come a time when the cinematic world will be without Clint Eastwood and Dianne Wiest as a shining examples of how actors of a certain era on screen can still convey such depths of emotion with a single look down the barrel of the camera that you cannot but feel certain emotions come to the forefront of your mind as you watch them effortlessly portray life. Awe, grace, hope, they all have their dynamic hold on the cinema goer, and whilst actors such as Michael Pena, Laurence Fishburne and Bradley Cooper bring a wonderful passion to the screen, it is to a golden generation that perhaps we owe a life-long debt of enjoying cinema to.

The Mule. Film Review. full post

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

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Kit Harrington, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, F. Murray Abraham, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Craig ferguson, Justin Rupple, A.J. Kane.

It never ceases to amaze just how animation can make you appreciate all that you may have once feared, how it can illuminate a moment into clarity in such a way that its more artistically speaking and human face can ever think of achieving.

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Film Review. full post

(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Emilie Khan, Outro. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There comes a time when we must move away from the childhood possessions and the thought of separation of voice and consequence as being two distinctive entities, we must do this in order to grow, to oblige the commitment shown to the series of assumptions and half formed ideas that we have had, and truly embrace the world with our own name and our own right of expression.

Emilie Khan, Outro. Album Review. full post

(418 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Rusty Shackle, The Raven, The Thief & The Hangman. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Stories are important, vital, central to the idea of what we are, the ability to weave a tale and have it last for generations is perhaps the reason why there is some approximate truth in the myths and legends that have given us a basis in which our lives have been built upon. Whilst dragons are not visible to our eyes, while the lost island of Atlantis evokes memories but no shred of final resting place, and the resting place of King Arthur remains a shrouded mystery, it is not to say that the folk legends that have grown up around them are any less intriguing than they were at the time of their first mentions by our ancestor’s tongues.

Rusty Shackle, The Raven, The Thief & The Hangman. Album Review. full post

(472 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Calva Louise, Rhinoceros. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

You may never have stepped into a boxing ring, you might find that pugilism is something you shy away from or even actively discourage your offspring from taking up as a sport but unless you have strapped on a pair of gloves and looked into your opponent’s eyes as the bell rings, then perhaps you will not recognise the pummelling that you are about to receive, and with thanks, from newcomers, Calva Louise.

Calva Louise, Rhinoceros. Album Review. full post

(389 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Simon Thacker, Trikala. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

“The trouble is, you think you have time”, the occasion is such that few of us truly take the positive step to go out into the world and create something insanely beautiful that it will actively unite people from different countries and who will undoubtedly have different ways of expressing their thoughts. We all want a place in the future, the recognition for being active in the present and yet we are hampered with almost unbearable crushing pessimism that our past will get in the way, that it will stop us from enjoying the sense of Trikala, the sense of humanity’s relationship with those three ghostly shades of Time.

Simon Thacker, Trikala. Album Review. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)