Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Cole, Brett Goldstein, Lois Chimimba, Suzanne Packer, Ben Bailey-Smith, David Shields, Jack Shalloo.
For the vast majority of British television watchers, there is nothing like a riddle wrapped inside a mystery and surrounded by the hard-boiled charm of the perpetual challenge, it is arguably why so many fans and audiences around the world have embraced the enigma of Doctor Who in all its glory.
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..As you recount the image
of a thousand cinematic battles
and deep in water trench wait,
behind you
high above unknown gardens
rockets explode in the bold still sky,
the whizz bangs, whoops promoted
through the ranks
as other former angels die
with a bang, and dirty faces
from the powder that took their lives,
no time to scream, yell
out a warning, just a whispered
time’s up blink as they say good
bye to their mother, and all the while
behind first floor glass
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Be A Man, they say, and the world is your oyster, others have claimed the role of the gender as being an excuse to run roughshod over the population, as if wearing the skin of a man gives you the reason, the right to determine sexual politics in the 21st Century. They also say that behind every great man is a great woman, however, as other enlightened members of the female brigade have shown, perhaps that should be inside the heart of a man, beats the perfect xx chromosome wanting to get out.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Ask not what heart beats in the dark, what noise the pulse makes in the night when alone, for a sense of the terror it is better to understand the fear of hearing thumps of trepidation in the sunlight, what Throbs in day!
The combustion of insurrection, the pose of the personal inferno burning in the soul, these may set the world on fire during the hours in which a person’s dreams should be fuelled with love, but it is in daylight when the realm of dissatisfaction, when the angry thoughts of horror first take root, and those Throbs, those whispers of panic and dread are tougher to ignore, they are incessant and beguiling, they are the sound of peace being driven to the tune of the awakening, delightful, outcome.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Thanks to the inclusion of the many various disguises and themes that social media takes on, what we once fought to keep hidden inside has become an overgrowth of sharing, our deepest thoughts, our reasoned concerns, the fantasies, the issues, the dogma we carry around has become a playground in which we seek out likes, confrontation and like-minded individuals to rally to our cause; what was once held so precious and away from prying eyes, has become in reality mysteries of ourselves let loose, naked and alone, it seems They’re Not Secrets Anymore.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It takes a certain kind of logic and courage to not feel crushed by the weight of the modern age, that the reality we fight is nothing more at times than a personification of the fantasy, of the fiction, others have written, and we somehow have been foolish enough to believe.
Another zombie knocked on the door
in the early evening October
glow supplied
by moonlight and red rouged faces,
dipping into their mother’s
make-up bag
and the drool of fake blood
that gets wiped on the ghost’s
off-white bedroom sheet
because the taste of chocolate
isn’t as nice when your plastic Dracula
chops get in the way
of chewing and smiling stuffed face
dripping…
…expectation;
zombie, ghost and ghoulie,
growling wolf, a mistaken ballerina
swearing and threatening robbery
with violence, as only
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Lisa Howard, Steve Huison, Suzette Ahmet, Matt Connor, Michael Hugo.
We are living in a time of farce, a period of political instability in which nobody understands the game anymore, and which is unravelling to the point of embarrassing absurdity; if it wasn’t so frightening, so tragic, and with the constant concern of extremist views being able to sit at the same table as common decency and compassion, then it would be funny.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You can cross yourself as many times as you wish, you can pray to the wind, seek solace in the heavens and speak in tongues to those you seek the warm embrace of protection from, but for all of that there must be an understanding that in a world that has descended into farce, where a President is anything but presidential and wise, where the will of the people is to commit themselves to absolute uncertainty, then perhaps there really are no Saints Among Us.
He went hunting for squirrels
on a cold October day.
I remember my time
in Pittsburgh being one
in which I sat playing cards
till four in the morning,
the fine whisky
slowly adding to the occasion
of friendship, far removed
from the man with the gun
in his hand
and hate seeping out of his porous heart.
The incline railway overlooking
all of creation, the once former
Steeler’s ground lost
to history it seemed,
but below, stewing in his bile soup