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The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward. Audio Drama Podcast Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jana Carpenter, Barnaby Kay, Samuel Barnett, Mark Bazeley, Samantha Dakin, Phoebe Fox, Adam Godley, Susan Jameson, Nicola Walker.

Everybody can name some horror writers, even if the genre alludes them, or they shy away from the experience due to the fears that grip the imagination or the heart; the ordinary passerby can confidently place a name down in the column of the masters of the frightening mass and walk away knowing they have looked into the heart of darkness and seemed knowledgeable.

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(624 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

Only Child: Everything I Know. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The poet’s responsibility is to reveal the inner beauty in the uncomfortable feeling. Sadness and hurt are as vital as joy and celebration when creating a piece of art that digs deep into the heart, and even in a melancholy view can be uplifting and reverential, a pleasure of memory despite what was lost in the process.

Everything we know is down to the lessons that were given to us with a price, that of love, for in that love we know one day we will lose that special person, they will leave us; it is an inevitable as a poet’s lament or a musician’s exploration.

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(357 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Montao: What In The World. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Collaboration across genres can be seen as more than acceptance, it is a quality of endeavour that pushes not only boundaries but the mind as well, it makes the soul grow in ways that can only be expressed as nurturing, understanding, and creatively beautiful.

What In The World is apt phrase when we first hear the way that a relationship between two different styles can not only work, it can be enlightening, and that is exactly what the merging of music finds as the exciting track by Montao fills the air and we understand the fruit of endeavour and the brilliance of association.

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(276 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

Time: Series Two. Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey, Tamara Lawrence, Siobhan Finneran, Louise Lee, Alicia Ford, Lisa Millett, Nicholas Nunn, Sophie Willan, Julie Graham, Kayla Meikle, Matilda Firth, Brody Griffiths, Isaac Lancel-Watkinson, Terri Reddin, Karen Henthorn, Conor McCarry, Jackie Jones, Danielle Henry, James Corrigan, Alexandra Monaghan, Cindy Humphrey, Michelle Butterly, Maimuna Memon, Alicia Brockenbrow, Christopher Middleton, Dana Hagjoo, Louise Willoughby, Faye McKeever, Angela Wynter, Philip Hill-Pearson.

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(631 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Loki. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Owen Wilson, Jonathan Majors, Ke Huy Quan, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Eugene Cordero, Wunmi Mosaku, Tara Strong, Rafael Casal, Kate Dickie, Liz Carr.

To love reading graphic novels or comic books is now socially acceptable, a medium that even finds itself part of a university curriculum, part of cinematic history, and one that the vast majority celebrate being enamoured by the absolute sense of accomplishment of the films and the surprise of how well the television serials have captured the imagination of even the least dedicated of fans and brought cool to what was once derided by teachers and cliques as being a poor substitute of reading.

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

The Newsreader. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anna Torv, Sam Reid, Robert Taylor, William McInnes, Marg Downey, Stephen Peacocks, Michella Lim Davidson, Chum Ehelepola, Rory Fleck Byrne, Daniel Gillies, Philippa Northeast, Chai Hansen, Caroline Lees, Maria Angelico, John Leary, Jackson Tozer, Rhys Mitchell, Dan Spielman, Hunter Page-Lochard.

If everything in life is a political act, then we are in effect the news. We may be a bystander on the scene, but in effect our presence makes us a leading player in observance, and how re react to the narrative is how we are judged by those who sift through the pictures and present their evidence to the awaiting world via The Newsreader who is the most constant face on our television screens.

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(528 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Ghosts. Series Five. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lolly Adefope, Matthew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Ben Willbond, Yani Xander, Nathan Bryon, Geoffrey McGivern, Emma Sidi, Richard Durden, Peter Sandys-Clarke, Rufus Wright, Anna Crilly.

Endings must always be acknowledged for the emotions they unearth from within your soul.

We can sit back and cradle our heads in our hands and lament a passing, or we can smile at the thought of having had the fortune to be included in the moment, to share the time with what proves to be an inspirational piece of art and be part of something that caught our attention enough to have us wallow in its performance.

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(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Darrel Treece-Birch’s Atlantea: Choices. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Are we the parts that we chose to cultivate, the interests we refused to let go; or are we the result of determination that was passed down by the branches of our family tree that never had the chance or the choice to be realised in the past, and which only now are being asserted in our possible futures?

Choices they are not ours to make, despite the illusion of options and preference, in truth the determination of variety has been long selected before we arrived at the moment of truth, and it is moment few of us our willing to acknowledge, let alone discuss in conversation or admire in the world of art.

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(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Billy Joel: The Album Collection – Volume 2. Vinyl Boxset Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It feels as though maybe Time had stopped for a while, the clocks refusing to move forward in fear of losing a precious commodity, not wanting to reveal the final performances of arguably one of music’s most important figures of the latter half of the 20^th Century, and yet after two long years in which the world has found its way to damage itself, what holds dear is that art has the power to heal if people are willing to spend time in its company and do more than pay lip service to its message and its potency.

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

Richard Hawley: Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The world could be said to be too constricted by the narrowness in which we look for human artistic longevity. It is perhaps our own fault, for we have become enamoured with the world of the quick fix, the instant image, the need to swipe quickly if the image does not immediately grab our attention or find us simpering in the presence of what we consider momentary beauty.

We need to relearn the art of patience, to meld the now and the then together so we can see how the lines were created between the two moments of appreciation.

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