Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9 out of 10
Life is Strange: Episode 1 – Chrysalis is a third-person episodic adventure game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Life is Strange is developed by Dontnod Entertainment who are known for creating games with powerful and dependable female characters that grow and become stronger through the duration of the game, which had been previously released as Remember Me in 2013.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Pauline Fleming, Stephen Fletcher, Harry Katsari, Michael Ledwich, John McArdle, Angela Simms, Jack Taylor-Wood.
Everybody has surely dreamed of running away from it all, to hide away from all known responsibilities and start afresh somewhere new, somewhere where they can never be found and where the grass can grow under their feet in perfect isolation. It either takes a lot of money, a lot of guts or the sheer force of will to make it happen…or you can buy a canoe, fake your own death and end up in a force ten hurricane with a picture of former Cuban President Fidel Castro looking at you with accusing stares and your children disowning you. Such is life on the open waves when you start Canoeing for Beginners.
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The only true surprise awaiting anyone who makes the right choice in spending that week’s hard earned money on Steve Rothery’s debut solo album, The Ghosts of Pripyat, is that it has taken so long for the celebrated and revered guitarist to place his own stock out before his own special audience.
If the thought of the deceitful behaviour resulting in the
unkindness of Ravens, who cackle
in delight as they plot and scheme and smirk during the sentimental speech
at the wake of a buzzard and the hippopotamus gloating as his bloated
views on such things are taken with a pinch of salt,
then be more concerned for the actions of another,
for the arrogance of Seagulls is absolute.
They strut round with conceit and an air of self importance
that belies their place in society. They may not be bottom
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman, Tamzin Malleson, Andrew Lee Potts, Jack Shepherd, Joe Absolom, Amanda Burton, Raj Awasti, Fraser Ayres, Pamela Betsy Cooper, Ashley Darwood, Noma Dumezweni, Anthony Farrelly, Deborah Findlay, Merelina Kendall, Stephanie Leonidas, Alan McKenna, John Neville, Justin Salinger.
The art of deception and the sleight of hand, the act of illusion and slight bemusement needs both to succeed; and so too does a good old fashioned Detective/murder programme.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Hayley Riley, Louise Evans.
Life is so much more than what the gossips, those that peddle the rumour mill around you and the idle talk of the garden fence brigade; however when your life starts to go down a certain path, when the fullness of your own memories start to dissipate into thin air, when the edges of the snapshot start to fade and lose definition, are you no more than the sum of the declining anecdote relied with glee by your neighbours?
My name is of no importance
as I sit here quietly breathing in dust from the beaten up
old chair you provided me with.
My clothes as crumpled as my un-digestable heart
in this crowded room, where you sit
comfortably and with an air of seething malice wait
for me
to admit that
all you need to know is that I am a poetry addict
and that it has been that way ever thus.
The intervention should be hailed a success
for I have gone at least a couple of hours since I
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In the spirit of George Harrison, all things must pass, eventually. For some it’s a relief, the death of a dystopian and despotic regime, ground to dust or wiped out by plague is a thought that a cheery liberal would welcome with huge applause and gladdened heart; a new release by a band who filled a lot of teenage hearts with inspired lyrics and power ballad like affection finding themselves at the crossroads of the much missed Mr. Harrison’s almost fatalistic scenario, it can be a daunting proposition.
…and Just by chance I looked up at the moon
and saw the false brightly lit orb shrouded by a perfect circle
where clouds had formed separating to make a giant’s eye.
Unblinking, all-knowing, understanding the darkest secrets
of the solitary magpie sheltering in the darkness of the church eaves
and its feathers ruffling, tearing at the bird-like sleep, dozing
dreaming of glittering bauble and fully formed salutes
from passing strangers.
The moon is but a mere child’s pebble thrown, ejected with violence
onto a dusty unused sandpit, the hollow crater surrounded
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Cast: David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Andrew Buchan, Jodie Whittaker, Charlotte Rampling, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Pauline Quirke, Arthur Darvill, Eve Myles, James D’Arcy, Meera Syal, Carolyn Pickles, Tanya Franks, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, William Andrews, Matthew Gravelle, Shaun Dooley, Joe Sims, Adam Wilson, Simone McAullay.
As is often pointed out in the national press via informed publications that deals with criminal statistics, offences can often be linked together, the perpetrator of one such misdeed is often responsible for others. Why should the town of Broadchurch, tearing itself apart at the seams with claim and counterclaim, be any different?