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Memory Loss

It’s curious that the one thing that age destroys is memory.

We can reminisce and regale our grandchildren to the point of delight

of delicious and noble deeds done but the temptation

to over embellish, or add a line in for cosmic effect then

perhaps awkwardly becomes the main focus of the story.

As we get older, instead of being sure of the whole story,

We begin to miss things out, they disappear from view, hidden,

shrouded by  Time and alienated by a sense of the perverse.

We no longer recognise what we have been,

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(242 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

Charlotte Pollard, The Shadow At The End Of The World. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: India Fisher, Jacqueline King, Abigail McKern, Nicola Weeks, Lucy May Barker, Nicholas Briggs, Michael Maloney, James Joyce.

Charlotte Pollard, adventuress, traveller in space and time and once close friend and confident of The Doctor, a woman born on the day that the S.S. Titanic sank and who, as history will have it, died on the Airship 101, a woman who it seems was born to be a magnet for trouble and exploits, especially when cornered at The Shadow at the End of the World.

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(554 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Day D: Tower Rush (PS Vita), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 9 out of 10

Day D: Tower Rush is a tower defence based strategy game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita. The task is to destroy waves of incoming pre-historic enemies before they are able to complete their journey to enter the time machine with the power of turrets and inventions at the player’s disposal across an entire campaign.

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(2567 words, estimated 10:16 mins reading time)

The Theory of Everything, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast:  Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Harry Lloyd, David Thewlis, Maxine Peake, Simon McBurney, Emily Watson, Guy Oliver-Watts, Lucy Chappell, Charlotte Hope, Abigail Cruttenden, Christian McKay, Adam Godley, Alice Orr-Ewing, Thomas Morrison, Michael Marcus, Nicola Sloane, Nicholas Gerard-Martin, Brett Brown, Anthony Skimshire, Eileen Davies, Simon Chandler, Georg Nikoloff, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry, Finlay Wright-Stephens, Gruffudd Glyn, Paul Longley, Enzo Cilenti.

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(692 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

Foyle’s War, High Castle. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Charlie Archer, Rupert Simonian, Nick Cornwall, John Waterhouse, Rupert Vansittart, Ellie Haddington, Tim McMullan, Daniel Weyman, Paul Barnhill, Jeremy Swift, Jamie Winstone, Vincenzo Nicoli, Nigel Lindsay, John Mahoney, Madeline Potter, George Lasha, Mark Chatterton, Hermoine Gulliford, Amanda Lawrence, Joseph Drake, Neil Fitzmaurice, Marianne Oldham, Pip Donaghy, Ollie Hancock, Joe Simpson, Ludger Pistor, Will Keen, Sean Cernow.

Christopher Foyle’s war is never ending and post war Britain must be thankful that there was at least one honest man around who was willing to go up against so called authority in which to get to the absolute truth.

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(575 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

The Art Of Meloncholia.

The art of melancholia should not be dismissed lightly,

nor the sculpture of passionate sentiment

in conveying a different message meaning not seen as unsightly

as one witnesses the beauty of honest lament.

 

To have the air of melancholia surround you,

might bring others down and cursing your name

but there is more honesty in a reflective sadness true

than in any false smile, revelling in sneering fame.

 

To go through life and not feel the hunger

of the soul as it bleeds from time to time,

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(135 words, estimated 32 secs reading time)

Birdman, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Andrea Risborough, Zach Galifianakis, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Shamos, Kenny Chin, Jamahl Garrison-Lowe, Katherine O’ Sullivan, Damian Young, Keenan Shimizu, Akiro Ito, Natalie Gold, Merritt Weaver, Michael Siberry, Clark Middleton, Amy Ryan, William Youmans, Paula Pell, David Fierro, Hudson Flynn,  Warren Kelly, Joel Marsh Garland.

Some films are just so perfect that the ideology behind them, the message they are meant to represent, doesn’t matter. What matters is the substance, the overall feel in which they leave the audience fulfilled and more content than being told they could eat whatever they wanted over the festive period, it wouldn’t show up as weight gained on the scales at home.

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(650 words, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

Nickelback, No Fixed Address. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For many a band, home is perhaps somewhere only where you dump your stuff and put a fresh change of clothes into a bag before heading off onto the road again. The road, whether it’s a journey from Hell on the M6, somewhere between Bicester and Scotland or one of those cross-country runs underneath the open skies of the North American highway, can be all consuming and in the end nowhere feels native, everywhere feels as though you could settle down and find love; it is in the end the sign of the murky waters that goes with having No Fixed Address.

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(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

You Put The Music In E.

You don’t need words to understand how I feel,

to know how engaged I consider to be involved

in the art of one sided conversation that you employ.

I take it all in and if I should desire I could shut my eyes

gently and let my ears take me to the paradise

you promise, the Heaven in which I desire and lust after

more and more each day.

 

Many I have loved, and I could recite their closing words to me

when they whisper down my ear with the subtly

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

Jack The Lad By David Orr.

Jack, the Lad

Every day Jackie’s alarm wakes him up to a randomly selected song from The Charlatans’ Wonderland album. Today it’s Judas and the scratchy synth-laden intro has sounded six or seven times before he gives acknowledgement to anything other than the snooze button. The last time he looked at the clock it was 5.41. Now it’s barely half 7. It’s been another predominantly sleepless night at The Playhouse on New Street.

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(3227 words, estimated 12:54 mins reading time)