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Doctor Who. Once And Future: The Martian Invasion Of Planetoid 50. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Tennant, Michelle Gomez, Neve McIntosh, Dan Starkey, Catrin Stewart, Hannah Genesius, Stephen Noonan, Tim Treloar.

The Doctor’s lives are being extinguished too fast, the degeneration effect that is afflicting him is seeing the many faces of the time traveller rapidly thrown out of time and out of place. Old friends are unknown, and new ones forged in an order that would threaten the sanity of anyone, but to whom the one who cannot but help the universe when it faces trouble, it is one that could see the end of all that history and what is to come destroyed forever.

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(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Cracking. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Shôn Dale-Jones.

George Orwell got it wrong.

We are not afraid, cowering in our rooms writing in subversive diaries and avoiding confrontation with our neighbours, we have become experts at exposing the very potential that makes us spies for the state, unpaid, unregulated emissaries willing to be praised for bringing to light the slightest misdemeanour in which our friends can suffer the brutality and want of the baying righteous mob.

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(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Milady. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anjana Vasan, Luke Nunn, Sam Troughton, Carl Prekopp, Elizabeth Counsell, Rhiannon Neads, Don Gilet, Shaun Mason, Gerard McDermott, Joe Kloska, Gavi Singh Chera, Ian Dunnett Jnr, Ryan Whittle.

When we think of literature’s greatest female characters, we could possibly be forgiven for ignoring, or passing by, the marvellous Milady de Winter.

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

A Haunting In Venice. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Kelly Reilly, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Riccardo Scamarcio, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Amir El-Masry, Ferando Piloni, Lorenzo Acquaviva, David Menkin, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Rowen Robinson, Emma Laird, Vanessa Ifediora, Kyle Allen, Ali Khan, Esther Rae Tillotson, Winnie Soldi.

Agatha Christie is the queen of crime, but even those of literary royal blood must admit that there is a period of time in their career that just doesn’t align itself to any other; and the longer the reign, the more likely it is to be at the final curtain that the illumination starts to fade; literature aping real life as the spell can be, hopefully not broken, but perhaps witnessed for what it is; a last hurrah of a genius mind.

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(549 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Screw. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Nina Sosanya, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Laura Checkley, Faraz Ayub, Stephen Wright, Ron Donachie, Ben Tavassoli, Lee Ingleby, David Judge, Barnaby Kay, Nicholas Lumley, Chicho Tche, James Foster, Bill Blackwood, Mark Newsome, Nathan Vaughan Harris, Riley Carter Millington, Leo Gregory.

The representation of the British penal policy can be traced through almost every genre and system of delivery known to media as one of progression and brutal truth.

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(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Knock At The Cabin. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Grint, Abby Quinn, Kristen Cui, McKenna Kerrigan, Ian Merrill Peakes, Denise Nakano, Rose Luardo, Billy Vargus, Satomi Hofmann, Kevin Leung, Lee Avant, Odera Adimorah, Kat Murphy, Kittson O’Neill, Lya Yanne, M. Night Shyamalan, Clare Louise Frost, Hanna Gaffney, Monica Fleurette, Saria Chen.

M Night Shyamalan’s career has been one of extraordinary highs, and even when the film he is connected with has only found an average basis with the crowds, it seems to be one that still finds a way to resonate with the unnerving and the memory of what can leave the audience and watcher alike with a trepidation of the twist that comes in the final moment.

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(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Robin Trower: Joyful Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When titans combine, expect earthquakes and seismic activity that turns heads, allows the heart to swell, the mind to expand and feel the appreciation of different generations digging the cause of the art and which can take place as the gods approve as they dance and bless the mood under a Joyful Sky.

To bring together Robin Trower and Sari Schorr is a match suggested in the heavens and created with a sense of unrelenting beauty here on Earth, and the result is an album in which elevates the emotions of the Blues to a place where this unknown feels as though it was always going to be; the kismet, the fate, is a bliss of powers based in trust, commenced in belief, and delivered with resonating thrust

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(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Annika. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Nicola Walker, Jamie Sives, Katie Leung, Silvie Furneaux, Ukweli Roach, Katie Dickie, Paul McGann, Varada Sethu, Taylor Goodwin, Sven Henriksen, Rebecca Root.

The art of the aside in theatre is a tribute to the writer’s immense skill to break the fourth wall in such a way that the silence on stage is filled with a cacophony of stunned appreciation. It is not so much the secret being revealed or the information shared for the audience’s elucidation, but for the truth that dare not be spoken to those who share the scene; and when this ability is taken to its next logical step on television, it highlights the weight of the unvarnished conscious at play; unhindered by the crowded thoughts of others who will only derail the investigation of the self-analysis.

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(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Scream VI. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Courtey Cox, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Hayden Panettiere, Mason Gooding, Roger Jackson, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Champion, Josh Segarra, Liana Liberato, Devyn Nekoda, Skeet Ulrich, Tony Revolori, Samara Weaving.

Just when you think that the Scream franchise cannot go any bigger, cannot pull you in anymore, Scream VI comes along and blows your mind.

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(416 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Dom Martin: Buried In The Hail. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Hell is a good starting place for the righteous to start a revolution, but as the infernal pace freezes over and the snowball’s chance and the possibility of being Buried In The Hail proves the downfall of the devils and gods, so the main believers are afforded the time to state their case and show Hell the heaven that awaits.

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(367 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)