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The Patient. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Steve Carrell, Domhnall Gleeson, Linda Emond, Andrew Leeds, Laura Niemi, Alan Blumenfeld, Alex Rich, David Alan Grier.

The measure of our guilt is such that we no longer seek out absolution and forgiveness from a member of the clergy, we seek enlightenment to the course of our actions from someone who can glean through analysis and psychotherapy that our engagements are not our responsibility; the cop out of our times that leads to blaming others and leading to a discordant view of reality.

The Patient. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Asteroid City. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Maya Hawke, Rupert Friend, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Carell, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Liv Schreiber, Aristou Meehan, Ethan Josh Lee, Sophia Lillis, Matt Dillon, Tony Revolori, Bob Balaban, Fisher Stevens, Ella Faris, Gracie Faris, Willan Faris, Deanna Dunagan, Vandi Clark, Pedro Placer, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum, Rita Wilson.

Asteroid City. Film Review. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

John Jenkins: The Reason. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If something doesn’t fit, you make room it wherever you can; nothing should ever be discarded or found to be unwanted, the point of life is not minimalism, but to crowd every sector of your life and space of your being with memories and recollections, of memorials to those we have loved and sadly lost.

John Jenkins: The Reason. Single Review. full post

(384 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Leaves’ Eyes: Myths Of Fate. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The enduring mythologies of life are such that we sorely forget their traditional ways of capturing an audience at our peril; for there is more to be found within our realms than many give credit too, or even acknowledge. For the hearts that dare suggest nothing can come of legend, have not had their soul inflamed by the sound of the saga ringing in their ears and digging deep into their own D.N.A., for in the epic there is an abundance of life, and it springs eternally from the fountain of the symphonically powerful.

Leaves’ Eyes: Myths Of Fate. Album Review. full post

(341 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Paloma Faith: The Glorification Of Sadness. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The cathartic nature of art is such that in the worst moments of our life we can find something in the ether or a structure created by hands in tune with grief, melancholy, or even the desperation of objectionable misery, that will raise the spirit, give meaning to the time in such a way that it aids forgiveness of our own mistakes, as much as it furthers the embrace of clemency with those who sought to destroy us.

Paloma Faith: The Glorification Of Sadness. Album Review. full post

(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Steve Hackett: The Circus and The Nightwhale. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Fifty years ago the world awoke to the sound of what many describe as the greatest concept album of all time, at a stroke the ability to place an entire Progressive narrative down on a double album was presented in such a way that to this day The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway almost has a spell of mysticism surrounding it, an air of Progressive theology that has taken on its own place in time that few albums of its genre can match or emulate.

Steve Hackett: The Circus and The Nightwhale. Album Review. full post

(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

True Detective: Night Country. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Christopher Eccleston, John Hawkins, Dervla Kirwan, Anna Lambe, L’xeis Diane Benson, Aka Niviâna, Joel D. Montgrand, Owen McDonnell, Erling Eliasson.

Although it is unwritten, a good detective will know instinctively when the need to turn away from the letter of the law is good for the community, when the reveal of the truth will play into the hands of those with evil intent and not the victims who suffered under the yoke of oppression, be it corporate or personal.

True Detective: Night Country. Television Drama Review. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Buckingham Nicks: Alabama 1975 – Live At The Morgan Auditorium in Tuscaloosa. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Embrace it all, every crackle, pop, and effect, behold the fierce nature of the live recording when it hasn’t been polished to a studio standard, for being able to hear something from a period before your time is a gift of opportunity that requires acceptance, investigation, enjoyment.

Buckingham Nicks: Alabama 1975 – Live At The Morgan Auditorium in Tuscaloosa. Album Review. full post

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

Haunted Scouse. Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Helen Carter, Paul Duckworth, Lynn Francis, Julie Glover, Michael Starke.

We deal with grief in our own way, but we must allow humour to part of the therapy in taking us from a place of heartbreak to one where we can look back at the times before the moment and take solace in the joy what came before, the small things that make a smile and a laugh the most beautiful response in the world.

Haunted Scouse. Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Solar Eyes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Birmingham’s musical history is arguably only surpassed by the city on the Mersey, and for that its past must be respected, and that which comes from its future given a full hearing of possible appreciation.

In a part of the country that gave the world bands such as Magnum, Duran Duran, The Twang, Black Sabbath, ELO, and Esoteric, the ability to be different, to be directly involved with the pulse of the city and spread the message out beyond the river Rae and its vast network of canals, to strike a chord of your own is an act of powerful consideration; and in Solar Eyes and their self-titled debut album, the fluid and considerable vastness of the musical sense of self explodes with virtue and belief all over the aural networks and cognitive reasoning.

Solar Eyes. Album Review. full post

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