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Cary Balsano: Not Like Sheeran. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Always be ready to take a step out of your comfort zone, as an artist, as a listener, it is a sacred duty to your mind and your soul that what you enjoy and practise is only the surface level of your endeavour, you must in effect go punk to stride forward; and if nothing else it will concentrate your thoughts on seeing a larger, more detailed picture evolve before your eyes.

Jim Pearson: Your Stupid Life. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never think your life is dull, never allow the thought that your existence in this world means little, or next to nothing, to take hold…all it takes is a single spark in the most unique of organs on the planet to prove that your life means more than what you have been led to believe, or even that in which the inner voice will elaborately whisper about what you conceive to be is Your Stupid Life, but in which lays the falsehood of an identity not wanting to reached, the imposter syndrome to which a mind has achieved greatness.

Immaculate. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Emile Hirsch, Kate Bosworth, Ashley Greene, M. Emmett Walsh, Alex Sgambati, Oliver Moore, Tiffany Smith, Joel David Moore, Gianna Wichelow.

We all have our price, we all have that one figure in our minds in which a stranger could offer us the kind of escapist fantasy in which we come out on top; not quite a deal with the Devil, but a transaction with burdened peace, an arrangement that will test our nerve and the construct of what we perceive as reality.

Ghosts (US). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones, Richie Moriarty, Danielle Pinnock, Asher Goodman, Rebecca Wisocky, Sheila Carrasco, Devan Chandler Long, Román Zaragosa, Tristan D. Lalla, John Hartman, Arthur Holden, Nigel Downer, Stuart Fink, Betsy Sodaro, Mark Linn-Baker, Kathryn Greenwood, Christian Daoust, Cody Crain, Cat Lemieux, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Odessa A’zion.

It is a curious proposition that any show, especially comedy, that is a big hit in Britain, can face a clamour of public calls for it to be remade for the American television market.

Resident Alien. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds, Alice Wetterlund, Levi Fiehler, Judah Prehn, Elizabeth Bowen, Meredith Garretson, Gary Farmer, Diane Bang, Jenna Lamia, Kaylayla Raine, Gracelyn Awad Rinke, Alex Barima, Linda Hamilton, Mandell Maughan, Sarah Podemski, Deborah Finkel, Ben Cotton, Justin Rain, Trevor Carroll, Alvin Sanders, Terry O’ Quinn, Nathan Fillion, Nicola Correia-Damude, Michael Cassidy, Kesler Talbot, David Bianchi, Enver Gjokaj, Jan Boss, John Innes, Paul Piaskowski, Robert Moloney, Eleanor Walker, George Takei.

The Plague: Hope For The F.U.T.U.R.E. (2.0). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What was once a dream of shining spires, of mutual collaboration between countries, and a prospect of peace, learning, and undaunted exploration forged in the unfettered potential, has become a future that is uncertain, that is stranded somewhere between bleak and inaccessible, of opportunity dashed, and expectations lowered, slashed to the barest bone of life.

The Batman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, John Turturro, Andy Serkis, Peter Sarsgaard, Jayme Lawson, Gil Perez-Abraham, Peter McDonald, Con O’ Neill, Alex Ferns, Rupert Penry-Jones, Kosha Engler, Barry Keoghan, Sandra Dickinson.

Every generation has its Batman. Every generation around it could find fault with the portrayal, only as with the divisive nature of religion, there are too many gods in which to hoist your devotion and understanding too. Better it seems is to acknowledge that each interpretation is but a part of a whole, take what you want from it, leave good karma, and revel in perhaps one of graphic novel and comic history’s finest ever creations.

The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Chris Pratt, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Kevin Bacon, Sean Gunn, Karen Gillan, Michael Rooker, Bradley Cooper, Vin Disel, Maria Bakalova, Rhett Miller, Murray Hammond, Ken Bethea, Philip Peeples, Kyra Sedgwick, Si Chen, Don McLeod, Thomas McNamara, Daniel Bernhardt, Michelle Gunn, Flula Birg, Matthew Withers, Rusty Schwimmer, Helene D’ Auria, Tinashe Kajese, Barry Curtis, Rachel Luttrell, Giovannie Cruz, Stephen Blackehart, Sarah Alami, Terence Rosemore, Luke Klein.

Disenchanted. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Maya Rudolph, Gabriella Baldacchino, Rachel Duff, James Marsden, Idina Menzel, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jayma Mays, Kolton Stewart, Oscar Nuñez, Alan Tudyk, Griffin Newman, Brooke Josephson, Mila Jackson, Lara Jackson, Eimear Morrissey.

It is the way of the modern world; a studio realises they have a cinematic hit on their hands and quickly takes steps to rush out a sequel. A couple of quick years pass, and the movie is almost seamless, the succession soon passed down, and before you know it you have a franchise on your hands. It is understandable, and whilst commercial capitalism is unhealthy, it does allow the viewer to keep the story in their minds, to keep it fresh, and not allow the tale on screen to become stagnant.

Andor. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O’ Reilly, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Jacob James Beswick, Adria Arjona, Faye Marsey, Andy Sirkis, Varada Sethu, Elizabeth Dulau, Anton Lesser, Michael Jenn, Dave Chapman, Robert Emms, Kathryn Hunter, Joplin Sibtain, Bronte Carmichael, Alastair Mackenzie, Alex Ferns, Noof Ousellam, Wilf Scolding, Duncan Pow, Ben Bailey Smith, Lee Ross, Fiona Shaw, Abhin Galeya, Muhanned Bhaier, Ben Miles, Kingsley Amadi, Alex Lawther, Christopher Fairbank.