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Cel Damage HD, Game Review (PS4).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5 /10

Cel Damage HD is a car combat game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. Cel Damage was originally released two generations ago on such consoles as the PS2 and GameCube in 2001. Cel Damage HD is a HD remake of the original that brings the game up-to-date for the PS4, PS3 and Vita to appeal to the many gamers that still to this very day have fond memories of the original, but how does the HD remake stack up in comparison to the original release?

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(2850 words, 2 images, estimated 11:24 mins reading time)

Liverpool Pride 2014, Waterfront Stage.

claire simmo. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Claire Simmo at Liverpool Pride 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Rain has a habit of getting in the way of the most superb of days, like a badly bruised apple can spoil a bag of tempting fruit; it can annoy and ruin any specific moment in which fun and reflection is the order of the day, yet it couldn’t destroy the party that was Liverpool Pride 2014.

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(556 words, 2 images, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Fables: Legends in Exile. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is trouble in the land of make believe, the images of fables have made their way into the world of humanity and are living amongst us, living their lives, their dreams and facing their nightmares in a world that is every bit as fantastical as their own but with none of the happy endings…legends after all still need to breathe.

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(541 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

The University Of Liverpool’s Guild Of Students Building Returns With Grand Reopening.

For the past 18 months the University of Liverpool’s Guild building has lain seemingly asleep. Its shell under wraps in much the same way as the Everyman Theatre just a short walk down the road had been before its grand reopening earlier in the year. These two monuments to creativity and ingenuity, to freedom of expression and the desire for change, whether through anger or gentle reasoned discourse, share the same reasons for being, to protect, serve and nurture.

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(720 words, 2 images, estimated 2:53 mins reading time)

The Flash: Volume 2, Rogues Revolution. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Of all the heroes that you encounter when travelling through the world of D.C. Comics, it could be argued that Barry Allen, The Flash, is by the most accessible to both the relative new comer to the land where fiction meets graphic art and the long standing devotee of comic book/graphic novel publications to grace the pages in which the likes of Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman have gained the most adoration over the years.

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(588 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

The Mono LPs, Die A Little Death (Deluxe). E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For anybody who has indulged their music whims, the caprice of cerebral cornucopia that flows from the heart of The Mono LPs live set, the cry of where is a C.D. in which to revel alongside at home has been a vexing one. Thankfully, as with all things, time rewards the patient, it offers the chance to get deep down and logically dirty with a band who are one of the major reasons in which to play great quality music in the second decade of the 21st Century.

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(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Brian S Charity’s New Comedy Bobby & Twenk Comes To The Lanten Theatre.

From the strange and brilliant mind of Brian S Charity, a graduate of the Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers’ Programme, comes a delightfully daft romp through the world of television and beyond, performed by some of the region’s best new comedy talent.

Bobby & Twenk, they’re detectives. Think Cagney and Lacey on very strong drugs. A child has run away. ‘The Case of the Runaway Child’—that’s what everyone’s calling it. With their careers and even their friendship on the line, can Bobby and Twenk find him before it’s too late—or at least before the end of the series?

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(167 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)

Bouncers, Theatre Review. The Royal Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paul Broughton, Danny O’ Brien, Louis Emerick, Michael Starke.

The 1980s nightclub, the big night out, big hair, cheaper beer, even cheaper aftershave and perfume sprayed on as liberally as showering underneath Victoria Falls for five days and then taking a dip in a swimming pool to get that real deep down scent. This was the time, depending on where you were living and your circumstances dictated in which Saturday night was the highlight of the week, the chance to meet the girl of your dreams, the man of your nightmares and all washed down with enough alcohol to drown an angel on a week-long bender on a Spanish holiday, all you had to do was get past the Bouncers on the door.

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(543 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Utopia: Series Two, Episode Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Geraldine James, Fiona O’ Shaughnessy, Neil Maskell, Adel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Alexandra Roach, Nathan Stewart-Jarratt, Oliver Woollford, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Michael Maloney, Ian McDiarmid, Paul Ready, Ruth Gemmel, Sacha Dhawan, Martin McDougal, Emilia Jones, Sofe Dirisu, Richard Laing.

Could you kill? Could you really think about pulling a trigger and blowing somebody’s head apart from their soul? The world is on the edge of extinction and somebody has a plan in which to save Humanity as a species, many billions will fade out of existence eventually but they will have at least lived, unlike the possible tens of thousands who are to become carriers of disease in which, to some is actually a better prospect than what could come.

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

Hercules, Film Review. Plaza Community Cinema, Crosby.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Aksel Hennie, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Reece Ritchie, Joseph Fiennes, Tobias Santelmann, Peter Mullan, Rebecca Ferguson, Issac Andrews, Joe Anderson, Stephen Peacocke, Nicholas Moss.

Where does the hero end and the legend, the myth start? Every hero after all needs a writer in which to make them seem invincible, powerful, noteworthy and compassionate to his enemies. In the modern era, every hero has his moment of downfall, his time in which he must wander into the desert of obscurity and take stock of his actions before coming back stronger than ever. In times of Greek and Roman legend, of the classical age, the Gods ruled all and a Demi-God had no such qualms about living up to anything but his name. Such is tale of Hercules and his 12 labours.

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(582 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)