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Only Child: Looking Forward To Looking Back – A Decade Of Only Child. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Time is there to either be sacrificed upon the cross of our dreams or fears, or it is the guide in which we walk, unafraid of its own lengthy shadow, understanding of all it has seen, what it chooses to forget, what it decides needs to be remembered; what we do with that information is up to us, how we deal with a year, two, a decade of information, of good times, or reflection and possible answers is purely down to us.

Queensrÿche: Digital Noise Alliance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

No matter how much we may deny it, we are now in a new era, not so much A.D. but perhaps more P.P., Post Pandemic, the signs are there, the drama seems unending, and it is not all down to a disease that caught the world out, it is a reaction and reflection to the unknown, the sense that the analogue has run out of room, and the Digital Noise Alliance stands at the gates of what is now acceptable, and what has been left behind.

Beth Orton: Weather Alive. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

As the lyric suggests, the weather is a state of mind, it is part of the system that governs, that nature decrees. The weather is not fixed, it is fluid, ever changeable, ever possessed by the spirit of generosity and malevolence that mirrors that of the human being it follows…it could be argued that the question is not of the natural world but that it is the Weather Alive, that is sensitive and alert to the needs below on Earth, and whether we have pushed it to its extremes by not caring enough for its welfare.

Werewolf By Night. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Laura Donnelly, Gael García Bernal, Harriet Sansom Harris, Kirk R. Thatcher, Eugenie Bondurant, Leonardo Nam, Daniel J. Watts, Al Hamacher, Carey Jones, David Silverman, Rick D. Wasserman, Richard Dixon, Jeffrey Ford, Erik Beck.

It is not all light and distraction that Marvel has to offer, there is also the darkness, the sombre and the toned down demanding an equal billing with the often interpretated versions of heroic endeavour.

Munich Games. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Seyneb Saleh, Yousef ‘Joe’ Sweid, Sebastian Rudolph, Doval’e Glickman, Evgenia Dodina, Roger Azar, Igal Naor, Romi Aboulafia, Shadi Mar’i, Anna Skladchikova, Juliane Köhler, Omer Perelman Striks, Mehdi Meskar, Anton Spieker, David Zimmerschied, Johnny Arbid, Marius Ahrendt, Lisa Hofer, Shenja Lacher, Bernd Hölscher, Paul Wollin, Marko Copor, Matthias Reichwald, Lotta Jauch, Bozidar Kocevski, Mouataz Alshaltouh, Mazen Aljubbeh, Robert Maaser, Seumas F. Sargent, Kailas Mahadevan.

Superman & Lois. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, Alex Garfin, Erik Valdez, Inde Navarrette, Wolé Parks, Dylan Walsh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Taylor Buck, Sofia Hasmik, Ian Bohen, Adam Rayner, Mariana Klaveno, Jenna Dewan, Rye Kihlstedt, Joselyn Picard, Nathan Witle, Monique Phillips, Danny Wattley, Dee Jay Jackson, Samantha Di Francesco, Toby Hargrave, Cynthia Mendez, Stephanie Cho.

Rob Clarke & The Wooltones: Rubber Chicken B Sides. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is always gold to be found in the use and employment of the rubber chicken, and yet that reliable comedy prop has at its disposal the power to disarm and relax a situation, to ask the question in the mind of those on the receiving end, just how serious can the message be if they are prepared to make you laugh first.

David Neville King: Vegas. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The temptation of Las Vegas is such that it has inspired a multitude of songs, a myriad of films, and a plethora of dreams, who can blame a single person for understanding this peculiar American desire to get rich quick surrounded by the sense of multi-coloured excess and the sound of machine designed to send the emotions whirling.

Pink Floyd: Animals (2018 Remix). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is always life in a beast with pedigree, no matter its age, all that the one walking by its side needs to know is that it will grow and protect, that it will offer guidance, sympathy, and a sense of freedom throughout its existence.

Uncharted. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali, Tati Gabreille, Steven Waddington, Pingi Moli, Tiernan Jones, Rudy Pankow, Jesús Evita, Georgia Goodman, Joseph Balderrama, Manuel de Blas.

For many, film and video games are now interchangeable, one pushes the other onwards, they are the same behemoth just with different pasts driving them; and for others it is a tangled web, one designed for a generation that perhaps has not explored the rich history that has placed cinema at the head of entertaining and educating millions of people since it first gained reverence as the peak of the visual art form and remained so until its more agnostic sibling, television, stole its pace in the habits of billions.