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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.

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

Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jeon Jong-Seo, Kate Hudson, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein, Evan Whitten, Lauren Bowles, Serene Lee, Cory Roberts, Kyler Porche, Michael Carollo, Anthony Reynolds, Jennifer Vo, Altonio Jackson, Donna Duplantier, Rosha Washington, Joshua Shane Brooks, Tiffany Black, Amy Le, Mia Tillman, Renell Gibbs, Sylvia Grace Crim, Janes W. Evermore, Colby Boothman, Kent Shocknek, Ritchie Montgomery.

Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon. Film Review. full post

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

The Great (Series Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Sacha Dhawan, Gwilym Lee, Adam Godley, Douglas Hodge, Belinda Bromilow, Ramon Tikaram, Gillian Anderson, Bayo Gbadamosi, Florence Keith-Roach, Charity Wakefield, Danusia Samal, Claira Watson Parr, Tristan Bent, Jane Mahady, Julian Barratt, Alistair Green, Timoth Walker, Louis Hynes, Ali Ariaie, Eloise Webb, Dina Al Salih, Anthony Welsh, Keon Martial-Phillip, Freddie Fox, Grace Molony, Blake Harrison, Jason Issacs, Dean Nolan.

The Great (Series Two). Television Review. full post

(562 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Unbound: Doctor of War 2: Destiny. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Colin Baker, Geoffrey Beevers, Nicholas Briggs, Terry Molloy, Jason Forbes, Philip Hurd-Wood, Louise Jameson, Akshay Khanna, Lara Lemon, Nichola McAuliffe, Deeivya Meir, Sadie Miller, Remmie Milner, Christopher Naylor, Justin Salinger, Anna Savva, Alisdair Simpson.

Eventually the path that should have been taken will reveal itself once more, another chance, another shot of redemption, for Destiny in the hands of the deserving is seldom a one-off affair, for the responsibility of the name is what providence and fate hold dear, a tethered connection, substantial, unreserved, unbound by the road less travelled; for a hero and a good person will always find the right path in the end.

Doctor Who: Unbound: Doctor of War 2: Destiny. Audio Drama Review. full post

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

Inside Man. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Tennant, Stanley Tucci, Dolly Wells, Lyndsey Marshal, Lydia West, Kate Dickie, Eke Chukwu, Boo Golding, Louis Oliver, Atkins Estimond, Dylan Baker, Tilly Vosburgh, Simon Delaney, July Namir, Mark Quartley, Cokey Falkow, Victoria Willing, Harry Cadby, Reynah Rita, Tim Berrington, Charlie Bentley, Malek Aloni, Lee Byford, Suzanne Ahmet, Amie Buhari, Sharon Sze, Aaliya James.

Inside Man. Television Review. full post

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

Radical Revival Of Comedy, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Comes To The Liverpool Playhouse This Month.

A radical revival of Oscar Wilde’s comedy The Importance of Being Earnest visits the LiverpoolPlayhouse from Tuesday 11th to Saturday 15th October. Created by English Touring Theatre, Director Denzel Westley-Sanderson busts the myth that Black history started with migrants coming down the Windrush’s gangplank, and instead employs wealthy Black Victorians to reinvent this eternally witty study of manners and the corrosive nature of rigid societal conventions.

Winner of the 2021 RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award, Denzel breaths fresh energy into this tale of dysfunctional families, class, gender, and sexuality.

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(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Scream (2022). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Melissa Barrera, Jack Quaid, Mikey Madison, Jenny Ortega, Dylan Minnette, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Sonia Ammar, Marley Shelton, Skeet Ulrich, Kyle Gallner, Chester Tam, Reggie Conquest, Heather Matarazzo, Brooke Barnhill, Stephen West-Rogers, Milli M, Roger Jackson.

It is only when you re-immerse yourself back into the realm of previous encounters that you witness just how much of it was for your benefit, the sense that the scene before you taking place was possibly scripted, that you were fooled into believing one thing, when in actual fact the opposite was the true course of action taken; it is enough to make you scream time after time, but one that is of anguished understanding rather than let down annoyance.

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(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Monstrous. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christina Ricci, Santino Barnard, Don Baldaramos, Colleen Camp, Lew Temple, Carol Anne Watts, Jennifer Novak Chun, Peter Hodge, Nick Vallelonga, Sally Elbert, Lola Grace, Rachael Edlow, Darin Cooper, Aimey Beer, Neraida Bega, Philip V. Bruenn, Matt Lovell, Nancy O’ Fallon, Chris Mullinax, Anjoum Agrama, Olivia Reid, Kathy Sue Holtorf.

The very act of being part of, or witnessing, a traumatic event is such that for those who live through it, the mind will do whatever it can to protect them from the images, the constant emotional distress that will creep into their lives when they least expect it, or the triggers that will accumulate and cause the brain to fracture, to cause a schism that will separate truth from fiction.

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

Slipknot: The End, So Far. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you don’t know what you’re expecting by now, then you must be living in a circus, for how else do you explain the sense of colour, the wonderful madness, the sheer scope of the metaphorical three ringed extravaganza that accompanies the drama of Slipknot. For what you should be expecting is the unexpected, the inquisition of the unforeseen, the anticipation of the startling effect, and who better to grab your attention that one of the most dynamic and self-motivated bands of the last two decades, than that of Slipknot.

Slipknot: The End, So Far. Album Review. full post

(389 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Tankard: Pavlov’s Dawgs. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are all summoned by the sound of someone else’s bell, some will become accustomed to the conditioning that they slaver and slave to produce the required response, others will timidly follow suit in the hope they are seen to be seen, their entire existence it seems is to bow and beg to the hand that feeds; and then there are those who hear the bell, understand that it is time to shine, but will go out of their way to fight for what is right, to bite the hand that feeds if needs be, if it means others are set free to be exactly who they want to be.

Tankard: Pavlov’s Dawgs. Album Review. full post

(389 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)