Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Jonathon Carley, Troy Alexander, Adèle Anderson, Rose Basista, Ken Bones, Nicholas Briggs, Emma Campbell-Jones, Julian Forsyth, Sarah Moss, Hugh Ross, Homer Todiwala, David Warwick.
We look at war as either the outcome, or we pick and choose the moments that we believe are the key points of significance, of the importance of scale in determining the battlegrounds that held the key to victory, or to the bitterness of defeat.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Colin Baker, Tom Baker, Geoffrey Beevers, Sasha Behar, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nicholas Briggs, Nicola Bryant, Karen Bryson, Seán Carlsen, David Holt, Georgia Mackenzie, Sadie Miller, Christopher Naylor, Rebecca Wright, Rick Warden.
What If?, undoubtedly two of the greatest combined words in the history of language. Where would humanity be without the ability to question alternative history, of being able to conjecture the ways in which Time could be altered, changed, drastically distorted from the moment we understand. If Time and history can be transformed on the single decision taken, so then can we use our imaginations to foresee the outcome of other potential times when our own world’s future can hang in the balance.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: India Fisher, Paul McGann, Rakia Ayola, John Banks, Shiloh Coke, Mark Elstob, Chris Jarman, Lara Lemon, Michelle Livingstone, Yasmin Mwanza, Cyril Nri, Rhoda Ofori-Attah, Theo Solomon. Andrew James Spooner.
For the majority who don’t delve deep into the mythos and background of Doctor Who, the name Charley Pollard is possibly a whispered name only vaguely caught as reference when Paul McGann’s incarnation of the man in the blue box from Gallifrey lamented those he had lost along the way as he faced the unknown in a forced regeneration as the Time War raged, as the War Doctor waited in the shadows.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Oscar Tyndall, Gillian Kearney, Eithne Browne, Neil Caple, Liam Tobin, Paul Duckworth, Keddy Sutton, Nancie Thomas, Harley Harrison, Sonny Lackey.
The command of storytelling is one of humanities finest achievements, the insisting of developing the imagination enough to unleash a truth the individual, the ability to change someone’s mind with a single word, or to frame a narrative that has the ability to make someone get in touch with their emotions, to feel compassion where once stood silence and perhaps apathy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating ****
Cast: Jonathon Carley, Adèle Anderson, Ajjaz Awad, John Banks, Nicholas Briggs, Angela Bruce, Beth Chalmers, Nigel Fairs, Stephen Frost, Timothy Hofmeier, Janet Prince, Jessica Temple.
To be a survivor of war is a blessing and a curse, either way you are unscathed by its effect on your mind and soul, it is how you deal with the anger, loss, and the stripped of humanity feeling which shows how the desire for revenge, or the ability to forgive will shape the future you have been offered.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: David Tennant, Jane Slavin, Alex Kingston, Terry Malloy, Ajjaz Awad, Nicholas Briggs, Noma Dumezweni, Matthew Jacobs-Morgan, Joseph Millson, Paul Panting, Joe Simms.
A species, a race, dedicated only to the extermination of all others in the universe is terrifying enough a prospect to deal with, add in the one crucial factor that makes it chilling, that recalls all the despotic, the evil, the cruelty and obnoxious malevolence that can only be found in the megalomania and psychopathic behaviour of a mind filled with absolute hatred, and you are either face to face with the foul and wicked presence of the worst of humanity, or you have been captured by the Daleks, and their foul, depraved creator, Davros.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: David Tennant, Jane Slavin, Joe Sims, John Banks, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards, Avita Jay, Kevin McNally, Leighton Pugh, Blake Ritson, Nina Toussaint-White.
It is often a surprise that for all the talk of family in Doctor Who, the thought of blood relations meeting the Doctor in different incarnations has never been truly explored.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: David Tennant, Jane Slavin, Joe Sims, Juliet Aubrey, Nicholas Briggs, Maria Teresa Creasey, Mark Gatiss, Chris Jarman, Kevin McNally, Gemma Whelen.
Time has a habit of bringing us back to that place we think we have left behind forever.
The Doctor, especially in his tenth incarnation, has lived through the emotional turmoil of losing companions, his people, and at times, his own perspective on the Universe; pushed through time and sometimes not able to withstand the pressure facing him from all sides. He might win, he might save the day, but it feels like a loss, a devastating failure in which his actions to save Gallifrey in a previous life still echo around him like marbles in a tin can.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Jonathon Carley, Adele Anderson, Anna Andresen, Nicholas Briggs, John Dorney, Amy Downham, Helen Goldwyn, Chris Jarman, Marilyn Nnadebe, Veronica Roberts, Tracy Wiles, Kit Young.
We cannot judge the actions of the final act of a person’s life unless we truly understand what led them to the battle, the rage of conflict in the first place.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Jane Slavin, Joe Simms, Jez Felder, Anna Mitcham, Nicholas Briggs.
Every ending must have a beginning, and every person you have ever said goodbye to, at some point said hello for the first time, such is the issue with Time that sometimes it can feel as though these moments are the wrong way round, maybe even inside out, and our minds have to catch up, have to adapt, or we might find that Time will find a way to erase us from the future to come.