Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is something so dreadfully wrong with the world that it is only after the fact that we collectively feel the shame that should be felt by those entrusted to keep us safe, to provide justice, to deliver on the way we all want to live, without harm. When we learn of a single human being’s treatment at the hand of the government machine, we begin to see past the lies told, the fabrications dealt out and the sense of discrimination faced.
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As introductions to a character go, the iconic French detective Maigret arguably could not have been delivered at a more timely moment, nor could Georges Simenon captured the essence of a decent man’s life when Europe was finding itself enveloped in the dark times to come, the shadow of one war had not truly been lifted, and the prospect of another, more deadly, more devastating than any other before it, loomed on the horizon.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Education is important, knowing your own mind and being driven to rebel against the system that only wants to tie you down to the mundane and dreary is imperative.
It can be argued that many of the finest creative minds that the world has produced has at some point defied the slog of the near industrial machine which is designed in part to generate more cogs, more constructed consumers and instead found ways to bring happiness into the lives of the general population. A song encouraging a heart to beat faster, a piece of art which brings sweat and fear to the brows of the so called elite of the world; anybody who can do this deserves to have a story told, the blueprint of their life brought to the attention of the autobiographical section of any bookshop.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is surely fair to say that there will never be another writer like Stephen King, a master of his genre in such a way that rivals Dickens, Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie or Jane Austen in their chosen avenues of exploring the desire and darkness within the human experience, a fair assumption that despite many suggesting he has lost his touch, or perhaps just simply been part of the everyday for far too long. It is more than likely that his performance as a writer, the stories crafted, still thrill millions around the world, the power of his imagination continues to hit heights that perhaps install just a twinge of envy in some, and downright rude resentment in others.
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The long association of intertwining Earth’s history and the fictional lives of the Doctor has always been a passion of many of the fans of the television series of Doctor Who. An abundance of rich and varied accounts, the grand moments, the seemingly small and possibly inconsequential, all are ripe for exploring, for adding the most important of human instincts and emotions to what the chronicles will teach us; to enthuse imagination to any possible recorded scene and to question the authority of those that wrote it.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
The world is full of evil men who grab the headlines and place terror into the hearts of those too young to understand the reasons why they have been chosen, a target for the sick, an objective for the gruesome, it is the actions of the tasteless and the humanly revolting. Yet, somehow we find ourselves in the nightmare they create, we wish to see order restored but we are fascinated, intrigued, by how their brain works, what makes a person do such depraved acts, the methods they employ and how the police become involved in Hunting A Predator.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
In the small corners of the society we live in, there are stories of the old ways that have persisted, overcoming the likes of religious dogma, the sense of so- called Christian integrity that have gained a foothold on the country’s psyche, the Calvinist ethic, the Methodist belief, the Catholic doctrine, all shrouded in the rituals and observance that allows in many ways the rampaging evil of Capitalism to stoke the furnaces and lay waste to millions of people’s souls every year.
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Our childhood memories are made of the real and the imagined and quite often the lines of both worlds are blurred, become merged with each other, what we believe we may have experienced, what we may have seen, is something we may be told later by well-meaning relatives, that didn’t happen, or imagination out-ran our senses. That the snarling Wolf we followed one day through a thick and unnerving forest, was in actual fact a small puppy caught in the brambles and small thicket that was on the other side of the fence, just a few feet from the bottom of the garden.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The future is a manner of all possibilities perhaps forgotten, the imaginations of some of the greatest minds in literature having spelled out utopia and dystopia in equal measure, the threat of alien incursion, of disease, of technology gone awry a finer spark on the human soul it seems than the chance of peace and harmony across the world and the Universe beyond. Utopia is a cradle in which boredom festers, the human mind finds ways to look upon this sanitised creation and knows that it is an unrealistic venture, better to try and create a space in the disarray and confusion, the one bright spot in a world of darkness; it is after all why films such as Blade Runner, The Terminator, 2001 A Space Odyssey and Alien sell more than the idea of overall tranquillity.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Love, it is the greatest thing, the poets and the pop stars agree on that at least, even if their view points on the rest of life and existence differ wildly. Love is like a beast, it is the slow caress by Time. It can hurt, confuse and exhilarate and almost never in equal terms, never as if the times or the beat of the heart were in synch; but then Seasons of Love rarely do come together with the idea of the ever-lasting, it is only in the anthology that we see the potential of the relationship, no matter the form, no matter the aspiration, all that matters is love.