Category Archives: TV

Clarice. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Rebecca Brands, Michael Culditz, Lucca De Oliveira, Nick Sandow, Devyn A. Tyler, Kal Penn, Jayne Atkinson, Maya McNair, Marnee Carpenter, Raoul Bhaneja, Derek Moran, Caitlin Robson, Douglas Smith, David Hewlett, K.C. Collins, Brian Bisson, Grace Lynn Kung, Caitlin Stryker, Simon Northwood, Will Conlon, Jen Richards.

The story is never complete.

What was once considered enough to wet the lips and stoke the appetite of the film lover and television watcher, has in recent years become a slot filler. The story has taken on a different direction with television leading the way, expanding a universe that perhaps had enough tension and pace in them to not require another tale being weaved into the original text.

Clarice. Television Review. full post

(678 words, estimated 2:43 mins reading time)

The Witchfinder. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Tim Key, Daisy May Cooper, Jessica Hynes, Daniel Rigby, Tuwaine Barrett, Michael Culkin, Dan Renton Skinner, Rosie Cavaliero, Dan Mersh, Vincent Franklin, Joplin Sibtain, Sharlene Whyte, Karl Theobald, Katy Wix, Julian Barratt, Reece Shearsmith, Justin Edwards, Ricky Tomlinson, Cariad Lloyd, Angus Wright.

If comedy is subjective and can rise and fall with whatever the fashion of the day dictates then at some point, we must expect almost every historical scenario to be discussed as potential for a sitcom, or at the least as backdrop and discussion in which to drive the genre forwards.

The Witchfinder. Television Review. full post

(573 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Pam And Tommy. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lily James. Sebastian Stan, Seth Rogan, Nick Offerman, Pepi Sonuga, Taylor Schilling, Fred Hechinger, Paul Ben-Victor, Mozhan Marnò, Adam Ray, Iker Amaya, Chris Mann, Andrew Dice Clay, Paul Guzman, Don Harvey, Larry Brown, Mike Seely.

There is no greater story of fiction than that which is housed in fact.

Pam And Tommy. Television Review. full post

(620 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

A Discovery Of Witches. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Alex Kingston, Gregg Chilingirian, Trevor Eve, Owen Teale, Malin Buska, Edward Blumel, Aiysha Hart, Valarie Pettiford, Lindsay Duncan, Aisling Loftus, Tanya Moodie, Adelle Leonce, Sorcha Cusack, Steven Cree, Daniel Ezra, Jacob Ifan, Greg McHugh.

A trilogy is only as good as its final part. If you can stomach that declaration then understanding is part of your deal, for a trilogy means nothing if the ending is unbelievable, if it goes against everything that has been set up in good faith before, then the whole structure falls apart, it becomes worthless, the one willing to sit through an entire season, take pleasure in the excitement of the ending, might arguably feel cheated, will feel the waves of cynical impression forced upon their time.

A Discovery Of Witches. Series Three. Television Review. full post

(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Screw. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Nina Sosanya, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Laura Checkley, Faraz Ayub, Stephen Wright, Ron Donachie, Jake Davies, Ben Tavassoli, Nicholas Lumley, Jordan Myrie, Chicho Tche, James Foster, Karen Gill, Bill Blackwood, Mark Newsome, Jack Bardoe, Nathan Vaughn Harris, Riley Carter Millington, Marianne McIvor, Mark Arden, Lawrence Walker, Matthew Stirling, Simon Donaldson, Alistair Lock, Yusef Chaudhri, Jaden Baker, Denzil Baidoo, Stephen Clyde, Jordan Howat, Sagar Arya, Christopher Fulford.

Screw. Television Review. full post

(595 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

The Book Of Boba Fett. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Temeura Morrison, Ming-Na Wen, Pedro Pascal, Matt Berry, David Pasquesi, Carey Jones, Jennifer Beals, Sophie Thatcher, Jordan Bolger, Robert Rodriguez, Joanna Bennett, Barry Lowin, Frank Trigg, Collin Hayes, Timothy Olyphant, Danny Trejo, Rosario Dawson.

The Western genre doesn’t die, it just finds new ways to menace the airwaves and pump new belief into what was a form of storytelling that had its supposed day by the time that science fiction became big business.

The Book Of Boba Fett. Television Review. full post

(609 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

The Responder. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Martin Freeman, MyAnna Buring, Adelayo Adedayo, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Mark Womack, Josh Finan, Emily Fairn, Philip Shaun McGuinness, Warren Brown, Ian Hart, Faye McKeever, Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Christine Tremarco, David Loy, Rob Pomfret, Jude Cooper-Kelly, Kerrie Hayes, Dave Hart, Lois Cringle, James Nelson-Joyce, David Bradley, Karl Collins, Philip Whitchurch, Amaka Okafor, Marji Campi, Rita Tushingham, Maud Druine, Michael Starke, Jake Abraham, Paul Campion, Christian Waite, Victor McGuire, Kieran Urquhart, Sylvie Gatrill, Matthew Cottle, Dave Hill, Roy Brandon, Harry Burke, Pat Winker.

The Responder. Television Review. full post

(764 words, estimated 3:03 mins reading time)

The Tourist. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Bruce-Franklin, Damon Herriman, Alex Dimitriades, Olafur Darri Ólafsson, Kamil Ellis, Damien Strouthos, Greg Larson, Victoria Haralabidou, Geneviève Lemon, Alex Andreas, Jeanette Cronin, David Collins, Rhonda Doyle, Simon Gligora, Ansuya Nathan, Stephen Hunter, Renee Lim, Lasarus Ratuere, Mark Fantasia, Kyle Robertson, Willian Rodrigues, Jasper Bagg, Brett Blake, Maria Mercedes, Natasha Wanganeen.

The Tourist. Television Review. full post

(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Around The World In 80 Days. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, Leonie Benesch, Jason Watkins, Peter Sullivan, Leon Clingman, Anthony Flanagan, David Sherwood, Reza Diako, Jeff Rawle, Richard Wilson, Nicholas Ellenbogen, Lindsay Duncan, Victoria Smurfit, Dolly Wells, Gary Beadle, Charlie Hamblett, Patrick Kennedy, Faical Elkihel.

H G Wells and Jules Verne, two men for whom readers can bestow the title of the Godfather of Science Fiction, perhaps can arguably claim from the beyond that their work has not had the best of treatments when it comes to large screen or television adaptations. It is almost as if the text is too outlandish, too peculiar to capture the essence of their finest works, leaving the fan to console themselves with the imagination and the novels at their disposal.

Around The World In 80 Days. Television Review. full post

(492 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

A Discovery Of Witches: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Trevor Eve, Owen Teale, Lindsay Duncan, Alex Kingston, Edward Bluemel, Sheila Hancock, Tom Hughes, Adrian Rawlins, James Purefoy, Gregg Chilingirian, Malin Buska, Aiysha Hart, Valerie Pettiford, Aisling Loftus, Tanya Moodie, Adelle Leonce, Sorcha Cusack, Steven Cree, Daniel Ezra, Jacob Ifan, Sophia Myles, Greg McHugh, Leo Ashizawa, Milo Twomey, Trystan Gravelle, Holly Aird, David Newman, Peter McDonald, Amanda Hale, Anton Lesser, Straun Rodger, 

A Discovery Of Witches: Series Two. Television Review. full post

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