Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Kiera Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Loreece Harrison, Suki Waterhouse, Clara Rosager, Lesley Manville, Eileen O’Higgins, Laural Lefkow, Amanda Lawrence, Samuel Blenkin, Nicholas Nunn, Phyllis Logan, Daniel Tiplady, Kajsa Mohammar, John Heffernan, Miles Jupp.
Liverpool Sound and Vison Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amir Wilson, Andrew Scott, Kit Connor, Ariyon Bakare, Will Keen, Ruta Gedmintas, Jade Anouka, Sean Gilder, Simone Kirby, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Terence Stamp, Joe Tandberg, Scope Dirisu, Sophie Okenedo, Lindsay Duncan, Jane How, Brian Protheroe, Angus Wright, James McAvoy.
If you are going to be distracted from the on-going torture to which nature and time have placed humanity in 2020, then you should find solace in the fantasy epics being produced; some against some of the most unforeseen pressures to have ever been witnessed by the small screen.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lolly Adefope, Matthew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond, Katy Wix, Sutara Gayle, Leon Herbert, Samantha Pearl, Timmika Ramsey.
There is a train of thought that the Christmas special of any comedy is meant to be one that goes even further to provide the laughter that we need to put us in the festive mood; like a drug it is there to warp our perception of what the season is actually for, that to be jolly and full of happiness that it makes the year’s end a giddy affair, one of unashamed and continuous enjoyment, that makes the dark evenings one of absolute light.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields, Charlie Russell, Dave Hearn, Bryony Corrigan, Nancy Zamit, Greg Tannahill, Chris Leask.
In extraordinary times we are shown the way forward, or at least the way to continue what we do best with alterations to the way we produce it.
One of the television comedy hits of 2020 has surely to be the team behind The Goes Wrong Show, a team honed by theatre, and offered to a larger audience in the same time-led fashion that saw some of the greatest stars of vaudeville become legends of early cinema, and to whom the slapstick mayhem is as every bit as demanding and superbly presented as anything you would want to watch today.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: David Mitchell, Gemma Whelan.
Satire begs no mercy, and when it is aimed quite rightly at those to whom are pompous enough to believe they are untouchable, then the joke is made sweet, it pricks the conscious and deflates the ego to the point where rarely does the subject recover from the blow inflicted.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, David Harewood, Calista Flockhart, Laura Benanti, Dean Cain, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Peter Facinelli, Brit Morgan, Glenn Morshower, Grant Gustin, Emma Caulfield, Italia Ricci, Helen Slater.
Whilst Marvel has done a sterling job in promoting the female superheroes of its comic book archive, it perhaps has not done quite enough to capture the same feeling of warmth and inclusion generated by the television shows that house the most valued possessions of it main rival, D.C. Comics.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Tom Payne, Michael Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Halston Sage, Aurora Pettineau, Frank Harts, Keiko Agena, Bellamy Young, Esau Pritchett, Kasian Wilson, Molly Griggs, Anna Eilinsfeld, Charlayne Woodard, Giuseppe Ardizzone, Dermot Mulroney.
The life of the murderer has always intrigued the armchair detective to the point where it can blind them to a truth when the presence of a serial killer becomes aware to them. There is after all a fundamental difference between a one off taking of life to that of wilfully continuing the senseless slaughter of people, and whilst murder should never be condoned, never be seen as anything abhorrent, the armchair detective and the scandal magazine readers almost salivate over every detail of the serial killer’s purpose and belief, forgetting that underneath it all, are the victims, the stories behind the death.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Gtretchen Mol, Greta Lee, Gil Bellows, Colleen Camp, Donna Dixon, Jordan Peele, George Takei, Karly Warkentin, Eric Halliburton, Tara Pratt, Johannah Newmarch, Emmett Lee Stang, Emilie Taylor, Connor Sage, Charlotte Kavanagh, Shevi Ryane, Oz Perkins, Kirk Thomas, David Coakley.
We have all said it, all perhaps thought it at some point or another, and some more than others, a throwaway line in which we enslave ourselves to consumerism, in which we slowly erode the soul and fill our homes with the useless and the impractical, “If I can buy that my life will be complete, if I possess that which is on offer, I will be happy“.
Liverpool sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Jessica Brown Findlay, Harry Lloyd, Nina Sosanya, Joseph Morgan, Kylie Bunbury, Sen Mitsuii, Hannah John-Kamen, Sophie McIntosh, Matthew Aubrey, Ed Stoppard, Kate Fleetwood, Stuart Walker, Ann Akin, Sophia Naziris, Sally Kennington, Demi Moore, Naomi Yang, Lara Peake, Ian Whyte, Rich Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Topher Grace, Kylie Bunbury, Jordan Peele, Logan McInnes, Bruno Rudolf, Kelly Ann Woods, Kam Kozak, Jina Anika, Mark Chavez, Marc Williams, Britney Mocca, Leo Chiang.
There is surely no denying that Groundhog Day is one of the classic American comedies of the last 40 years, not only does it see Bill Murray at his best, a tall feat when you consider just how influential he has been throughout his entire career, but the premise of the film is charming, beguiling and one that captures the idea of persistence and change right down to its very core.