Category Archives: TV

Tin Star (Series One). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tim Roth, Genevieve O’ Reilly, Abigail Lawrie, Christina Hendricks, Oliver Coopersmith, Sarah Podemski, Ian Puleston-Davies, Leanne Best, Ryan Kennedy, Lynda Boyd, Christopher Heyerdahl, Jenessa Grant, Anamarie Marinca, Brenden Sunderland, John Lynch, Neve McIntosh.

The sins of the father always find a way to reveal themselves, and when they are ones that are committed with sanction from the state, then perhaps it is only right that they are exposed for what they are, the destroyer of lives and worlds.

Tin Star (Series One). Television Review. full post

(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

The Twilight Zone: A Human Face. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * *

Cast: Christopher Meloni, Jenna Elfman, Tavi Gevinson, Jordan Peele.

A Human Face is all that is needed to make a person change their mind and perspective on most things, it is that connection we have, the pinpoint of recognising the similarity rather than the blank face of obscurity and blind hatred which makes us creatures that can feel empathy and love, even for those who have left us, who may have hurt us with words, who belong to a nation that wishes to see us humbled, subjugated, destroyed.

The Twilight Zone: A Human Face. Television Review. full post

(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

The Twilight Zone: 8. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Joel McHale, Nadia Hilker, Michelle Ang, Tim Armstrong, Brandon Jay McLaren, Jordan Peele, Michael Adamthwaite, Mark Silverman, Amy Rotifer.

It is in the arrogance of our species that we believe we have the unalienable right to investigate all that we see, not out of curiosity and how we can live alongside all things natural and unexplained, but out of a wanton desire to manipulate, to influence, too confirm our mastery over all we survey.

The Twilight Zone: 8. Television Review. full post

(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Roadkill. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Hugh Laurie, Iain De Caestecker, Helen McCrory, Olivia Vinall, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Jennifer Hennessy, Anna Francolini, Tony Pitts, Danny Ashok, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Emma Cunliffe, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Millie Bradley, Katie Leung, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kate Lamb, Yolanda Kettle, Alice McMillan, Nicholas Rowe, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Caroline Lee-Jones, Pip Torrens, Natalie Drew, Saskia Reeves, Crystal Clarke, Sarah Greene, Adelle Leonce, Patricia Hodge, Tessa Banham, Guy Henry.

Roadkill. Television Review. full post

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

The Twilight Zone: Among The Untrodden. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Abbie Hern, Sophia Macy, Jordan Peele, Amanda Burke, Halle Galloway, Anisa Harris, Marci T. House, Esther Li, Graelle Owour.

What is great power without responsibility, a question posed by every comic and graphic novel artist when introducing a new superhero for the fans to wrap their imagination around.

The Twilight Zone: Among The Untrodden. Television Review. full post

(508 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

The Sister. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Russell Tovey, Bertie Carvel, Amrita Acharia, Nina Toussaint-White, Paul Bazley, Ewan Bailey, Colin Blyth, Tim Plester, Fluer Keith, Amanda Root, Chirague Amarchande, Simone Ashley.

There has always got to be a way to redefine the classic ghost story, it can’t all be bumps in the night, the unexplained sound that catches the ears, nor can it settle on finding the way to redeem a soul that has suffered torment and looking for vengeance; it must continue to evolve, to seek new ways of telling a story that is older than Shakespeare’s Hamlet, that has captivated cinema and television audiences and, aural story tellers, book readers, alike for what may seem an eternity

The Sister. Television Review. full post

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

The Twilight Zone: Ovation. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jurnee Smollett, Tawny Newsome, Sky Ferreira, Dan Martin, Paul F Tompkins, Thomas Lennon, Jordan Peele, Aliza Vellani, Murat Alvarez, Chris Webb, Silver Kim, Derek Morrison.

The whole world seems to crave fame, to either prove they existed at one point in time, or because they believe that their life will be better for it, the chance to be driven round in luxurious cars, eat at the best restaurants, have people at their command and carrying out their every whim and desire…fame is an evil in the guise of luminosity, in which celebrity is more lethal than any drug, which can be more destructive than any disease and the reason is because it is shallow, it feeds on vanity, sadness, the superficial and arrogance.

The Twilight Zone: Ovation. Television Review. full post

(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Ghosts: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Simon Farnaby, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond, Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lolly Adefope, Katy Wix, Yani Xander, Raj Ghatak, Ed Kear, Steve Oram, Cornelius Booth, Geoffrey McGivern, Anya McKenna-Bruce, Nathan Bryon, Isabella Laughland, Yaamin Chowdhury, Bridget Christie, Mario Demetriou, Holli Dempsey, Neil Edmond, Megan Grech, Shiraz Haq, Amber Jackson-Bond, Bronwyn James, Simon Kane, Aquib Khan.

Ghosts: Series Two. Television Review. full post

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

The Twilight Zone: The Who Of You. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ethan Embry, Daniel Sunjata, Mel Rodriguez, Billy Porter, Jay Hindle, Carmel Amit, Veena Sood, Jordan Peele, David Lewis, Samantha Rose, Miles Phoenix Foley, Joel Chico, Frank C. Turner, Paolo Maiolo, Bailey Corneal.

Not all of us have the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of another soul, we may sympathise with their plight, we can perhaps engage with their worries, their suffering, be overjoyed at their feelings of love, their elation, the demands on their time, the peace they wish for; but we cannot ever fully experience what it is to see our shared surroundings and understand the way they view it.

The Twilight Zone: The Who Of You. Television Review. full post

(488 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

The Third Day. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Naomi Harris, Emily Watson, Paddy Considine, Mark Lewis Jones, John Dagleish, Jessie Ross, Richard Bremmer, Freya Allan, Borje Lundberg, Paul Kaye, Nico Parker.

British Folk Horror or the gothic supernatural doesn’t perhaps get the respect it deserves in the 21st Century, few writers will embrace it, and it appears even less people wish to dip their toe into the murky, almost pitch black seas to which the mirroring and observances of the closed community has thrived unabated by the pressures of time, or indeed the interference of the outside world.

The Third Day. Television Review. full post

(504 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)