Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Hedda Stiernstedt, Filip Berg, Daniel Larsson, David Nzinga, Bahar Pars, Alida Morberg, Andre Ericksen, Ester Udden, Anja Landgre.
When the makers of a serial decide in their infinite wisdom to take a story back before the events in which made their original premise a success, they leave themselves open to the kind of questions that would not befall them had they carried forth from the moment in which the initial resolution had been created.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: James Purefoy, Jessica Raine, Nicky Henson, Anton Lesser, Heather Craney, Stuart McLoughlin, Clive Howard, Danny Sapani, Jaimi Barbakoff, Wilf Scolding.
It is often a frustration that comes in waves, that no matter how incredible the film Blade Runner is, how mesmerising the feel of the story is, it somehow, like all adaptations of Philip K. Dick’s glorious output, is left feeling altered, bereft of the soul of the man to whom so much is owed.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Idris Elba, Ruth Wilson, Patrick Malahide, Dermot Crowley, Wunmi Mosaku, Lex Daniel, Enzo Cilenti, Hermione Norris, Anthony Howell, Michael Smiley, Paul McGann, Lewis Young, Sonita Henry, Luke Westlake, Lex Daniel, Michael Obiora, Delroy Atkinson, Gary Hailes, Katherine Orchard, Jami Reid-Quarrell, Roberta Taylor.
The cruelty of life is such that those who should stay dead, sometimes never do, the mayhem of their life interferes with any possible peace that may come your way, their presence, long after you thought you had buried them, somehow returns to cause chaos, to bring you pain, a pain arguably always born out of misplaced loyalty, memory and love.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Morena Baccarin, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, Erin Richards, Carmen Bicondova, Cory Michael Smith, Jessica Lucas, Chris Chalk, Drew Powell, Crystal Reed, Alexander Siddig, Anthony Carrigan, Maggie Geha, Peyton List, Charlie Tahan, David W. Thompson, Kelcy Griffin, Nathan Darrow, Michael Cerveris, Camila Perez, Michelle Veintimilla, Cameron Monaghan, Benedict Samuel, J.W. Cortes, John Doman, B.D. Wong.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, Charlotte Ritchie, Nikesh Patel, Daniel Adegboyega, Darryl Clark, Connor Calland, James Lewis, Sophie Duval, Callum McDonald, Harry Vallance, Laura Evelyn, Michael Ballard.
It is never the end, not as far as the Doctor and the Daleks are concerned. A writer’s symbol of the evils of Fascism, a nightmare to which we should always guard against returning, and yet seem to find unbelievably steeling its resolve with sharpening and destructive purpose.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: John Malkovich, Andrew Buchan, Rupert Grint, Eamon Farren, Fraya Mavor, Michael Shaeffer, Shirley Henderson, Kevin McNally, Bronwyn James, Christopher Villiers, Anya Chalotra, Tara Fitzgerald, Suzanne Packer, Eve Austin, Jack Farthing, Tamzin Griffin, Lizzy McInnerny, Ian Pirie, Cyril Nri, Gregor Fisher, Neil Hurst, Henry Goodman.
No one actor has the monopoly on a character, not one viewer has the definitive right to install as an absolute god their chosen performer in the role in which others can bring a different dimension to the flaws and assets possessed of those brought to life before an audience; it is perhaps not even the right of the imaginative soul who brought them into existence to dictate who should don the greasepaint of any one individual who is there to glean insight into the human condition.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Simon Callow, Anjli Mohindra, Susan Penhaligon, Joshua Oakes-Rogers.
It was turn of the 20th Century author M.R. James who asserted that the spectres within a ghost story should always have malevolent intent if the story is to work, if it is to prick the conscious of the reader and give them the type of scare in which boundaries are crossed between the world we see and the domain of the dead.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Ruth Bradley, Ralph Ineson, Tim McInnerny, Blake Harrison, Pippa Haywood, Michael McElhatton, Bebe Cave, Brian McCardie, Dean Andrews, Samantha Spiro, Stacha Hicks, Liam McMahon, Joshua Silver, Luke Pierre, Seamus O’ Hare, Clare McMahon, Amelia Dell, Derek Halligan, Richard Doubleday.
Nobody truly disappears without a reason, whether it is in the spirit of foul play, a release from the pressure of life, or in the act of rage fuelled revenge, people don’t vanish from public life unless there is a motive lurking under the soil of the person’s existence in which leads to the art of murder being employed.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, John Boyega, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Peter Capaldi, Mackenzie Crook, Anne-Marie Duff, Taron Egerton, Freddie Fox, Lee Ingleby, Miles Jupp, Daniel Kaluuya, Craig Parkinson, Daniel Rigby, Jason Watkins, Gemma Chan, James Alexander, Rosamund Pike, Andrew Walton, Olivia Colman, Lorraine Bruce, Rosie Day, Henry Goodman, Murray McArthur, Tom Wilkinson, James Faulkner, Lizzie Clarke, Rory Kinnear, Charlotte Spencer, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Peter Guinness, Sam Redford, Luke Neal.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: David Mitchell, Kenneth Branagh, Liza Tarbuck, Tim Downie, Harry Enfield, Gemma Whelen, Lily Cole, Dominic Coleman, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Mark Heap, Rob Rouse, Steven Speirs, Spencer Jones, Helen Monks, Paula Wilcox, Rosanna Beacock, Hannah-Jane Fox, Karl Theobald, Luka Petrovic.
Words, songs, and inspiration hang in ether waiting for the right ear in which to discern their meaning, what though a clever mind can deduce is sometimes another soul will mark them with greater solemnity, the time is not always right – and the words are heeded, but allowed with great wishes and understanding to find another home in which to be born, another time in which the need is nobler, the suffering of the people more acute.