Category Archives: TV

Jack Taylor: Priest. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Iain Glen, Killian Scott, Nora-Jane Noone, John Kavanagh, Paraic Breathnach,  Susanne Schrader, Midie Corcoran, Lovis Baum, Dion Arensmann, Ronan Leahy, Eithne Ní Enrí, Nina Borey, Pippa Borey, Nuala Donnolly, Barry Keoghan, Chris Connors, Gary Hetzaler, Martin Linnane, Fionn O’Shea, Ingrid Craigie, Gavin Drea,  Síghle Ní Chonail,  Andreas Krämer, Ray Quinn.

Jack Taylor: The Dramatist. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Iain Glen, Nora Jane Noone, Killian Scott, Niall Buggy, Colm Ward, Kathleen Rayner, Aine Ni Mhuiri, Fionn Walton, Michael Burton, Thomas O’ Suilleabhain, Ann Marie Horan, David Murray, Roisin Loughlane, Sonya O’ Donohue, Emma Eliza Regan, Eoin Bourke, John Cronin, Muirann Ryan, Orla Bell.

Fargo: Buridan’s Ass. Episode Six, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Oliver Platt, Glen Howerton, Adam Goldberg, Russell Harvard, Joshua Close, Barry Flatman, Rachel Blanchard, Peter Breitmayer, Gary Valentine, Gordon S. Miller, Spencer Drever.

When your back is against the wall, you are capable of many things. In the case of Lester Nygaard, his back is so far against the wall that his shadow is slowly suffocating and franticly using a small hammer to try and dig through to the other side.

Mom, Series One. Television Review. I.T.V.2.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anna Faris, Allison Janney, Sadie Calvano, Nate Corddry, Matt L. Jones, French Stewart, Spencer Daniels, Mimi Kennedy, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Pollak.

Fargo, The Six Ungraspables. Episode Five. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, Joey King, Julie Ann Emery, Bob Odenkirk, Adam Goldberg, Russell Harvard, Oliver Platt, Kelly Holden Basher, Dean Barrett, Dave Brown, Shawn Doyle, Barry Flatman, Kirk Heuser, Glen Howerton, Brendan Hunter, Greg Lawson, Roger LeBlanc, Gordon S. Miller, Byron Noble, Chantel Perron,  John Treleaven, Gary Valentine.

 

God, so Stavros Milos believes, is watching over him, Policewoman Molly Solverson is watching over Lester Nygaard, her boss and Gus Grimly, Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench are watching Lester Nygaard as well and Lorne Malvo, well he seems to be pulling the strings behind everybody’s back.

Fargo: Eating The Blame. Episode Review. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, Bob Odenkirk, Adam Goldberg, Glen Howerton, Peter Breitmayer, Oliver Platt, Randy Birch, Tom Carey, Keith Carradine, Joshua Close, Carlos Diaz, Sam Duke, Barry Flatman, Eve Harlow, Russell Harvard, Karen Johnson-Diamond, Ethan Karlsend, Gordon S. Miller, Lonni Olson.

The French Revolution: Tearing Up History. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is a certain joyful glee upon the face of Dr. Richard Clay as he talks of revolution and the overthrowing of church and state in B.B.C. 4’s The French Revolution: Tearing Up History. It isn’t the smile of a man revelling in the blood and gore of history but rather the knowledge that art and perhaps its wilful destruction during times of great political upheaval, is a doorway to understanding the past that can only be rivalled through its literature and music.

Under Milk Wood, 2014 Cast Recording. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Michael Sheen, Tom Jones, Matthew Rhys, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Tom Rhys Harries, Karl Johnson, Iwan Rheon, Aneurin Barnard, Ioan Gruffudd, Kimberley Nixon, Steffan Rhodri, Mark Lewis Jones, Richard Harrington, Sophie Evans, Melanie Walters, Griff Rhys Jones, John Rhys Davies, Andrew Howard, Rakie Ayola, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, Bryn Terfel, Katherine Jenkins, Charlotte Church, Tom Ellis, Aneirin Hughes, Robert Pugh, Suzanne Packer, Eve Myles, Alexandra Roach, Craig Roberts, Sharon Morgan, Owen Teale, Di Botcher, Sian Thomas, Jon Tregenna.

Fargo, The Muddy Road. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, Oliver Platt, Keith Carradine, Kate Walsh, Joshua Close, Adam Goldberg, Russell Harvard, Glen Howerton, Joey King, Tom Musgrave, Susan Park, Barry Flatman, Peter Brietmayer.

It is the ethos of those who perhaps understand Human behaviour better than the rest of us, who say with certain straight melancholy, that the so called Zombie Apocalypse surely wouldn’t be any worse than what we deal with now. They have a point when the devilish Lorne Malvo can be both cruelly charming and disarmingly brutal, an individual who surely would draw inspiration from the evil spirits that fester alongside and within Christopher Marlow’s Faustus.

A Poet In New York, Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hollander, Essie Davis, Ewen Bremner, Phoebe Fox, Samantha Fox, Stuart Matthews, Shane Hart, Morfydd Clark, Lucinda O’Donnell.

What really drives a poet as an artist? Not for them perhaps the adulation bestowed upon them as other artists, the secrecy of their work arguably not given a thought by the population as whole in the same way as a those who follow music. The craft is unseen and so is their life as they squirrel away words like some hide treasure or famous paintings by old Masters. However for Dylan Thomas, he was a breed of the new poet, loved on both sides of The Atlantic after the ravages of World War Two.