Doctor Who: Time War- Volume Four. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Rakhee Thakrar, Terry Malloy, Adèle Anderson, Isla Blair, Ken Bones, Nicholas Briggs, Chris Jarman, Julia McKenzie, Suzanne Proctor, Jemima Rooper.

The Daleks may well be the ultimate embodiment of what it means to think of an enemy that is relentless, unfeeling, without emotion, and whilst you know that they will never understand compassion or empathy, they are but dust when the fan comes to think of their creator, when Davros enters the narrative, for in just one being you have a fictional character that can be seen in the most evil of men that have ever walked the Earth; that this creature who first locked intellect with the Doctor in Genesis of the Daleks, is in every way the master of genocide, of propaganda and lies, and to whom the viewer associates completely with the malevolent wickedness of Fascism.

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(659 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Time War -Volume Three. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Rakhee Thakrar, Michael Jayston, Nicholas Briggs, Adèle Anderson, Wendy Craig, Andrew Fettes, Raj Ghatak, Natalie Gumede, Anjli Mohindra, Jamie Newall, Jude Owusu, John Scougall, Venice Van Someren, Nina Wadia, Tracey Wiles.

If ever there was an arc of stories that deserved to be told for television within the Doctor Who universe, then The Time War would surely be the set that the fandom would overwhelmingly clamour, would petition in their droves to have given precedence over all others.

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(692 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

Chris Wragg And Greg Copeland: The Last Sundown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Do we ever really contemplate what it would mean to witness our final experience of dusk, that The Last Sundown we see with our own eyes is not one of mystery, of appreciating the majesty of the Universe, of even hoping to observe one final emergence of what was once considered a god peek over the horizon, but one that is shrouded by a shrug of indifference as we assume that all we have will be repeated the next day, and the one after that for time immemorial.

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(467 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Colin Macduff: Seperations. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is only one thing in our life that is remembered more than an enduring love, and that is the break up that came before it, the moment when your heart and soul is crushed under the weight of the delusion that you have suffered that one person could have been the one, and little regard they felt for your state of mind as they leave you in pieces; the Separations of spirit are not just the acceptance of the bleak, but the catalyst to be better as you reflect on all that took place.

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(471 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

A Murder At The End of The World. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Emma Corrin, Brit Marling, Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, Alice Braga, Joan Chen, Raúl Esparza, Jermaine Fowler, Ryan J. Haddad, Pegah Ferydoni, Javed Khan, Louis Cancelmi, Edoardo Ballerini, Christopher Gurr, Britian Seibert, Kellan Tetlow, Neal Huff, Daniel Olson, Annette Wright.

The rise of the internet podcast has seen the amateur armchair detective morph into an investigator capable of holding court over a local case that has perplexed them and have at least a small following that are willing to delve into their possible outlandish theories and suspicions, for every mystery, every possible homicide can now leave a mark on the world wide web that could be the next big thing, the next sensation.

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(588 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

Vigil. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Suranne Jones, Rose Leslie, Gary Lewis, Orla Russell, Dougray Scott, Romola Garai, Chris Jenks, Oscar Salem, Dominic Mafham, Nebras Jamali, Amir El-Masry, Steven Elder, Kim Allan, Rebecca Banatvala, Naomi Stirrat, Kamal Mustaffai, Anders Hayward, Armin Karima, Khalid Laith, Alastair Mackenzie, Martin Bell, Tania Rodrigues.

From death under water, to death from the skies, the second series of the initial smash hit Vigil once more hits the ground running as it pushes Detectives Amy Silva and Kirsten Longacre to the limit of their emotions and deductive powers as a routine demonstration of military hardwire suddenly turns into an horrendous murder scene and slaughter.

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(467 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Jim Pearson: Death To Mortality. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Occasionally as a music listener you are transported to a place that is more than technically proficient, offers a finer sense of belief, and gives you a reason to smile in the darkness, one that insists there is a greater bounty to be found when we understand that being a casualty is a transience state of being, that we must be prepared to be vocal in our opposition to leaving the room silently, that in our defiant gestures we be certain to scream out Death To Mortality with all the fire of life we have ever displayed and forced out with that which is human.

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(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Time War 2. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Paul McGann, Rakhee Thakrar, Jaqueline Pearce, Nicholas Briggs, Guy Adams, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Anya Ayola, Jon Culshaw, Victor McGuire, Julia McKenzie, Tania Rodrigues, Amanda Root, Simon Slater.

The Time War rages on, and The Doctor, free of being pressed into Galactic Service as a recruit, still finds his freedom to help where he can, the reluctant warrior in a senseless never-ending war, curtailed by the machinations of the evil on both sides; be it the Daleks or the Timelords, the war between them is bringing destruction to a wider scope of existence…and at the very basis of life they both show how little they care for the innocent casualty, for the races that scream in horror as they are erased or slaughtered in the name of victory.

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(643 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

Mayfair Witches. Televvision Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Tongayi Chirisa, Jack Huston, Harry Hamlin, Hannah Alline, Beth Grant, Annabeth Gish, Ravi Naidu, Ian Hoch, Jen Richards, Suleka Mathew, Geraldine Singer, Charlayne Woodward, Emma Rose Smith, Dennis Boitsikaris, Madison Wolfe, Keyara Milliner, Deneen Tyler, Leslie Castay, Nadine Lewington, Melissa Chambers, Jay Thames, Erica Gimpel, Chris Coy, Tobias Jelinek, Cameron Inman, Joshua Mikel, Billy Slaughter.

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(598 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Shazam! Fury Of The Gods. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler, Lucy Liu, Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, D.J. Cotrona, Grace Caroline Currey, Meagan Good, Faithe Herman, Ian Chen, Jovan Armand, Marta Milans, Cooper Andrews, Rizwan Manji, Diedrich Bader, P.J. Byrne, David Lengel, Carson MacCormac, Evan Marsh, Gal Gadot.

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(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)