Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, Spencer Wilding, Will Irvine, Nicholas Blane, Bryan Larkin, Sarah Amankwah, Colin Carnegie, Georgia Landers, Sophia Nell Huntley, Clayton Grover, Bradley Cooper, Hayley-Marie Axe.

Dungeons & Dragons is a phenomenon of our time, more than a game, it is an icon, an industry masquerading as a competitive pastime. It is equally adored and derided, but there is no doubting the seriousness in which those who immerse themselves into the fortunes and constructed tales take as they don the imagination and furnish the creativity, and to those who watch from the sidelines, they cannot help themselves but wish to join in.

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

Gareth Heesom: Selfies By The Sea. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The public complain of the rise of the selfie, the pose that keeps on coming in the most arguably often inappropriate places. The issue as they see it is a belief that a camera phone in the hand and the constant retakes is either a case of narcissism out of control, or struggling to see an image of themselves that they can be satisfied without bowing to the pressure of anxiety.

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(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Once And Future – Two’s Company. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Colin Baker, Camille Coduri, Michael Maloney, Christopher Naylor, Michelle Ryan, Tim Treloar.

The Time War rages, and the Doctor is unable to offer much help; and for once it is because he is trying desperately to help himself in solving perhaps one of the greatest threats to all his existence ever.

Degeneration is the key, and whilst the Doctor has felt its effects as the process, he perhaps has not gleaned the full problem that awaits, and who finer to paint the picture than the recent addition to the Whoniverse than that of the fearsome Timelord, The Eleven.

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(375 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

World On Fire: Series Two. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jonah Hauer-King, Lesley Manville, Julia Brown, Zofia Wichlacz, Mark Bonnar, Parker Sawyers, Blake Harrison, Eugénie Derouand, Ewan Mitchell, Ahad Raza Mir, Miriam Schiweck, Gregg Sulkin, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Eryk Biedunkiewicz, Cel Spellman, Johanna Götting, Beat Marti, Carl Grübel, Matthias Lier, Jonathan Harden, Grace Chilton, Arthur Choisnet.

World On Fire might not be the most in depth, the most heroic, the fiercest critique of World War Two, but it has a sense of honour and grace to it that many television series have neglected, overshadowed, or even pumped up as if to show the period of waste and fear as though it is one big adventure: a celluloid advert for the want of war.

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

The Paper Kites: At The Roundhouse. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Flying a kite in a thunderstorm is a reckless occupation, only scientists and foolhardy adventurers would see the lightning and relish the challenge…and yet to see the spark of brilliance as the flash explodes, as the possibility of fire framed by the reflection in the eye, that is the moment where holding The Paper Kites might just be the most thrilling occasion a person can behold.

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(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Nunnery Norheim: I Saw The City. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

A true observer of the human condition and one who sees the meaning behind every building, who feels every ounce of historical sweat that was produced as cracks and fissures were framed and restored, and who understands that the town, every village, and that of the great and expanding metropolitan, is as much of the fabric of society as the person who lives and breathes within their tempered walls….these are the people who recognise the point in documenting it all to words and memory.

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(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Clean Sweep. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Charlene Mckenna, Barry Ward, Aiden McCann, Rhys Mannion, Katelyn Rose Downey, Jeanne Nicole Ni Áinle, Adam Fergus, Aoibheann McCann, Nathara Dayananda, Grace Collender, Cathy Belton, Benjamin Bergin, Robert Mitchell, Kevin Trainor, Orla Casey, Trevor Kaneswaran, Roisin Rankin, Ray Weafer, Sean Duggan, Joe Rooney, Oscar Nolan, Youssef Quinn, Tristan Heanue, Breffni Clack, Steve Gunn, Maeron Libomi, Niall Bishop, Bernadette Carty, Fergus Mulligan.

How far we go to erase our part in a moral and societal transgression is purely at the conscious of our very being. This is especially true when we commit murder to cover up a murder.

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(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Wolf. Televison Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ukweli Roach, Juliet Stephenson, Owen Teale, Annes Elwy, Sacha Dhawan, Iwan Rheon, Kezia Burrows, Ciarán Joyce, Gwïon Morris Jones, Anthony Webster, Sian Reese-Williams, Zadeiah Campbell-Davies, Emily Adara, Oscar Coleman, Amanda Drew, Luke Rhodri, Andy Eadie, Tim Treloar, Karl Johnson, Kai Owen, Mabil Jên Eustace, Simon Dwyer-Thomas.

There have been a multitude of tales brought to the television viewer’s attention which focus on the ferocity of being to be found within the psychopath, of the damaged, and those to whom society has itself bullied and tormented and then not understood why the dog that was kicked has turned and bitten back.

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(519 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Mike Ryan: All We Have Is Now. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

All We Have Is Now…and that is the truth of it; for we can plan for the future as much as we are able, we can look ahead with degree of certainty that our plans will be realised, but the moment comes and goes with frightening regularity, and we are in the end undeniably slaves to the prospect of the tick and the tock of a potential lost.

If we grasp the moment with a force of momentum that leaves scars on the hand, then that now is forever framed and laid down in ways that leave a searing heat of pleasure across the conscious of the artist within.

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(367 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)