Poker Face. Series One. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Benjamin Bratt, Simon Helberg, Adrian Brody, Ellen Barkin, Nick Nolte, Chloë Sevigny, Dascha Polanco, Noah Segan, Ron Perlman, Luis Guzmán, Hong Chau, Tim Meadows, Megan Suri, Colton Ryan, John Ratzenburger, Brandon Michael Hall, Judith Light, S. Epatha Merkerson, Tim Russ, Tim Blake Nelson, Joseph-Gordan Levitt, Clea Duval, David Castañeda, Lil Rel Howery, Danielle Macdonald, Shane Paul McGhie, Larry Brown, Jameela Jamil, Audrey Corsa, Charles Melton.

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

Yellowjackets. Series One. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Alexa Barajas, Mya Lowe, Ella Purnell, Sarah Desjardins, Jane Widdop, Alex Wyndham, Rukiya Bernard, Aiden Stoxx, Keeya King, Rekha Sharma, Peter Gadiot, Princess Davis, Jeff Holman, Andres Soto, Jack DePew.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Van Der Valk: Redemption In Amsterdam. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Darrell D’Silva, Emma Fielding, Azan Ahmed, Django Chan-Reeves, Daisy Badger, Lu Corfield, Aden Gillett, Simon Gregor, Jaye Griffiths, Rasmus Hardiker, Bart van den Donker, Alwin Pulinckx, Tara Hetharia, Zoë, Love Smith, Sol Vinken, Loes Haverkort, Peter van Heerlingen, Mike Libanon.

Each one of us has done something terrible in our lives, committed an act that has caused another person distress, has made perhaps a loved one think badly of our actions, and we have in return either sought out forgiveness or taken on board the anger and allowed it to define us, to be that which we have been labelled, even if it transpires that we were in the end innocent of the charge.

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

Perry Mason. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham, Eric Lange, Diarra Kilpatrick, Justin Kirk, Gayle Rankin, Molly Ephraim, Katherine Waterston, Paul Raci, Jen Tullock, Mark O’Brien, Veronica Falcón, Peter Mendoza, Fabrizio Guido, Onahoua Rodriguez, Jon Chafin, Jee Young Han, Hope Davis, Stephanie Hoston, Wallace Langham, Kersti Bryan, Amber Friendly, Tom Amanes, Gretchen Mol, Mona Lee Wylde, Anthony Molinari, John DiMaggio, Jack Eyman, Brian R. Norris, Christopher Carrington, Tommy Dewey, Sean Astin.

Perry Mason is an American icon, based on a legendary criminal defence lawyer, and to whom was a staple of television in the guise of Raymond Burr in the title role.

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(562 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Don’t Worry Darling. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, Sydney Chandler, Kate Berlant, Asif Ali, Douglas Smith, Timothy Simons, Ari’el Stachel, Steve Berg, Daisy Sudeikis, Marcello Reves, Dita Von Teese.

Wouldn’t we all like to be happy and carefree, to see the world through the lens of contentment and satisfaction. The world at ease is attainable, but would we, like the passive Eloi that were food for the Morlocks in The Time Machine, soon be fodder for someone else appetite, not necessarily our flesh being consumed, but our minds, our souls, being stripped of anything that was fiercely individual, being human.

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

Steve Lukather: Bridges. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is no doubting that Toto will considered as one of the finest of America’s ever bands, a group of musicians that came together with a certainty in their collective hearts, and one that inspired their listeners to examine, like groups such as Chicago, Kansas, and Journey, their relationship with classic American Rock in an age that has straddled beyond its perceived time as the voice of a generation that sought to change the world in the shadow of the elders who stood still after they stopped being the Golden Generation.

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

Nunnery Norheim: You Are Here. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There comes an age where eventually you might become unmoved by art, the moment where you realise you are not where you once stood, but further disconnected from the ache of a poet’s heart, where you might have more in common with the stone discarded from a sculpture’s reason that the reveal of beauty you once stood in awe of. It is possible, and occasionally perfectly understandable to be so overwhelmed that all that is left inside is dust and tears.

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(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Once And Future: The Artist At The End Of Time. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Davison, Georgia Tennant, Colin Baker, Abi Harris, Sylvester McCoy, Stephen Noonan, John Telfer, Tim Treloar, Michael Troughton.

We denigrate the artist during their lifetime, and only appreciate them when they have passed. The poorer the artist, the more their work is valued after they have departed this world, it is an exchange we barter for where we can, with hand on heart, say we have supported a starving artist, but it is delivered at the expense of a fat profit and unimportant conscience.

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

Van Der Valk: Freedom In Amsterdam. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Darrell D’Silva, Emma Fielding, Azan Ahmed, Django Chan-Reeves, Rita Bernard-Shaw, Josh Bolt, Thoren Ferguson, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Patrick Aliev, Simone Giel, Erika Minderop, Loek Peters, Sieger Sloot, Chiem Vreeken, Loes Haverkort, Peter van Heeringen, Mike Libanon.

A detective’s team is a family, there may be the lone wolf who solves crimes with unnerving consistency, but they still require back up in today’s modern fight against the criminal underworld, they essentially need collaboration and reinforcement to bring the perpetrator to book, to see justice done; and yet there is the grey area which insists that if a detective has a family of sorts to help in their examinations of the crime, then the criminal themselves relies heavily on those they also have brought into their own fold.

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

The Piper. Radio Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tamzin Outhwaite, Charlie Lou Borthwick, Rosalina McDonagh, Kacey Ainsworth, Kassius Carey Johnson, Manpreet Bachu, Shiloh Coke, Andrew Tiernan, Mark Lockyer, Deka Walmsley, Rob Jarvis, Nhu Huynh, Natalie Mitchell, Macready Massey, Anamaria Marinca, Holly Hazelton.

Many a children’s tale of caution is one that is designed in actuality for the adult to take heed. The children of Hamelin were not the ones to openly suffer at the hands of the musician and his magic, but the parents who saw their children spirited away in act of vengeance of non-payment. It is to this effect that other tales show their true hand, the adult beware of those we cross, for the payment is often more than we can bear to lose.

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(590 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)