Guardians Of The Galaxy: Vol .3. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Chukwudi Iwuji, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Pom Klementieff, Dave Buatista, Vin Diesel, Maria Bakalova, Sean Gunn, Will Poulter, Elizabeth Debicki, Sylvester Stallone, Linda Cardellini, Asim Chaudhry, Mikaela Hoover, Judy Greer, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Byron Davis, Molly C. Quinn.

From surprise smash hit to mainstay of the franchise, Guardians Of The Galaxy has done enough to be equal to many of the tales brought to life from the graphic novels of Marvel to the big screen, and perhaps in timely honour, it is only right that the final scenes, for now at least, have seen the mixed bag of characters endear themselves into the public perception.

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

Confess, Fletch. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jon Hamm, Roy Wood Jr., Ayden Mayeri, Lorena Izzo, Kyle MacLachlan, Annie Mumolo, John Behlmann, Anna Osceola, John Slattery, Lucy Punch, Marcia Gay Harden, Robert Picardo, Eugene Mirman, Kenneth Kimmins, Caitlin Zerra Rose, Aaron Andrade, Travis Bennett, Nhumi Threadgill.

Fletch lived, briefly but with all the attention that Chevy Chase could muster in the two adaptions made for cinema when he was one of the undisputed kings of American film. Fletch lived, but cinema can be fickle, it can just as quickly destroy as it can create, and after 1989’s Fletch Lives became but a distant memory there was probably no hope that Gregory McDonald’s popular creation would project its neo-noir investigative detective would be back to confront the sins of those without a sense of humour again.

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

Roger Powell: Blue Note Ridge. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whist many insist melancholy is the abuse of suffering by the individual, for some it is the arguable truth that it acts as more of a progression to motivation than that captured by the belief of utopia. Utopia may be the ultimate dream, but to get there you must understand that the beauty in your possession is a symbol of the everyday release of expression that comes from allowing the soul to search for the serenity gifted by the melancholic memory.

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(333 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

A Man Called Adam: The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart is one in need of attention, that requires care and nurturing, for the hole could be a void, it could be the missing part that makes her see the world with a different mindset, and one only cured by listening to her voice as she allows those feelings to escape, to flood the body with the love she has always wanted to share with another soul.

That sense of sharing, of offering, comes thick and fast in the brand-new album from the electronica legends, A Man Called Adam.

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(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: 3 x 3. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Tiajna Amayo, James Bailey, Kiran L. Dadlani, Gemma Page, Mary Keegan, Ronay Poole, Jim Rastall, James Tucker, Saskia Wakefield.

A piece of television that keeps you awake during the night, that has taken your reason out for a long walk and left it at the roadside attached to a pole and driven off at high speed, is to be congratulated for the sheer audacity in which it has been conceived and executed.

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(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Gareth Heesom: The Way You Look At Me. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We all want that moment, be it for a brief period in our lives, or if we are fortunate, a sense of relief that lasts years, even a lifetime. There is no emotional satisfaction that comes close, no gut-wrenching honesty that survives and offers hope than when you can say to someone who loves you that “The Way You Look At Me” makes me want to be a better person.

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(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

The Old Way. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Nicholas Cage, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Noah Le Gros, Philip Aguirre, Clint Howard, Katelyn Bauer, Abraham Benrubi, Nick Searcy, Dean Armstrong, Everett Blunck, Brett Donowho, Shiloh Fernandez, Corby Griesenbeck, Boyd Kestner, Kerry Knuppe, Adam Lazarre-White, Beau Linnell, Jeff Medley, Joe Pepper, Craig Bramham, Eddie Spears, Skyler Stone.

Seeking revenge for a perceived wrong in childhood is a powerful emotion that runs arguably deeper than that which inflicts itself on that of an older man or woman, both states of the human experience run true, both leave their mark on the psyche, but that which leaves its scars in youth is harder to supress and conceal than that which occurs in middle age.

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(551 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Comrades-In-Arms. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jonathon Carley, Ajjaz Awad, Michael Amariah, Nicholas Briggs, Tiegan Byrne, Esmonde Cole, Sophie Khan Levy, Georgia Mackenzie, Deeivya Meir, Lucy Murrell.

The Time War arguably truly begins with a hybrid being fought over, a case study in the relative positions of two great empires, one dedicated by the actions of a mad man to destruction, racial purity, and genocide, the other the relic of a period in time when lords were looked upon as Gods, and when they acted in the same casual, nonchalant manner.

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

Miss Scarlet And The Duke. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin, Ansi Kabia, Evan McCabe, Felix Scott, Sophie Robertson, Brian Bovell, Cathy Belton, Simon Ludders, Sam Hoare, Tim Chipping, Tafline Steen, Greg Haiste, Robert Wilfort, Emma Gojkovic, Joseph May, Will Merrick, Tamsin Newlands, Liz Crowther, James Barriscale.

There are detective series that stand out for an entirely different reason than that which are forever hoping to attain.

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(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Peter Cox: Seaglass. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We are glass shaped by time rather than the permanent waves of water that pound the debris of celebration into shape; and yet if we are fortunate, we end up the same, we are smoothed, levelled, and in rounded into shape of that which can best serve humanity rather than being the image of the rutted an craggy, the sharp end which cuts and slices into the flesh of others as we walk over them, as we leave an imprint of desperation on the shores of time.

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(430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)