Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Those Death Wish Blues will get you in the end, but until that time when the clocks reach their appointed hour you have the chance, the sublime opportunity to delve into two of the modern greats as they combine their incredible talent in an album that beats down the door of frustrating and riddled inelegance that has come to define an era dominated somewhat by the bland and crafted lyrical dullness.
Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10
In one of the great mysteries of life, the fans of one of Birmingham’s finest musical ambassadors, the scintillating and unique Toyah Willcox, have always been left wondering why one of the most memorable performances of her early career was never given the aural treatment it deserved. Why it seemed to appear on every other format except the one it mattered on, the vinyl love it required to truly capture an icon at the height of her powers and majestic best.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Never allow yourself to stay down for too long, for the view is arguably addictive and the memories that accompany it are full of warmth and dangerously comforting.
Rise Again, step into the zone you are only vaguely familiar with, rise once more and find the place where industry meets imagination, and allow the feelings of passion for the new run its course and where it leads to discovery.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Claire Rushbrook, Frances Barber, Matthew Horne, Asim Chaudhry.
The insular and the perpetually lonely, the shy and the sexually sly, have never had it so good when it comes to the advent of online dating. As near to anonymity as it is possible to go, the filters, the regulations, the privacy, all is in favour of finding the one, the perfect match which little engagement and effort; for nobody expects to find love online, no one imagines unearthing the one to die for in such a short space of time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The labours of Hercules are often painted as a Greek romance, of the depths someone will go to prove their worth, or to atone for some misgiving. However, if we are to compare modern endeavours with that of Greek legend, then surely Sissyphus and the unstoppable boulder would be more of a direct analogy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Bertie Carvel, Carlyss Peer, Michael Culkin, Sara Stewart, Michael Maloney, Silas Carson, Yaseen Aroussi, Daisy Waterhouse, Barbara Marten, David Pearse, Alistair Brammer, Michael Amariah, Charlotte McCurry, Alex Hope, David Bamber, Liz Crowther, Marsha Miller.
The trouble with the law is that it does not take into consideration the actions of those who implement it.
Justice not only comes with a price, and as the statue insists, is blind, but if wielded in the wrong hands can be a weapon more potent than that in which it is in place to discourage, to outlaw.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The demonstration of intent when it comes releasing your debut album is bound by a kind of artistic law that states it must show the confidence that is full of gravitas and punch, that if it fails to deliver a groove or the belief of scope and majesty required, then what you have created is not worth the life you have spent honing and perfecting your words, not setting the tone to which honours the pain and joy that your existence has endured so far.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Idris Elba, Leah Jeffries, Iyana Halley, Sharlto Copley, Liyabuya Gongo, Martin Munro, Daniel Hadebe, Thapelo Sebogodi, Chris Langa, Mduduzi Mavimbela, Chris Gxalaba, Kazi Khuboni, Tafara Nyatsanza, Ronald Mikwanazi, Naledi Mogadime, Thabo Rametsi.
A film that divides is prosperous indeed, and whilst Beast is not the greatest film of all time, what it lacks in agility and convincing CGI/acting, it more than makes up for in its environmental message. A film that produces empathy and disgust at the actions of a part of humanity driven by destruction, deserves more praise than it has received so far.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
At least once in a person’s life, the wish to hit the Re-Set button is one they cannot ignore. They may plod on for a time in the usual manner, appearing to the world with a smile and a look of contentment, but the human spirit that dwells within will only burn for so long before it requires re-adjusting to the understanding that it needs to start again, not completely, but at the point where in the heart they may feel they wandered off the path of promise and hope and into the wilderness of appeasement and allowing others to misuse their good intentions.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Amanda Abbington, Samantha Spiro, Ayda Kiiza, Moyo Akandé, Leon Herbert, Dermot O’ Leary,
We should be mindful of what we perceive to be irrational phobias; just because we find the notion of being fretful when a black cat crosses our path, that actors’ aversion to mentioning the lead name in Shakespeare’s Scottish play may bemuse us, or that Anatidaephobia is nothing to give a duck about, we must acknowledge that part of our own individuality and reason is immersed in the most simple of these anxieties, that something from the primordial soup attached itself to us and which has grown like a shadow as we have progressed through time.