Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Therapy is undervalued, especially when it is one of your own making, your own source of companionship, your own place and time finding ways to defeat the false fears and ills that cloud our days and our souls; the damage wrought by the defeat in advance, the conscious, overwhelming beating before you have taken to the ring…these are the moments in which therapy, in caring for oneself, is to be applauded, urged, and followed through upon.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Lydia Wilson, Justin Salinger, Isabella Inchbald, Simon Harrison, Clare Perkins, Jason Barnett.
Pop culture moments tend to stick in the collective memory more than most, even when a person is obviously too young to have witnessed it first hand, the abundance of times it has been watched and rewatched, the stories of its greatness handed down from one generation to the next; pop culture is the ultimate foundation of the 20th and 21st Centuries to which glory has been immortalised in a single snap shot of a camera’s lens.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Gwyneth Keyworth, John Heffernan, Tom Kiteley, Hughie O’ Donnell, Chloë Sommer, Roger Ringrose.
A ghost story does wonders for the spirits…
We walk through Time without thinking of the pieces of ourselves that we leave behind, shedding skin, leaving our imprint on everything we have held, touched, sat in, argued with, loved, abused, cared for; our soul has its own legacy to which we leave echoes of our lives trapped in the moment of Time forever.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Murder is an abhorrence to nature, and yet there are circumstances in which the taking of a life can be seen as a mercy, that it can be driven by political fears, and that of desperation when viewed through the lens of self-defence.
Even in age where there appears to be a glut, an overwhelming dedicated number of column inches in newspapers and social media driven commentary to any number of murders that take place in Britain, and around the world, it still comes as a shock to the senses that someone would willingly take another life, and even more astonishing when the murderer is revealed as a woman.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: John Simm, Zoë Tapper, Craig Parkinson, Richie Campbell, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Clare Calbraith, Boni Adeliyi, Andy Apollo, Rakie Ayola, Lizzie Back, Steve Broad, Joanna Brookes, Eliot Cable, Charlotte Christof, Alexander Cobb, Darcy Collins, Thomas Coombes, Rai Endah, Heather Ann Foster, Ernest Gromov, Darragh Hand, Robert Hands, Molly Harris, Jo Herbert, Sam Hoare, Rob Jarvis, Claudia Jolly, Max Krupski, Kiera Lester, Sibylla Meienberg, Henry Miller, Luke Norris, Jack Pierce, Tyler-Jo Richardson, Rebecca Scoggs, Nicholas Tizzard, Ben Wiggins, Charlotte Workman, Jay Oliver Yip.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
A poem is never truly finished, but despite the great Paul Valery’s insight, it is, in the hands of a master, never abandoned, it just waits for right moment to undergo a metamorphosis which transcends its original moment in time, and take on the appearance, the structure of a different period in which the artist can revaluate their place in history. Poetry, art is never finished, but it can undergo a transformation which gives the voyeur and listener alike a reason to keep fighting.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is a train of thought that suggests without a sense of irony that in music’s place in British geographical history, Manchester and its local area, with a few exceptions, is the poor relation of inspiring and successful bands when compared to places such as Birmingham, Glasgow, London, and of course Liverpool.
There is a physical injustice to that belief, one that does rankle even those that were not enamoured by the sound of a generation that defined the 1990s, and one that certainly should be dropped when you have the opportunity to listen to a work drenched in guilt free sublime introspection.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Ian Hart, Danny Huston, Colm Meaney, Ian Hart, Alan Cumming, Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, Stella Stocker, François Arnaud, Mitchell Mullen, Patrick Muldoon, Daniela Melchior, Roberto Peralta, J.M. Maciá, Michael Garvey, David Lifschitz, Anton Antoniadis, Minnie Marx, Seána Kerslake, Julius Cotter, Michael Strelow.
Whether in classic sense of the genre, or in its more functional, but less direct late 20th Century/21st Century observance, Noir influences the cinematic lover in ways that other fields of the medium fail to deliver.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Rory Cochrane, David Dasmaichian, Peter Gerety, Robert John Burke, Morgan Spector, Michael Malvesti, Aurora McLaughlin, Liam Anderson, Antonio X Volpicelli, Nancy E. Carroll, Therese Plaehn, Stephen Thorne, Greg Vrotsos, Ian Lyons, Christian Mallen, Pat Fitz, Pamela Jayne Morgan, Robert C. Kirk, Charlie Thurston, Kate Middleton, Ivan Martin, Kate Avallone, Tamara Hickey, Luke Kirby, Steve Routman, Thomas Kee, Kyra Weeks, John Lee Ames, Richard O’Rourke, James Ciccone, Bill Camp, Jimmy LeBlanc, Gary Galone, David Conley, Josh Drennen, Brian Faherty, Caroline Nesbitt.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
To see reason and clarity you must first break the chains that tie you down, which bind you to the prison others have created, and which you cannot envisage freedom. That which offers no escape is the greatest reason to keep fighting.