Salem’s Lot (2024). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Lewis Pullman, Mackenzie Leigh, Jordan Preston Carter, Alfre Woodard, Bill Camp, John Benjamin Hickey, Nicholas Crovetti, Spencer Treat Clark, Pilou Asbæk, Alexander Ward, Danielle Perry, Debra Christofferson, William Sadler, Timothy John Smith, Mike Kaz, Cade Woodward, Joseph Marrella, Declan Lemerande, Oliver Dauberman, Rebecca Gibel, James Milord, Fedna Jacquet, Marilyn Busch, Michelle Steven Costello, Avery Bederman, Derek Mears, Jim Patton, Kellan Rhude, Sage Rudnick, Anna Rizzo, Celeste Oliva, Fred Robbins.

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(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Salem. Television Drama Series. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Janet Montgomery, Shane West, Seth Gabel, Tamzin Merchant, Ashley Madekwe, Elise Eberle, Iddo Goldberg, Oliver Bell, Joe Doyle, Jeremy Crutchley, Lucy Lawless, Xander Berkeley, Michael P. Gardner, Michael Mulheren, Desiree Page, John R. Bennett II, Samantha Hanratty, Azure Parsons, Stephen Lang, Lara Grice, Samuel Roukin, Thomas Francis Murphy, Mary Katherine O’Donnell, Stuart Townsend, Christopher Berry, Clint James, Emma Claire Wynn, Marilyn Manson, Benjamin Mouton.

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(671 words, estimated 2:41 mins reading time)

Max Rael: The Enemy Is Us. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We lose faith in ourselves quicker than we do others, at times we can look at ourselves in the mirror and see the face of the one that holds us back, whose existence can mock us without reproach, and we feel the agency of anger and the motivation of attack from that which comes from within because we realise with certainty that The Enemy Is Us, and it frightens us, it terrifies us, and yet can create through the tension such art that it acts as a salve, as a calming liniment of appeasement. 

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(519 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Kemp Harris: The America Chronicles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

For many different reasons we may ask of ourselves what has become of the America we loved, the post war influence on modern culture that caught the likes of Generation X in its opportunity and the promise of freedom from the wasted youth and lost home grown government blandness, or even a haven for the Millennial seeking inspiration in social issues and the recent of music from the land of the neo-punk and new goth standards, all would feel entitles to ask what has become of America.

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(423 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Infamous Stiffs: The Ornery Six. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Never apologise for who you are, never express contriteness for the sound you create, look the public in the eye and dare them to find fault in the majesty of expression, of your individuality.

It is a lesson that any artist finds themselves always continually testing the limits of, what could grab the attention of the new possible listener or sticking to the guns and delivering a purity of no-nonsense Punk Rock delivery with a volley of drums and a passion for rebellious disobedience you are known for.

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(306 words, 1 image, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Dead End Irony: Battles And Brotherhood. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Attitude in the wrong hands can be devastating to the conscious of those caught up in the maelstrom, a cyclone that sweeps you off your feet and leaves you with nothing but broken and shattered dreams of unfulfilled truth and dreams. Attitude in the right hands is perplexingly cool, you don’t know you have been entangled in the wind and storm until you reach the apex of the motion and see beyond the horizon, for what is to be witnessed is power wielded with impervious brilliance.

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(369 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Terence Blacker: Misfit’s Jamboree. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Those that strive to fit in lose something of themselves in the process, they intentionally misplace the ability to celebrate a uniqueness to which their destiny wrote for them with kindness; to stand proud and waving a flag of individual groove at the Misfit’s Jamboree should be the ultimate face of expression in a world that promotes blandness and the lacking of talent above the sincere matchless exclusivity offered by the creatively astute. 

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(390 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Megan Walker: It’s A Cult. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Whilst social media has been a boon in many respects, it could be argued that at times we should be looking at its dangerous, tentacle like intrusion into our lives as a warning of what is to come, a foreshadowing where we are even more divided, placed into a credit like system for our beliefs and our unwillingness to be immersed into any system that screams loudly to our gut reaction that It’s A Cult.

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(331 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

California Irish: The Mountains Are My Friends. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Caught between the darkness of space and the fathomless depths of the ocean, we might consider the plainness of the land to be our faithful companion in life, but it is with a certain relish that we see the natural uplift of that horizon, one that brings us closer to the heavens without fearing the wrath of other’s gods and keeps us out of direct danger should the sea overwhelm the ground we walk on that will lead us to declare with a kind of poetic emotion that The Mountains Are My Friends.

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(495 words, 1 image, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Not Going Out. Series 14. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Bretton, Ray Fearon, Eileen O’Brien, Mike Wozniak, Angela McHale, Philip Correia, Laurence Howarth, Felicity Montague, Lu Corfield, Matthew Kelly, Ed Jones, Manpreet Bambra, Margret Cabourn-Smith, Diana Vickers, Dean Coulson.

No matter how good an addition the three children to the family dynamic in Not Going Out were, the opportunity for the show to reinvent itself for a third time and be the beacon for some truly quality farce is not only welcome, it is a necessity of a mainstream channel to highlight a programme capable of bringing the backbone of humour to life.

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