Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: David Tennant, Jane Slavin, Joe Sims, John Banks, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards, Avita Jay, Kevin McNally, Leighton Pugh, Blake Ritson, Nina Toussaint-White.
It is often a surprise that for all the talk of family in Doctor Who, the thought of blood relations meeting the Doctor in different incarnations has never been truly explored.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kirsten Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Lilly Aspell, Amr Waked, Kristoffer Polaha, Lucian Perez, Stuart Milligan, Shane Attwooll, Lilly Aspell, Lynda Carter.
A wish is humanity’s way of avoiding the hard work it takes to make a dream come true; the immediate hit of gratification in problem solving or gaining advantage is there as a get out clause for the thought it takes to embrace the struggle and see the objective from all sides, to take every possible move into consideration.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The nature of our times dictates that we believe we have more freedom than we have ever had, and yet we have become more entrenched in the cage that keeps apart from what is important, the open spaces, wide, reliable, unfailing in consistency; and instead, we cling to the incongruous and absurd, the unsuitable and ill-fitting straight jacket that locks us up securely, and we praise its ability to do so.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
In a time of uncertainty, the act of conviction, faith, and inevitability will carry weight where those who profess to forgone conclusions, supposition, and rumour, will fear to tread.
The sceptics in the world have A Whole Lot of Nothin’ to prove except their own downfalls and the words they sometimes choke upon, for nothin’ ain’t worth a thing, unless it has the swing, the grove and the power of illumination in a world that seems hell bent on finding ways for us all to sit and worry ourselves to death in the dark.
Vinegar drenched,
and salt infused,
eighteen months of food sobriety
in the face of pandemic and staple dinners
gone
in one
beautiful, grease kissed
moment
that saw proper fish and chips
fill my plate.
Ian D. Hall 2021
I tugged and pulled at the landing and stairs carpet,
threadbare, its fabric skin, hanging loosely
and unsurprisingly
it gave way easily, knowing its time was short,
revealing trapped dust of a decade’s footsteps,
up and down, occasionally falling, tumbling,
broken neck avoided by short distance
between point a and b…
The remains swept up, cleaned down,
a vacation in a vacuum and then in the bin,
to live and decompose in a thousand years
in plastic sweat, much like the carpet I had
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Ben Miller, Emma Naomi, Barney White, Sarah Woodward, Juliet Aubrey, Frances de la Tour, Andy Gathergood, Douglas Reith, Martin Swabey, Rupert Turnbull, Ben Onwukwe, Lizzie Back, Barbara Verbergt, Keith Dunphy, Lucy Anna Richardson, Robert Cavanah, Kammy Darweish.
The detective with a unique quirk is nothing new to the overwhelming amount of television programmes dedicated to the genre; even those who assist the police have their own routines and ways which can, if written with care, make them stand out in such a way that the public takes to them, and watch them become, if not national treasures, then at least interesting enough to warrant their inclusion in the television watchers weekly habitual intake.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: David Tennant, Jane Slavin, Joe Sims, Juliet Aubrey, Nicholas Briggs, Maria Teresa Creasey, Mark Gatiss, Chris Jarman, Kevin McNally, Gemma Whelen.
Time has a habit of bringing us back to that place we think we have left behind forever.
The Doctor, especially in his tenth incarnation, has lived through the emotional turmoil of losing companions, his people, and at times, his own perspective on the Universe; pushed through time and sometimes not able to withstand the pressure facing him from all sides. He might win, he might save the day, but it feels like a loss, a devastating failure in which his actions to save Gallifrey in a previous life still echo around him like marbles in a tin can.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Eric Bana, Genevieve O’Reilly, Kier O’Donnell, John Polson, Julia Blake, Bruce Spence, William Zappa, Matt Nable, James Frenchville, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Joe Klocek, BeBe Bettencourt, Claude Scott-Mitchell, Sam Corlett, Miranda Tapsell, Daniel Frederiksen, Eddie Baroo, Renee Lim, Martin Dingle Wall, Francine McAsey, Dawn Klingberg, Nick Farnell, Rosanna Lockhart Tommy Nable, Ryder Hudson, Maude Davey, Audrey Moore, Jarvis Mitchell.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
An E.P. will afford the listener a greater slice of time in which to become acquainted with the music than a single release will; the only downside is that if the first track does not grab them, then unlike the weighty option of the vinyl grandparent of the 12-inch album, the chances are that the listener will slide the music into the obscure pile and move onto something else quickly.