The Damn Truth, Now Or Nowhere. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

“If not now, then when”, the rallying cry behind every demonstration worth its salt, every call for freedom to pushed even further away from the haves and the questionable keepers of certain dubious traditions that maintain the status quo in their favour; it is to the ones who live just under the surface that arguably we should look to when seeking the exposure of the damned truth, for they are the ones who live within reach of both levels and can empathise with those underneath, and have the righteous fire and the combined learning of their trade to make a difference.

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(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Labi Siffre, My Song. Album Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

To take a day in which to listen to the very beat of a soul and another person’s existence, is arguably one of the great privileges of our own lives. To put aside our own ego and revel in the time between heartbeats as we find common ground, the unexpected, the deliberate observation and a truth of another’s time here on Earth, is behold and consider our own actions, to almost stop the grind of Time’s relentless pursuit on age and thinking.

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

London Grammar, Californian Soil. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Sensuality is often coupled with a sense of joy, the conclusion of pleasure and rapture in knowing that you are bold in your charm, that you are seen as desirable enough to bring your sexual freedom to the arms of another human being.

What if though, sensuality was in fact the acceptance of melancholic thought patterns and the truth behind the open soul of benevolent love, that by exposing the mind as being as naked and vulnerable as the body in the grip of passionate encounters, we become more in tune with the physical reality of the universe that carnality is for the lustful, but that the fragility of the mind is for the true believers of absolute love and the authority of sexual confidence.

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

The Offspring, Let The Bad Times Roll. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The die is loaded against us, for whatever humanity does now will surely not be enough to stop the rot of our physical environment’s destruction, and for own spirituality to betray us, to let us wallow in the despair of the imagined realms of ownership, greed and possession. It is a wonder that a person in a freshly laundered tuxedo, holding a cigar tightly between forefinger and thumb, and sporting a cynical, but meaningful smile, has not as yet picked up a megaphone and declared to one and all with a voice that inspires the carney and the ringmaster, “Let The Bad Times Roll”.

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(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Promising Young Woman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Carey Mulligan, Adam Brody, Ray Nicholson, Sam Richardson, Timothy E. Goodwin, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, Alli Hart, Loren Paul, Scott Aschenbrenner, Bo Burnham, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Alison Brie, Gabriel Oliva, Bryan Lillis, Francisca Estevez, Lorna Scott, Connie Britton, Casey Adams, Vince Lozano, Molly Shannon, Max Greenfield, Chris Lowell, Mike Horton, Steve Monroe, Angela Zhou, Austin Talynn Carpenter. 

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(580 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

The Blackout: Invasion Earth. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Aleksey Chadov, Pyotr Fyodorov, Svetlana Ivanova, Lukerya Ilyashenko, Kseniya Kutepova, Konstantin Lavronenko, Filipp Avdeev, Artyom Markaryan, Sergey Godin, Artyom Tkachenko, Yuriy Borisov, Maksim Emelyanov, Svetlana Miloradova.

If you believe Hollywood, or even British science fiction television serials, you might well consider that alien life forms would only ever deem that the United States of America and the U.K. were viable places for alien invasion, that the rest of the world, just is not the right place for first contact, or for the end of humanity.

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(530 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Fringe: Series 1-5. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Michael Cerveris, Kirk Acevedo, Seth Gabel, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald, Marl Valley, Michael Kopsa, Lily Pilblad, Ari Graynor, Eugene Lipinski, Jared Harris, Sebastian Roche, Shaun Smyth, Kevin Corrigan, Georgina Haig, Meghan Markle.

Cult Science-Fiction television is arguably, in its own way, far more satisfying a pastime in which to get the brain moving and stirring the what-if of imagination than by being sucked into the daily routine of gameshows, celebrity gossip and the intrigue of the soap opera digest.

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(642 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

Too Close. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Emily Watson, Denise Gough, Thalissa Teixeira, Karl Johnson, Jamie Sives, Risteard Cooper, Eileen Davies, Chizzy Akudolu, Thea Barrett, Nina Wadia, Henry Helm, Isabelle Mullally, Ariyon Bakare, Madeleine Demetriou, Jackie Clune, Adrian Hood, Islah Abdur-Rahman, Grace Calder, Paul Chahidi, Stephen McCole, Rina Fatania, Delainey Hayles, Nathalie Armin, Joan Iyiola, Barbara Drennan, Ria Knowles, Gina Fillingham, Alex Hughes, James Doherty.

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(494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Supergirl: Series 5. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Katie McGrath, Jesse Rath, Nicole Maines, Azie Tesfai, Andrea Brooks, Julie Gonzalo, Staz Nair, LaMonica Garrett, David Harwood, Jon Cryer, Phil LaMarr, Carl Lumbly, Mitch Pileggi, Cara Buono, Brenda Strong, Sean Astin, Jeremy Jordan, Henry Czerny, Chris Wood, Sam Witwer, Odette Annable.

Fighting on all fronts, opening new worlds, only to see them collide and burn, that is the fate of us all, so it would seem. Yet through the eyes of many, we are given insight into how super we can become, that when the true moment of possible destruction is upon us, we can fly in the face of fear and look upon ourselves as something more than heroic, we can be genuinely human.

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(568 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Bates Motel: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thierot, Olivia Cooke, Nicola Peltz, Nestor Carbonell, Michael O’Neill, Michael Eklund, Ian Tracey, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Michael Varten, Rebecca Creskoff, Kathleen Robertson, Kenny Johnson, Matthew Mandzij, Michael Rogers, Francis X. McCarthy, Agam Darshi, Aliyah O’Brien, Robert Moloney, Vincent Gale, Gillian Barber, Lini Evans, Brendan Fletcher, Veena Sood, Sarah Gray, Andrew Airlie, John Cassini, Keegan Connor Tracy.

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(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)