Bates Motel: Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell, Nicola Peltz, Ian Hart, Kennan Tracey, Ian Tracey, Aliyah O’Brien, Mike Vogel, Jenna Romanin, Brittney Wilson, Jere Burns, Emmalyn Estrada, Matthew Matdzij.

How do you top a film that routinely makes the top 100 lists of all time, how do you bring one of cinema’s scariest villains into the conscious of the television viewer without taking apart what made him such a compelling antagonist in the first place; the only way such a character as Norman Bates can return to the mind of the audience is to take him back to the very beginning, to the point where nature and nurture explore the madness within his teenage soul.

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(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: The Wolf Hunter Of Little Worthy. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Louise Jameson, Maimie McCoy, Mark Williams, Siobhan Redmond, Poppy Gilbert, Mollie Harris, Ferdinand Kingsley, Kojo Attah, Brian Bovell, Lee Byford, Kadell Herida, Ruth Horrocks, Sinead Matthews, Mat McCooey.

Every village has its myth, its local legend, and if doesn’t then it should take a leaf out of the playbook of the long running and popular series, Midsomer Murders.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Scoob! Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Will Forte, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, Zac Efron, Amanda Seyfried, Kiersey Clemons, Ken Jeong, Tracy Morgan, Frank Welker, Iain Armitage, McKenna Grace, Pierce Gagnon, Ariana Greenblatt, Simon Cowell, Christina Hendricks, Henry Winkler, Harry Perry, John DiMaggio, Kevin Heffernan, Ira Glass, Henry Kaufman, Maya Erskine, Billy West, Don Messick, Fred Tatasciore, Justina Machado, Kennedy Peil, John McDaniel, Ryan Folsey, Pam Coats, Tony Cervone, Adam Sztykiel, Alex Kauffman, Vanara Taing, Sarah Lancia, Maven Morgan, Eric Cowell Michael Kurinsky.

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

Antebellum. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jenelle Monae, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Arabella Landrum, Tongayi Xhirisa, T.C. Matherne, Robert Aramayo, Marque Richardson, London Boyce, Bernard Hocke, Dayna Schaaf, Gabourey Sidibe, Todd Voltz, Lily Cowles, Caroline Cole, Geraldine Glenn, Grace Junot, Victoria Blade.

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(509 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Damien. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bradley James, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Omid Abtahi, Barbara Hershey, David Meunier, Robin Weigert, Melanie Scrofano, Viv Moore, Scott Wilson, Brody Bover, Michael Therriault, Daniel Kash, Madison Oldroyd, Juan Carlos Velis, Sandrine Holt, Joe Doyle, Bola Aiyeola, James Cade, Fulvio Cecere, Sara Garcia, Bess Armstrong.

We are forever vigilant it seems against the pulse of evil, its persuasion, its power in rhetoric and belief, that we forget how some can be swayed, seduced into following the path that others fear to tread, how the blinding light of what appears to be reasonable at face value, has the potential to turn humanity into baseless creatures of the night.

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(504 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

The Fratellis, Half Drunk Under A Full Moon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The old ways are never gone, the initial love at first senses drawn are on no account ever forgotten, for after all the depth of feeling created by the first encounter are always there in the back of the mind, and are the ones that give rise to emotional, and perhaps spiritual, response.

However, we must evolve, out tastes change, our outlook begins to differ as we open those precious senses to other possibilities of expression, and as we grow with that love, so we must, by default or out of fidelity, appreciate that the object of our affection, has other things to say, and unfamiliar ways in which to communicate them.

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(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

The Lesson I Refused To Learn.

Two

plus two,

always had to equal

four…

There was no scope for imagination

in the certainty of this,

so my young mind

didn’t exactly rebel

at the rumoured threat

of attending Maths,

for like school uniforms

I thought

the instruction and lessons were a waste of my time…

but English,

now

there was a

craving,

because nonsense was to be admired,

and abstract and stream of consciousness

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(140 words, estimated 34 secs reading time)

The Terror. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Paul Ready, Adam Nagaitis, Ian Hart, Nive Nielsen, Ciaran Hinds, Christos Lawton, Matthew McNulty, David Walmsey, Liam Garrigan, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Stephen Thompson, Ronan Raftery, Mikey Collins, Edward Ashley, Chris Corrigan, Alistair Petrie, Charlie Kelly, Kevin Guthrie, Declan Hannigan, Anthony Flanagan, Aaron Jeffcoate, Greta Scacchi, Trystan Gravelle, Charles Edwards, John Lynch, Guy Falkner, Sian Brooke, Reed Diamond, William MacDonald, Johnny Issaluk, Richard Sutton, Tom Weston-Jones.

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(636 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

C.O.B, Spirit Of Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Some names are just too important for Time to let go. We might not have heard the designations or titles for an age, maybe not at all, after all we cannot be expected to know to everyone and what they have contributed to the betterment of humanity in their lifetime.

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(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Resident Alien: Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Alice Wetterlund, Corey Reynolds, Levi Fiehler, Judah Ptehn, Meredith Garretson, Elizabeth Bowen, Alex Barima, Keith Arbuthnot, Mandell Maughan, Kaylayla Raine, Diana Bang, Gary Farmer, Jenna Lamia, Deborah Finkel, Gracelyn Awad Rinke, Elvy, Ben Cotton, Sarah Podemski, Linda Hamilton, Terry O’ Quinn, Nathan Fillon.

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(552 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)