The Great. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Sacha Dhawan, Charity Wakefield, Gwilym Lee, Adam Godley, Douglas Hodge, Belinda Bromilow, Bayo Gbadmosi, Florence Keith-Roach, Danusia Samal, Sebastian De Souza, Louis Hynes, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Jamie Demetriou, Christophe Tek, Srewart Scudamore, Alistair Green, Jordan Kagaba, Charlie Price, Blake Harrison, Richard Pyros, Abraham Popoola, Asheq Aktar, Ezra Faroque Khan, Miles Jupp, John Sessions, Freddie Fox.

History is always in perspective, what one historian insists is gospel truth, another will refute and explain in such a way that all that we know is foolish and wrong.

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(500 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: We Need To Talk About Doreen. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Joy McAvoy, Sharon Rooney, Shelley Conn, Kat Ronney, Maya Coates, Tomos Gwynfryn-Evans, John Thomson, Natalie Gumede, George Watkins, Felipe Bejarano, Andrew Rothney, Carl Andersson, Allegra Marland, James Murray, Jack Riddiford, Lily Sacofsky, Vincent Moisy.

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(612 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

The Silencing. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis, Zahn McClarnon, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Lisa Cromerty, Leland Assinewai, Kayla Dumont, Shaun Smyth, Jason Jazrawy, Brielle Robillard, Melanie Scrofano, Charlotte Lindsay Marron, Patrick Garrow, Mark Charles Cowling, Heather Stevenson, Tiahra Tulloch, Danielle Ryan, Caleb Ellsworth-Clark, Josh Cruddas. 

We have learned through hundreds of years of written storytelling, and thousands of years of oral narrative, that the woods and forests, whilst beautiful to look at, hold many secrets, untold dangers, and creatures that hunt for the sheer exhilaration of the chase, and to feed on those unsuspecting souls who pay no heed to the warnings, or are clouded by the romanticism that has filled their heads of the beauty in the trees.

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(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

WandaVision. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn, Teyonah Parris, Josh Stamberg, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, Evan Peters, David Payton, David Lengel, Amos Glick, Selena Anduze, Julian Hilliard, Debra Jo Rupp, Jett Klyne, Asif Ali, Ithamer Enriquez, Emma Caulfield Ford, Alan Heckner, Zac Henry.

It is fair to insist beyond unreasonable debate that the two Avengers’ films, Infinity War and Endgame, were such behemoths, both in terms of box office performance and providing the type of thrill that has rarely been captured inside a cinema, that it might be suggested by some that no matter what Marvel put out in Phase Four of their ongoing pursuit of graphic novel turned visual entertainment illustrious dominance, it has already reached its zenith.

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

The Witches (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Octavia Spencer, Anne Hathaway, Chris Rock, Jahzir Bruno, Stanley Tucci, Brian Bovell, Joseph Zinvebma, Josette Simon, Jonathan Livingstone, Miranda Sarfo Peprah, Ashanti Prince-Asafo, Lunga Skosana, Vivienne Acheampong, Ken Nwosu, Arnaud Adrian, Charles Edwards, Morgana Robinson, Codie-Lei Eastwick, Sobowale Antonio Bamgbose, Orla O’Rourke, Eurdice El-Etr, Ana-Maria Maskell, Eugenia Caruso, Angus Wright, Cyril Nri.

To compare like with like is only human, and whilst art is not a competition, it cannot be dismissed when holding in your thoughts two versions of a much loved and admired source material to which both versions claim to be authentic and with the spirit of the author in their production.

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

Mathieu Boogaerts, Boogaerts En Anglais. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In any walk of life, the hardest everyday occurrence to overcome is the language barrier, even for those who profess to speak the same mother tongue can often misinterpret the smallest act of communication, it is how hostilities begin, it is how wars start, and how suspicions are raised; the way we look at someone and then judge them for the way they speak, the local dialect they use, the words they offer in love and in violence,  are always one that can be misunderstood, misconstrued and forever lost to time.

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(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Sananda Maitrey, Pandora’s Playhouse. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Pandora has received, perhaps unjustly, a bad rap from the lovers of myth and the historians of alternative creation, her name stirs images of the woman who bestowed her gifts upon the world and watched as all the ills that flew out of the box inflicted havoc and misery on all who lived, leaving only Hope as the saving grace for Humanity to hold onto their fingers grasping at the air it circled in, not realising that Hope often is the vulture, the carrion of all that remains in the heart.

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(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Visions Of Albion. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A truth of joint expression is that the outcome must be observed and felt to be greater than if voiced alone; to fail to do so is not in keeping with the idea and dream of harmony, but it is often the case that the collapse of lofty ideal is not in the pursuit, but in the minds of those who are not privy to the vision offered, or they ignore the passion at play as the realm is sewn together.

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(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Spontaneous. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Katherine Langford, Charlie Plummer, Yvonne Orji, Hayley Law, Piper Perabo, Rob Huebel, Chris Shields, Marlowe Percival, Laine MacNeil, Clive Holloway, Doralynn Mui, Kaitlyn Bernard, Jared Ager-Foster, Mellany Barros, Chelah Horsdal, Luvia Petersen, Jarrett Carlington, Peter Bundic, Bzhaun Rhoden, Braeden Shrimpton, Eva Day.

A film should not have to rely on age or a viewer’s monocled taste to be seen, and perhaps admired for what it brings to the screen, like any art form the more people that see it, the more perhaps life can be understood, the snapshot of thought is not what we ignore, but what we are willing to embrace.

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(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: The Man Who Wasn’t There. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Rob Brydon, Martin Kemp, Cathy Tyson, Rupert Graves, Patsy Kensit, Victor Oshin, Femi Nylander, Vince Leigh, Jack Riddiford, Lily Sacofsky, James Murray, Jonty Stephens, Mia McCallum.

How your opinion can change is to be thought of as a sign of growth, of maturity, or maybe it is just that in the first introduction the feeling of being underwhelmed couldn’t be ignored on the other side that they upped their game to make sure you understood perfectly well that they took the criticism on board and became more in tune with the image they wanted to portray.

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(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)