The Diary Of River Song: Series Three. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Kingston, Peter Davison, Frances Barber, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Sophia Carr-Gomm, Ian Conningham, Jonathan Coote, Julia Hills, Joanna Horton, Teddy Kempner, Rosanna Miles, Leighton Pugh, Nina Toussaint-White, Issy Van Randwyck, Francesca Zoutewelle.

What a Time it was and a time we had, but ultimately if you are not prepared to concentrate on all that time can offer, then it is likely to take advantage of you and send your mind to a place where it is reeling, unsure of what just happened, floundering at the prospect of how to respond, and watching inertly as the flow of Time passes you by.

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

Dawn Oberg, 2020 Revision. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The bookend serves its purpose, it is there to keep the words and descriptions of life, the important phrases of self-determination and inspiration, safe, rigid, unyielding to the passages of Time; it is there as an aid to keeping all that a person values and holds dear, focused, the attention of what they love, and perhaps at times, what they find most distasteful in the world.

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

Erasure, The Neon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rebooting love as a concept may sound eerie, unnerving, cold, in the modern era, the constant need for affirmation is upon us, the signs are there, the way forward is from the ashes of neglect comes further hardship, the fall of hope, the springboard of the eternal. It is in the signs provided the less than truthful, the ones who have a vested interest in keeping the supply of love rebounding that we have to be wary of.

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

Perry Mason: (2020). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham, Tatiana Maslany, John Lithgow, Gayle Rankin, Nate Corddry, Veronica Falcon, Jefferson Mays, Andrew Howard, Eric Lange, Robert Patrick, Stephen Root, Lili Taylor, Matt Frewer, Diarra Kilpatrick, David Wilson Barnes, Taylor Nichols, Aaron Stanford, Molly Ephraim, Gretchen Mol, Jenny O’Hara, Justin Kirk.

For television viewers especially, a character is already drawn before they have had chance to them. All of the great protagonists have a history that unless we allow ourselves to dig deeper than what one medium lays out in stone, we never fully understand their actual motives and drives later on, the one moment that made them who they are when we introduced to them in all their pomp and glory.

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(609 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

The Diary Of River Song; Series Two. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alex Kingston, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Sam Alexander, Justin Avoth, Ann Bell, Jessie Buckley, Alan Cox, Barnaby Edwards, Salome Haertel, Robert Hands, Paul Keating, Anna Maxwell Martin, Aaron Neil, Sara Powell, Robert Pugh, Gemma Saunders, Dan Starkey.

Short of Time and a world to save, as all good adventures are, the story is one that is complicated, that requires bravery, and the sadness of sacrifice; and yet with two doctors to play with, the eminent archaeologist and former psychopath, River Song, has The Unknown to deal with, and it is to be thanked she is able to find the Time.

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(479 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Sunjay, More Than A One Night. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It has almost become a cliche of its own making, the lockdown, our times concentrated on finding ways to express ourselves without exposing the soul to danger, the mind to harm, the flesh to the invisible barbs hiding in the sunlight; we seek a connection with a deeper and more substantial meaning than just the quick peck on the cheek from life, the thumbs up from a distance and the instant relay of communication from the modern mobile phone; in short we need, in fact we should insist, that life means More Than A One Night Stand.

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(394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Barry Briercliffe, Love Will Find A Way. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Love Will Find A Way, and whilst it might seem there are far too many obstacles in the way for such emotion to maintain a clear sight of its target, there is nothing that cannot be overcome by the persistence of devotion, friendship and affection; nothing that is pure and honest anyway.

It is to honesty that we must endeavour to be seen in the eyes of others, the false dawn of a thousand proposals are nothing more than sieges upon the rocks of falsehood, and to that end, Love stands no chance, love is thwarted even before it has the opportunity to hoist the sails and be done with such distractions as Helen of Troy.

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(341 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

The Herron Brothers, Bouncing Down The Road. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Whilst a comic group might have prepared you for the moment with the words, “And now for something completely different“, to hear a spring on the step of a song where you might not have expected one, will no doubt catch you by surprise, and it is rare thought, a beautiful notion that no matter how much you may feel you know an artist, how in depth your mind has gotten underneath their words and pulse, that they can still leave you dancing to a different beat, that they will have you Bouncing Down The Road with a spiral smile all over your face.

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(287 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Joana Ribeiro, Olga Kurylenko, Jose Luis Ferrer, Ismael Fritschi, Juan Lopez-Tagle, William Miller, Will Keen, Jason Watkins, Paloma Bloyd, Oscar Jaenda, Sonia Franco, Jose Aser Gimenez, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Viveka Rytzner, Alberto Jo Lee, Bruno Sevilla, Stellan Skarsgard, Olga Kurylenko, Jordi Molla, Jorge Calvo, Juan Machin, Inma Navarro.

If you could attain immortality for effort and striving through the minefield of adversity, then Terry Gilliam, quite rightly, will live forever.

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(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)