Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Alex Kingston, John Banks, Charlotte Christie, Oliver Dimsdale, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alexander Vlahos.
One of the peculiarities of long running television serials is that inevitably there will be a character thrust into the limelight to whom the viewers in their masses will take too and demand more of, even perhaps at the expense of the main person to whom the story revolves around.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Billy Crystal, Ben Schwartz, Grace Gummer, Eloise Mumford, John Behlmann, David Castaneda, Kevin Dunn, Debra Monk, Nate Corddry, Caitlin McGee, Leonard Ouzts, Nathan James, Hassan Johnson, Nick Sadhnani, Kelsey Reinhardt, Wade Allain-Marcus, Charlie Hankin, Tami Sagher, Marilyn Seide, Mike Carlsen, Kate Arrington, Jill Hennessy, Connor Ratliff, Kevin Kevin, Glenn Kubota, Joan Porter, Jackie Sanders, Jim Santangeli, Chris LaPanta, Michael Kostroff.
We meet people for a specific reason, we might not change their lives, but we might give them hope, courage and perhaps the understanding they have been missing from a family member who no longer talks to them; despite that person’s best efforts.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Toby Kebbell, Penelope Mitchell, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Stephen Rider, Melissa Bolona, Beth Broderick, Jason Patric, Lew Temple, John Newberg, Dan Southworth, Zander Essex, Gianni Capaldi, Elana Krausz, Jessica Ambuehl, Kate August Lim, Christianne Case, Rich Williams, Hayden O’Connell, Sienna Farall, Tyler Madden, Dallas Edwards, Louis Robert Thompson, Catherine Kamei, Meredith Crutcher, Kiley B. Moore, Kelly Owens.
The possessed never have it easy, especially when the Devil finds a way to hitch a ride in the soul!
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Louise Jameson, Ian Hallard, Robert Maloney, Timothy Watson, Joannah Tincey.
It is with good reason that as a species are both repelled and somehow fascinated by the threat of nuclear war; there is after all no middle ground when it comes to the shadow that has loomed large over us since the reports and pictures came from Japan of the first explosions over Nagasaki and Hiroshima. We are caught in the fire of expectant and imminent death, so much so that until the threat is finally dismantled and the last remains of the sickness that guides the ultimate force of humanity’s desire for destruction is a long distant memory, we shall forever be enthralled by what damage it can cause to our planet.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Winona Ryder, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Anthony Boyle, Michael Kostroff, David Krumoltz, Azhy Robertson, Caleb Mills, Jacob Laval, John Turturro, Ben Cole, Kristen Sieh, Steven Maier, Billy Carter, Caroline Kaplan, Eleanor Reissa, Philip Hoffman, Graydon Yosowitz, Ed Moran, Douglas Schneider, Bob Leszcak, Lee Tergesan, David Pittu, Russell Posner, David Greenspan, Keilly McQuail, Andrew Polk, Zach McNally, Kimberly Faye Greenberg, Orest Ludwig, Jason Liebman.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it…” effortless words of wisdom framed by the writer Charles Bukowski, and given even greater illumination and ferocity by the blues man Walter Trout in his latest album, Ordinary Madness.
The world is not just a foolish place, but it stands aloof from the rest of the universe, revelling in its own lunacy, driven by jesters and clowns, misleading and double-talking buffoons, it is no wonder that we perhaps feel crowded in our thoughts, almost helpless in our actions, and yet there is always help, the figure offering ordinary madness, the proposal that refuses to acknowledge anything other than the fact that we are extraordinary; that madness is just a by-product of the beauty we can appreciate in others.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, David Collings, Mark Gatiss, Angela Bruce.
Time is forever decaying, what might be considered a moment of absolute endeavour by humanity in one moment, slowly erodes to the point where all that follows becomes ordinary, routine, and then, like everything that was once painstakingly spectacular becomes mundane, predictable, safe.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
In the eye of the tornado the peace of our existence can be found, the silence in amongst the maelstrom, the seduction of the moment’s influential still is to feel resistant to the tide that is overwhelming all around, the swirl, the cloud, the rampaging dust of our times; instead we can lay back, for a while, for a brief respite, see the sweetness peace on offer, and say We Like It.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Sam Kelly, Joannah Tincey, David Horovitch.
Our greatest curse as a human being is surely that of nostalgia, the memory we wrap in gold and sepia, the melancholy we hold up as the epitome of our life on Earth; doomed to go over the lines forever, condemned by the failures of our time, nostalgia in all its forms is the blissful high before the regretful and terminal low.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Blair McDonough, Anna Skellern, Lisa Bowerman, Patience Tomlinson, Clare Calbraith, Duncan McInnes, Angela Bruce, David Warner, Susannah Harker.
Change, even in the art of the bluff, can be one that leaves a chill ready to descend down the spine, the sense that the transformation you are about to encounter is going to be too much to either bare, or which will leave you with feelings of disappointment wrapped up in the embrace of the immediate let down.