Bad Boys For Life. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Paola Nunez, Kate del Castillo, Nicky Jam, Joe Pantoliano, Jacob Scipio, Theresa Randle, DJ Khaled, Happy Anderson, Bianca Bethune, Dennis Greene, Michael Bay, Gissette Valentin, Rose Bianco, Edelia Merida, Jasmin Lawrence, Shacai O’Neal, Carlos Guerrero, Massi Furlan, Chick Bernhard, Jennifer Badger, Jeff J.J. Authors, Keith Wheeler, Brandi Cohen, Jay Amor, Yessenia Hernandez, Anthony Molinari, Ivo Nandi.

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

Doctor Who: Revolution Of The Daleks. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 7/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, John Barrowman, Chris North, Harriet Walter, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Nathan Armarkwei Laryea, Helen Anderson, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Sharon D. Clarke.

You cannot knock the style or the sentiment of certain ideas when they have been placed upon the screen; especially in a time when CGI can put into practice the structure of the author and the imagination of the crew. However, in wanting to declare a revolution one must expect casualties, one person or more will be sacrificed to the winds of war, and many will take a step back and ask if the end justifies the means.

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(595 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Peggy James, Guardian Angel. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The paint laid down during 2020 may have begun to dry, but that doesn’t mean the building work is finished, if anything 2021 will see the Wisconsin born and southwest raised Peggy James take further action in her affirming project, in building another story to which her house of ideas and music can be sheltered from the storms, and to which can be seen as a positive influence by all who venture through her front door, who seek change and positivity in a world Hell-bent on self-destruction.

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

Not Going Out: Christmas Special (2020). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Bretton, Bobby Ball, Deborah Grant, Geoffrey Whitehead, Hugh Dennis, Abigail Cruttenden.

We have all been there at some point or another, the forced bonhomie of another party in which we would rather be anywhere else, but because of tradition, because of friendship, because of love, we paint a smile on our face and join in the games, we reminisce about old times and we talk loudly of the good times and plans to be executed in the year to come. The sadness that we feel, the losses we have suffered, the joy that was displaced, is turned on itself, that by Not Going Out, we are placing ourselves in the path of internal review, that the close quarters reveal our inner most thoughts in a way that betray the hopes of the clock ticking down to the inevitable zero.

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(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Black Narcissus. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 7/10

Cast: Gemma Arterton. Aisling Franciosi, Nila Aalia, Patst Ferran, Rosie Cavaliero, Gianni Gonsalves, Soumil Malla, Alessandro Nirvola, Wayne Llewellyn, Dipika Kunwar, Chaneil Kular, Jim Broadbent, Diana Rigg, Aahish Shrestha, Gina McKee, Prabal Sonam Ghising, Komal Ghambole, Kulvinder Ghir, Charlie Maher, Karen Bryson, Lauren Okadigbo, Sabin Basnet.

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(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Tin Star: Liverpool. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tim Roth, Genevieve O’Reilly, Abigail Lawrie, Tanya Moodie, Kerrie Hayes, Joanne Whalley, Ian Hart, Neve McIntosh, Andrew Schofield, Neil Fitzmaurice, Lindzi Germain, Michael Starke, John McGrellis, Emma Bispham, Leanne Best, Percelle Ascot, Kaitlyn Akinpelumi, Julia Carlile, Warren Donnelly, Mark Womack.

Every story has a beginning, every action has its initial spur, and the roads taken don’t lead to Rome, nor do they really lead anywhere else…except back to Liverpool, the place which Jung called “The pool of life”, and for Jack, Angela and Anne, Liverpool is the one place where they should never go back to, where the roads are not paved with gold, but with regret, fear, and the damage inflicted.

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(588 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

Raised By Wolves. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim, Winta McGrath, Travis Fimmel, Niamh Algar, Jordan Loughran, Felix Jamieson, Ethan Hazzard, Aasiya Shah, Ivy Wong, Clayton Evertson, Loulou Taylor, Matias Varela, Susan Danford, Litha Bam, Garth Breytenbach, Anila van Rensburg, Shoko Yoshimura, Jenna Upton, Daniel Lasker, Avumile Qongoo, Nala Khumalo, Chris Fisher, Sienna Hurst, Tristan de Beer, Tanya van Graan, Tarryn Wyngaard, Kabelo Bouga Chalatsane, Cosmo Jarvis, Brendan Sean Murray, Adrian Schiller, Fadzai Simango, Carel Nel.

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(535 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Roald And Beatrix: The Tale Of The Curious Mouse. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Dawn French, Harry Tayler, Nina Sosanya, John Hannah, Jessica Hynes, Alison Steadman, Bill Bailey, Nick Mohammed, Rob Brydon, Mollie Holder, Reegan Davies, Rhys Parry Jones, Kevin Bishop, Kimberley Nixon.

It doesn’t matter when it happens, or perhaps even how, but to meet the one person outside of your family to whom your life from that moment is shaped by even the barest, smallest conversation, is a tale to which to inspire others.

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(563 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Cats. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Francesca Hayward, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Rebel Wilson, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Laurie Davidson, Naoimh Morgan, Danny Collins, Jason Derulo, Robbie Fairchild, Mette Towley, Daniela Norman, Jaih Betote, Larry Bourgeois, Laurent Bourgeois, Jonadette Carpio, Ray Winstone, Steven McRae, Taylor Swift.

There are so many ways in which you can believe you are creating magic on screen, and there are many ways in which that magic can turn sour if the act of hubris is not dealt with, not swallowed to the point where humility can be seen to tread the same boards as the pride you wish to feel; the sense of modesty you wish to convey in your vision.

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

Worzel Gummidge: Saucy Nancy. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Shirley Henderson, Vanessa Redgrave, Rosie Cavaliero, Steve Pemberton, India Brown, Warrick Brownlow-Pike, Thierry Wickens, Spencer Jones, Brian Blessed, The Unthanks, Daniel Copeland, Youssef Kerkour, Denise Mack, Francesca Mills, Christopher Patrick Nolan, Daniel Page, Jason Pennycooke, Tim Plester.

What was once lost, can often be returned to where it is needed, as long as people are willing enough to care about history and nature.

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