Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Kiera Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Loreece Harrison, Suki Waterhouse, Clara Rosager, Lesley Manville, Eileen O’Higgins, Laural Lefkow, Amanda Lawrence, Samuel Blenkin, Nicholas Nunn, Phyllis Logan, Daniel Tiplady, Kajsa Mohammar, John Heffernan, Miles Jupp.
Liverpool Sound and Vison Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amir Wilson, Andrew Scott, Kit Connor, Ariyon Bakare, Will Keen, Ruta Gedmintas, Jade Anouka, Sean Gilder, Simone Kirby, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Terence Stamp, Joe Tandberg, Scope Dirisu, Sophie Okenedo, Lindsay Duncan, Jane How, Brian Protheroe, Angus Wright, James McAvoy.
If you are going to be distracted from the on-going torture to which nature and time have placed humanity in 2020, then you should find solace in the fantasy epics being produced; some against some of the most unforeseen pressures to have ever been witnessed by the small screen.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lolly Adefope, Matthew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond, Katy Wix, Sutara Gayle, Leon Herbert, Samantha Pearl, Timmika Ramsey.
There is a train of thought that the Christmas special of any comedy is meant to be one that goes even further to provide the laughter that we need to put us in the festive mood; like a drug it is there to warp our perception of what the season is actually for, that to be jolly and full of happiness that it makes the year’s end a giddy affair, one of unashamed and continuous enjoyment, that makes the dark evenings one of absolute light.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields, Charlie Russell, Dave Hearn, Bryony Corrigan, Nancy Zamit, Greg Tannahill, Chris Leask.
In extraordinary times we are shown the way forward, or at least the way to continue what we do best with alterations to the way we produce it.
One of the television comedy hits of 2020 has surely to be the team behind The Goes Wrong Show, a team honed by theatre, and offered to a larger audience in the same time-led fashion that saw some of the greatest stars of vaudeville become legends of early cinema, and to whom the slapstick mayhem is as every bit as demanding and superbly presented as anything you would want to watch today.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: David Mitchell, Gemma Whelan.
Satire begs no mercy, and when it is aimed quite rightly at those to whom are pompous enough to believe they are untouchable, then the joke is made sweet, it pricks the conscious and deflates the ego to the point where rarely does the subject recover from the blow inflicted.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, David Harewood, Calista Flockhart, Laura Benanti, Dean Cain, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Peter Facinelli, Brit Morgan, Glenn Morshower, Grant Gustin, Emma Caulfield, Italia Ricci, Helen Slater.
Whilst Marvel has done a sterling job in promoting the female superheroes of its comic book archive, it perhaps has not done quite enough to capture the same feeling of warmth and inclusion generated by the television shows that house the most valued possessions of it main rival, D.C. Comics.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Claes Bang, Olga Kurylenko, Brian Cox, Assaad Bouab, Alice Krige, Caroline Goodall, Shalisha James-Davis, Litiana Biutanaseva, Lilibet Biutanseva, Duncan Doff, Maroussia Frank, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Hannah van der Westhuvysen, Agri Scott, Kirsten Davies, Max Frankel, Emily Heyworth, Kaycee Fernandes.
The worst of nightmares to affect any parent is the loss of their child. That sense of despair is heightened when they don’t know how the baby died, that they might not have been able to say goodbye before putting them in the ground and dealing with their grief, separately or together.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph Millson, Jack Kane, Arturo Muselli, Carolina Carlsson, Tam Williams, Richard Ashton, Ross O’Hennessy, Cameron Jack, Fabienne Piolini-Castle, Alexandru Roza, James Longshore, Vlad Radescu, Edourd Philipponnat, Anisoara Doroftei, Daniel Iordan, Silvia Gisca, Fanel Ursu, Tomas Otto Ghela, Diana Vladu, Mihai Verbintschi,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
We live in interesting times, that perhaps is a curse, a sign that we have taken so much for granted, that we have forgotten that hope is there to provide comfort, not illusion, not the sense of seeing life as a desire to have it all, but to be content with what we have, and learn that what walks away was perhaps never meant to be.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The pedestal to which one of the Godfathers of British Pop has always been levered up to a point where he has become, not through his own design, a musical idol that is untouchable, a human being to whom the narrative has often been inscribed by others that he cannot do wrong, that all he put before the audience works. It is upon this grand pedestal that Paul McCartney has been put, the humble drive and beautiful spark of musicianship and humanity has almost, like the other members of The Beatles, been encased in gold, not allowed to corrode, to show fragility or the odd blemish in the studio.