It may look spectacular,
The first-time roll
of the – count them and weep – five sixes
that make up the thrill of Yahtzee,
but what does that matter if all you roll
afterwards is the odd
double four,
forever chasing the large straight
or the four of a kind,
shaking your hand, blowing
the dice, willing them
to give you the thrill once more of a five
that leads to a hundred…
forgetting that the win is based
partly on making sure you score
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
In times of adversity, even the smallest gesture can bring about the greatest change, and a voice given to sincerity, of honour, will give hope to many, and even if the subject matter at hand is one of concern, of clenched fist and tears in the eyes, there is still hope to be found.
It is only natural in the times we live in that we have to delay certain plans, to put back the clock on experience and release, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop living, to hold back on dreams or desires, and art, for the multitude and majority, is the place where their own existence on the planet is made concrete, which gives them a reason to be.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
You could take a straw poll of your friends and family and come up with varying degrees of answers, from the perplexing, through to the bizarre and on to the thoughtfully played out, of how dreams are meant to be observed, studied, and even relieve the soul of the burden they may carry.
Dreaming is such an intrinsic part of human existence, and yet we pay it less regard than chasing the product of those visions, and the benefit of introspection, of interpretation, is lost, allowed to fade into nothing.
Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 8.5/10
Cast: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle, Kenneth Cranham, Celyn Jones, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Beata Pozniak, Fenella Woolgar, Martin Bishop, John Edmondson, Michalina Olszanska, Martin Hugh Henley, Olena Leonenko, Edward Wolstenholme, Marcin Czarnik, Barry Mulkerns, Matthew Marsh.Mr. Jones. Film Review.Cast: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle, Kenneth Cranham, Celyn Jones, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Beata Pozniak, Fenella Woolgar, Martin Bishop, John Edmondson, Michalina Olszanska, Martin Hugh Henley, Olena Leonenko, Edward Wolstenholme, Marcin Czarnik, Barry Mulkerns, Matthew Marsh.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong, Douglas Hodge, Ralph Paterson, Linda Emond, Ilia Volok, E.J. Bonilla.
There is nobody better equipped to destroy you than yourself. The ones who hate you, fuelled often by an unfathomable amount of logic, jealousy and rage will often leave you bleeding and broken on the doorstep of history. However, it is our own minds, our psyche and fear that will see us finish the job. Broken and foiled is one thing, but our own self-doubt, our willingness to acknowledge our insecurity and self-loathing, is enough to defeat us completely.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The journey is judged by the beauty and response of its reflection, not by the speed in which it is undertaken. The blur of time is such that we as individuals find that we spend so much of our life trying to understand the appeal of the light, that we forget our presence is often demanded in the Shadowland, the place between darkness and the illuminated, where we can act as guides, as voices of reason to those who have wandered too far into the realm of obscure endings and rattling conclusions.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
How you spend time when you forced to be apart from all that you love, all that deeply care for, can be enlightening, illuminating… cathartic, and whilst it is enough to survive, that is important to endure the single punishment of isolation, the fear of collective worry that comes in the shape of humanity’s damnation, to strive beyond those Quarantine Blues and produce art, to seek guidance and passion from a place outside of the normal parameters is to arguably deal a personal hand of favour to others, to give them a piece of your soul so that they have their own blues lessened.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Timely is the country that listens, blessed is the country that learns, whether it is from its mistakes, or from its humility in victory, a country that finds ways to be conciliatory and proactively willing to offer the hand of friendship to its enemy, can look itself in the mirror and say, we also too can add to civilisation and honour.
It is honour and a special breed of insightfulness in observation that brings Darlin’ Brando’s latest recording, Also, Too, to the public’s attention, an album of musical glory and appetite, but one that also speaks volumes of how a low point in life can bring the change needed to gain a more enlightened perspective.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
When the joint is jumping, the heart follows suit, but it is the soul that is in command of the timing and the beat. The feast of music is enjoyed, the sound is respected, and it is down to soul, that inner being craving both peace and flavour, that cooks and brings fire to the very core of all who allow themselves to be captured by the sense of the exotic, and the rhythm of the mysterious and the mass musical effect.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall, MyAnna Buring, Mark Addy, Annabel Scholey, Nigel Lindsay, Stella Gonet, Kiera Thompson, Duncan Pow, Darren Boyd, Stephanie Gil, William Houston, Emma Stansfield, Jonathon Slinger, Andrew Brooke, Johnny Harris, Wayne Swann, Faye McKeever, Melanie Gutteridge, Jill Winternitz, Michael Schaeffer, Ron Cook, Paul Popplewell, Clare Burt, Naomi Yang, Amber Aga.
In television drama days gone by serials such as The Salisbury Poisonings would have been given the same treatment as that which saw the nuclear torn British mainland of Threads, or the plague-pandemic ravaged world of Survivors make headlines for their vision of a society torn apart by humanity’s absolute belief in its destiny, and the shock of hubris when it all comes crumbling down.