Peter Rabbit. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: James Corden, Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, Sam Neil, Margot Robbie, Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Debecki, Marianne Jean Baptiste, Sia, Fayssal Bazzi, Colin Moody, Christian Gazal, Ewan Leslie, Natalie Dew, Terenia Edwards, Gareth Davies, Vauxhall Jermaine, Tom Greaves, Alexandra Gluck, Taryn Gluck, Sam Haft, Sacha Horler, Will Reichelt, Alex Blias, Dave Lawson, Felix Williamson, Ming-Zhu Hii, Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, David Wenham.

Prodigal Son (Season One). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Payne, Michael Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Halston Sage, Aurora Pettineau, Frank Harts, Keiko Agena, Bellamy Young, Esau Pritchett, Kasian Wilson, Molly Griggs, Anna Eilinsfeld, Charlayne Woodard, Giuseppe Ardizzone, Dermot Mulroney.

The life of the murderer has always intrigued the armchair detective to the point where it can blind them to a truth when the presence of a serial killer becomes aware to them. There is after all a fundamental difference between a one off taking of life to that of wilfully continuing the senseless slaughter of people, and whilst murder should never be condoned, never be seen as anything abhorrent, the armchair detective and the scandal magazine readers almost salivate over every detail of the serial killer’s purpose and belief, forgetting that underneath it all, are the victims, the stories behind the death.

The Twilight Zone: You Might Also Like. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Gtretchen Mol, Greta Lee, Gil Bellows, Colleen Camp, Donna Dixon, Jordan Peele, George Takei, Karly Warkentin, Eric Halliburton, Tara Pratt, Johannah Newmarch, Emmett Lee Stang, Emilie Taylor, Connor Sage, Charlotte Kavanagh, Shevi Ryane, Oz Perkins, Kirk Thomas, David Coakley.

We have all said it, all perhaps thought it at some point or another, and some more than others, a throwaway line in which we enslave ourselves to consumerism, in which we slowly erode the soul and fill our homes with the useless and the impractical, “If I can buy that my life will be complete, if I possess that which is on offer, I will be happy“.

Writing Out Of Earshot.

Which was worse,

The American Army 

assault weapon thrust in face

outside of The Pentagon

in the dog days

of August 2003, the soldier

demanding to know what I was doing,

or the snipes of the personal

critic, the locust

chirping in my ear,

wondering how I spend

my time, which is rightfully mine

anyway.

It came perhaps late in life

the urge to shut the door

quietly,

not with drama,

not

Tarkus The Henge, Luna Park! Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Free thought, it is a priceless commodity to be able to utilise, to experience, to shape your own life, whilst hopefully offering a glimmer of spirit to anyone who watches you live your life for a while. Whilst thought should always be free, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t come without a bill to be paid, a payment in kind if certain political ideologies invade, infest, and desecrate the belief that the artist is not worth the same respect as anyone who strives away in the darkness before unveiling the light that inspires for all.

Early November Snow, Inspiration In Central Park.

By late afternoon

I felt it might snow.

The crisp chill air

that breathed silently in Central Park

became sullen

as the

drop in temperature caused

a fed-up call girl

to smirk at me

and turn a cold shoulder

at my faded glory park bench

companion and I.

Studiously ignoring each other,

he in the middle

of humming a tune, repeatedly to

himself

as random messages and inspiration

were pulled from the ether

Jonathan Markwood Hoo-Hah Conspiracy, Real Or Imagined. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There will always be those that see life as a strict application of black and white, they dismiss the abstract because as far as they are concerned there is only one way to exist and they will happily tell others that they need to get a real life, to be sensible, to be part of the machine; they believe that you can only be happy if you ignore the creative and the imagined, that to have a fantasy is a waste of time.

Emma (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Gemma Whelan, Bill Nighy, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart, Angus Imrie, Letty Thomas, Aiden White, Edward Davis, Myra McFadyen, Esther Coles, Suzy Bloom, Suzanne Toase, Nicholas Burns, Josh O’Connor, Johnny Flynn, Connor Dalton, Lucy Briers, Mia Goth, Anna Francolini, Connor Swinells, Christopher Godwin, Vanessa M. Owen, Isis Hainsworth, Hannah Stokely, Charlotte Weston, Max Toovey, Cecelia Jacob, Cody Gipson, Tabitha Coop, Juno Coop, Chloe Pirrie, Oliver Chris, Rose Shaloo, Amber Anderson, Callum Turner, Tanya Reynolds.

Brave New World. Television Review.

Liverpool sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Jessica Brown Findlay, Harry Lloyd, Nina Sosanya, Joseph Morgan, Kylie Bunbury, Sen Mitsuii, Hannah John-Kamen, Sophie McIntosh, Matthew Aubrey, Ed Stoppard, Kate Fleetwood, Stuart Walker, Ann Akin, Sophia Naziris, Sally Kennington, Demi Moore, Naomi Yang, Lara Peake, Ian Whyte, Rich Hall.

Doctor Dolittle (2020). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Michael Sheen, Antonio Banderas, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Buckley, Harry Collett, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard, Kasia Smutniak, Carmel Laniado, Frances de la Tour, Jason Mantzoukas, Ralph Ineson, Joanna Page, Sonny Ashbourne Serkis, Oliver Chris, Clive Francis, Eliot Barnes-Worrell.