The Twilight Zone: A Small Town. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Damon Wayans Jr., David Krumholtz, Natalie Martinez, Paula Newsome, Keegan Connor Tracy, Andrew Alvarez, Jordan Peele, Steel Bey, Jason Asuncion, Marc Gaudet, Peter New, Michael P. Northley, Linda Darlow, Patrick Keating, Christina Jastrzembska, Tim Zhang, Krish Lohtia, Kelly Richard Nelson, Jeremy Arnold, Kristina Arnold.

If we could look down on creation and find a way to change all that is bad, all that is annoying, bothersome and frustratingly simple to fix, if we could do this, would we do it in full glare of the watchful eye of all who have their own agendas, or would we solve the problems anonymously, in quiet contemplation and never take a single word of praise for doing the right thing.

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(672 words, estimated 2:41 mins reading time)

Yvonne Lyon, Growing Wild. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

When you are young, when adult authority perhaps means something, the pointed finger and verbal accusation of Growing Wild was one that might make you stop and think, careful not to upset those that mean something to you, you rein in the storm, you prune back the excess, as one would a garden allowed to spread out of control, and you restore the balance of contentment. The trouble is you then deny yourself the chance to be the storm that changes the landscape, you become part of the background in which everybody is the same, you don’t blossom into the natural you.

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(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Pink Floyd, Delicate Sound Of Thunder (2020 Reissue). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Nostalgia is not always what you remember, but how it is framed when you return to the memory later on.

In the modern era we are dealt on a daily basis the chance to renew memories constantly, what you think you knew is constantly revised, changed, altered to the point where in some artistic version of 1984 and the endless re-editing of history to make it more palatable to the party line, the song that once remained the same, has now the power to be different.

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(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Lost Transmissions. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Juno Temple, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Hazlewood, Daisy Bishop, Jamie Harris, Grant Harvey, Danny Ramirez, Robert Schwartzman, Alexandra Daddario, Jacob Loeb, Mickey Schiff, Andres Faucher, Charles Boothe, Reef Karim, Anthony Rossomando, Bria Vinaite, Nana Ghana, Corey Mendell Parker, Jonathan Ohye, Tao Okamoto, Nic D’Avirro, Marius De Vries.

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(625 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

Katie McNally Trio, Now More Than Ever. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Now More Than Ever we should be looking at ourselves in the eye and asking ourselves a simple question, what can we achieve whilst time is seemingly against us, and the honest, the sincere answer should not be one shrouded in excuses, in the feelings of what if we fail, but in the words of Erin Hanson,”What if you fly?”

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(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Fantasy Island. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Michael Pena, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell, Jimmy O. Yang, Portia Doubleday, Ryan Hansen, Michael Rooker, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Mike Vogel, Kim Coates, Robbie Jones, Jeriva Benn, Charlotte McKinney, Josh McConville, Tane Williams-Accra, Edmund Lembke-Hogan, Ian Roberts, Evan Evagora, Goran D. Kleut, Josh Randall, Joshua Diaz, Andrew Lees, Nick Slater.

As British musician Thomas Dolby once elegantly, perhaps mischievously, once sang, “There is nothing new under the sun“, and whilst you can always put a new twist on an old theme, put a new cover on an old favourite chair, it doesn’t make it original; it doesn’t fool anyone into believing anything but that it is of illusion and memory for once stood out.

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(526 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Archive. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The power to transcend your initial boundaries, your formative experiences, which like dogma you clung to and preached as your only guide in life, is such that if you can appear in more than a single place or reference at once, truly shows just how impossibly universal you have become.

The point of such illumination is to be a presence for others, not to stumble through life as though you are here but for a short while, but to know that what you learn, you can teach, and in that lesson learned you can be seen as influencing more than just one section of society, but across the whole spectrum of humanity.

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(603 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

Crush Limbo, Purveyors of Mayhem. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Punk attitude wrapped up in an anarchistic heart and maintained by the natural urge to speak out against the powers of indifference, ignorance and inadequacy, that is what is needed now, not fine speeches of a gilded future and only stopping short of quoting some euphemistic utopian dream, but a duty to tell the truth, to let people understand for themselves that the mess we have allowed to fill up the sewers beneath our feet, has not only backed up and spilling out the country’s toilets, but is on the streets and the children yet to come are playing in it with our blessing.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Fanny Lye Deliver’d. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds, Zak Adams, Peter McDonald, Perry Fitzpatrick, Kenneth Collard.

The freedom to rejoice in a life that you wish to live is one that is forever ongoing, and one that was hard fought against by the patriarchal dominated church which sought to keep women under the subjugation of men for thousands of years, and which has ridiculously managed to keep some semblance of authoritarian control over a woman’s body and her mind in much of the world even in a modern age of enlightenment and with feminism very much offering sovereignty, a sanctity of independence delivered.

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(568 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Astronaut. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Richard Dreyfus, Lyriq Bent, Krista Bridges, Colm Feore, Richie Lawrence, Art Hindle, Graham Greene, Judy Marshak, Jennifer Phipps, Joan Gregson, Karen LeBlanc, Paulino Nunes, Mike Taylor, Colin Mochrie, Jeff Douglas, Rhona Shekter, Anthony Bekenn, Maria Ricossa, Jason Burke, Alex Hatz, Peter Valdron, Sandra Beech, Jonathan Walton, Lori Hallier, Ryan LaPlante, Rosemary Dunmore.

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(571 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)