Rabid. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Laura Vandervoort, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Ted Atherton, Hanneke Talbot, Stephen Huszar, Mackenzie Gray,  Stephen McHattie, Kevin Hanchard, Heidi von Palleske, Joel Labelle, C.M. Punk, Edie Inksetter, Tristan Risk, Sylvia Soska, Jen Soska, Vanessa Jackson, Joe Bostick, Troy James, Greg Bryk, Earl Bubba McLean Jr, A. J. Mendez, Dion Karas, Amanda Zhou, Lily Gao.

Disease is all the rage, especially the ones that brings human beings to the level of nothing more of the unthinking and savage, the brutal and the one that is driven by hunger. Disease is the great leveller and as what is on screen can mimic the daily survival of society, it seems only fair that cinema constantly finds new ways to remind the viewer of the fragility of human existence.

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(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Radio Flash. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Brighton Sharbino, Dominic Monaghan, Will Patton, Fionnula Flanagan, Miles Anderson, Michael Filipowich, Kyle Collin, Sean Cook, Arden Myrin, Amire Abdullah, Max Adler, Jerry Basham, Lance Valentine Butler, Juli Erickson, Mike Harris.

You do have wonder what it takes to get a film noticed, that there will always be enough advertising and budget allocation to the films that the box office is assured of selling out and yet somehow in the gold mines of celluloid and cinematic constant success, there will be that one diamond that reflects unknowing wealth with greater passion than all the ingots found in the endless stream.

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(508 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

The Goes Wrong Show: 90 Degrees. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Bryony Corrigan, Dave Hearn, Henry Lewis, Charlie Russell, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields, Greg Tannahill, Nancy Zamit.

A premise that not only captivates, which not only makes you laugh but makes you sweat with enthusiasm for the stunts performed, that is the point of physical theatre and comedy taken to its most natural and exhilarating high.

The team behind The Goes Wrong Show have taken their hugely successful stage performances and turned them into a television series which has surely garnered admiration and quite possibly the green eyed monster of jealousy, and to whom the best of the anarchic productions, 90 Degrees, was left till last.

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(371 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Aerialists, Dear Sienna. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A tightrope held between two states of mind is not one that is easily traversed, the fall awaits one conscious or the other and the only way to survive the possible inevitable plunge is to look ahead, pay no attention to anything else around you, and live your life as if it were the only one that matters, a letter to the faithful, a telegram to the world which starts, not in let down with the greeting Dear John, but instead with the upbeat and personal salutation of Dear Sienna.

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(385 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

The Highly Acclaimed YEP Team Bring A Timely Production Of Animal Farm To The Everyman Theatre This February.

Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) will perform a Laurence Wilson adaptation of George Orwell’s controversial novella Animal Farm from 12th-15th February at the Everyman.

Featuring YEP actors with direction from Everyman & Playhouse staff in collaboration with set design and stage management students from LIPA, the playcontinues the company’s run of politically aware productions.

In a world where news headlines are dominated by Brexit, austerity and corruption, YEP are presenting the Orwellian classic, based on events in Stalinist Russia, for 2020 audiences.

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(301 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

Critically Acclaimed Drama, Classic Hits and Award-Winning Comedy On At The Epstein Theatre This February.

Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre promises a month of critically acclaimed drama, classic hits, award-winning comedy, magic with a twist and the return of an acclaimed show born at The Epstein. 

For drama lovers, Riot Act kicks off a 10-date U.K. tour at The Epstein on Wednesday 5th February, marking LGBT+ History Month. Direct from the West-End, this critically acclaimed show, written and performed by Alexis Gregory and directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair M.B.E.,is a hard-hitting, hilarious and moving exploration of 6 decades of the LGBT rights movement. 

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(874 words, estimated 3:30 mins reading time)

Sgoil Chiuil Na Gaidhealtachd, The Final Trawl. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It shouldn’t even be up for debate, and yet every year we find ourselves wrestling with some sort of demon that openly states that the youth of today have no idea what the world is truly about and yet we applaud them when they put their minds together to create art. We warn them though that art doesn’t pay the bills, that they must know, in our words, stop the nonsense and buckle down, become useful to society, not to daydream about offering the world something more valuable than being yet another bean counter and person who says yes to everything the manager utters.

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

Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em Comes To St. Helens As Part Of U.K. Tour.

Highly acclaimed tour of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em comes to St. Helens Theatre Royal from 2nd –6th June, starring Joe Pasquale and producers have today announced the cast.

The producers are delighted to announce the casting of Moray Treadwell as Mr. Luscombe/Mr. Worthington, David Shaw-Parker as Father O’Hara and Ben Watson as Desmond/Constable. They join the previously announced Joe Pasquale as the loveable but accident-prone Frank Spencer, Sarah Earnshaw as his long-suffering wife Betty and Susie Blake as his disapproving mother-in-law, Mrs. Fisher. Also, in the cast are Peter F. Gardiner and Jayne Ashley. Get ready for the ultimate feel-good night out with Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em from Tuesday 2nd June 2020 – Saturday 6th June 2020.

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

Joe Gideon, Armagideon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When Armageddon comes, invariably we won’t know what has hit us, the seven trumpets may sound, but we will be too immersed in the act of gluing our eyes to the latest gif and retweeting the odd moment of banality to wonder what the noise was, the sound of the bell tolling for us all.

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(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Nicolas Godin, Concrete And Glass. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Not all is built upon what some may consider to be on fertile ground, life has a habit of taken the expertly laid plans and finding ways to makes them shatter into pieces, sands shift, expectations rise and fall, and yet throughout it all, Concrete And Glass will somehow find ways to prove the enormity and scale of how humanity lived, soared and eventually found a way to live with itself.

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(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)