Sapphire And Steel: The Surest Poison. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Richard Franklin, Tom Bevan, Eric MacLennan, Helen Goldwyn.

Time has a curious hold over humanity, other creatures may adhere to nature’s environmental clock, somehow bringing life to the world on a specific day such as when flying ants take to the skies or when salmon return to their spawning grounds. However, humanity is defined by how its spends each hour, every minute, the days and years in which it is alive and is judged for it, is derided if one single second is misused or wasted in the pursuit of the wrong career, not enough exercise, not reading enough, throwing a day away without having created art; the knives come out and the loudest condemnation is unavoidably proclaimed.

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(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: The School. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Keith Drinkel, Lisa Daniely, Victoria Gould, James Daniel Wilson.

Time goes by, they say it’s the time of your life, the best of days, the ones that you will look back upon with a fair degree of fondness; and yet there is also pain, suffering, the sense of alienation and fear that hides in those memories, the real sense of confidence taken apart, the spirit shattered, and as for the pupils, the first love’s kiss can be a mess, the promise of a future swept away. It is no wonder that when we look back at our days at school, depending on the mood we are in or the company we are keeping, we experience the high of the reminisce, the low of emotional recall.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Tom Houston, Gap In The Fence. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Without a poets heart, life surely must be one steeped in unending anger, devoid of meaning, and one that does not bare thinking about. In every profession, from bricklaying to being a chef, from shop keeper to pottery maker, even in the heart of a politician, there must reside some element of the poet, the one that feels the glory and the pulse of passion that makes life, even in the darkest hour, one of beauty.

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

Ghost Avenue, Even Angels Fall. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The sound of celestial balance being tilted may escape our ears, but the effect on our senses as we understand that Even Angels Fall, that cherubs, spirits and guardians can just as be prone to temptation as any human, that they may also tumble in the vacuum of enticement and lure, can be devastating, the fall is such that the noise rings out around the world and the shock wave is carried through our own souls.

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(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Dead Man Walking. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susanna Harker, David Collings, Arthur Bostrom, Jo Castleton, Neil Cole, Michael Chance, Nigel Fairs, Suzanne Proctor, Linda Bartram.

It is perhaps not the threat of confinement, justice, or even morals that keeps the vast majority of society on the straight and narrow, but perhaps rather the fear of spending a portion of their life behind bars with Time for company. The trepidation is not the sense of the law exacting its revenge on you for your crimes, but the retribution sought by Time as it has the ability to make you feel the damnation of all that you may have destroyed, taken, and killed.

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(500 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Frozen II. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff, Sterling K. Brown, Evan Rachel Wood, Alfred Molina, Martha Plimton, Jason Ritter, Rachel Matthews, Jeremy Sito, Ciaran Hinds, Alan Tudyk, Hadley Gannaway, Mattea Conforti, Aurora Aksnes, Paul Briggs.

The phenomenon will always be with us, the occurrence of the cinematic event that manages to infiltrate almost every aspect of life and society is one that either is embraced or shunned with seemingly equal proportions. Whilst the Marvel Studio may have held the position of top dog in the last decade, the undisputed King of the block, it is to the characters of Elsa and Anna that the Queens of the Frozen franchise have infiltrated their way into theatre productions, the songs, the costumes, the public, arguably cannot get enough of the sisters, their snowman and the magic of their lives.

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(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Police Car Collective, I Guess It’s Over Now. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The song that revels in its ability to dig away into the emotions of happiness and the beginnings of melancholy is to be lauded and acknowledged. It is the sense of art imitating the mind, the sense of imposter syndrome that inflicts its tell-tale signs of destructive patterns and stating that nobody deserves to feel joy, when in actual fact the smile on somebody’s face should be the most paramount of expressions to behold.

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(328 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: The Lighthouse. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Joseph Young, Neil Salvadge, Ian Hallard, Lucy Beresford, Michael Adams, Stuart Piper.

The lies we tell ourselves, the secrets we keep in our mind, are the endless triggers for Time to leak from the past and into the future, and what we may believe is our own private self being protected from admitting our failures, the darkness within, it has a habit of spilling out, thanks to Time, and infecting others, putting lives in mortal danger.

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(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: All Fall Down. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, David Collings, Michael Chance, Kate Dyson, Suzanne Proctor, Linda Bartram, Neil Cole.

Time is full of tricks, it has the ability to knock humanity off its perch repeatedly and humble the species to the point where it doubts itself and can turn against rhyme and reason in the pursuit of self-satisfaction and self-interest.

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(356 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Harley Quinn. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Kaley Cuoco, Lake Bell, Alan Tudyk, Ron Funches, Tony Hale, Matt Oberg, Jason Alexander, Diedrich Bader, Christopher Meloni, J.B. Smoove, Jim Rash, James Adomian, Andrew Daly, Vanessa Marshall, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Phil LaMarr, Rahul Kohli, Briana Cuoco, Giancarlo Esposito, James Wolk, Tom Hollander, Sean Giambrone, Wanda Sykes, Rhea Perlman, Jacob Tremblay, Frankie Muniz.

From maligned introduced sidekick in which to give Batman’s greatest nemesis, The Joker, a feminine, if rather weak, foil, to arguably one of the greatest and adored characters within the D.C. comic universe, and all through the tenacity of the way the act of evolvement can be perceived and to be shown to grow.

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(534 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)