The Maniacs. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some meeting are meant to be and yet they dissolve into thin air as, others come together with the seismic force of nature that can only be explained away as a comet slamming forth into the ocean and causing a tidal wave that is several miles high, and yet leaves the watcher with a sense of serenity that cannot be easily explained away.

The Twilight Zone: The Comedian. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Amara Karen, Diarra Kilpatrick, Ryan Robbins, Tracy Morgan, Jordan Peele, Marc Joseph, Toby Hargrave, Danny Dworkis, Jacob Machin, Briana Rayner, Darcey Michael, Sean Hewlett, Brendon Zub.

Individuality gets a hard press in the modern era, by staying true to your own core values and vision you are seemingly obligated to undergo derision, of being accused of forgoing inclusion in the search for unique distinctiveness, of owing your own voice instead of being part of design by committee. Whilst inclusion is a good thing, whilst hearing the opinions of others is way to gauge your audience, to fall in line with another to the point where they subsume your tongue, that is the path to just being another blank face on a multiplying wall.

King Calaway, Rivers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rivers tell the stories that we often cannot hear, and if we do, we don’t understand the meaning, too often cast adrift into the deeper waters where we stand no chance of hollering to the shore or being seen by the ones who care, instead we guess at the fortune we have that the river is at least taking us somewhere, guiding us as it whispers, singing, if we are fortunate to even glean a perception of its power, us a lullaby of grace.

Ryan Perry, High Risk, Low Reward. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

No places a wager with more sincerity than the person who sees the value in the High Risk, Low Reward scenario. Anybody can back a sure thing and look as if they are geniuses, most people slap the winner on the back after the race has been won, but for those that back the near impossible with the knowledge that all that matters is they have succeeded, those are the ones to whom you throw admiring glances at.

Mapplethorpe. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, Marianne Rendon, John Benjamin Hickey, Brandon Sklenar, Tina Benko, Mark Moses, Carolyn McCormick, Thomas Philip O’Neill, Mickey O’ Hagan, Anthony Michael Lopez, McKinley Belcher III, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Karlee Perez, David J. Cork, Kerry Butler, Hari Nef, Robert George Siverls, John Bolton, Christina Rouner, Gordon Tashijan, Ruisdael Cintron, Erick Huertas, Rotimi Paul, Karen Oberoi, Tanya Warren, Martin Axon, Glenn Kubota.

Me And Deboe. The Lesson (Culture Fruit, Go Live, Mother Shipton, Friend.) Single Reviews.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Unless you have been under a rock for a decade, or perhaps the idea of seeing arguably one of the finest duos to emerge since the days of recorded music first took its pulse out into the world and the freedom hard won by the song writer to walk their own walk, then Me and Deboe will stand in your mind as the epitome of the craft, and for many they rival the talent of the heroes of the genre, Simon and Garfunkel, with exceptional reason.

Pet Shop Boys, Hotspot. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is the beat proclaimed in earnest, and there is pulse that is heard underneath the layers of skin, the one that raises the hair on the back of the neck and finds the senses tingling and dancing with delight. Both have their purpose, both have their own signals of intent, but it is to the maturity of expression that comes with the pulse that the duo that make up the Pet Shop Boys that sees their own beat once more become a primal and scintillating Hotspot.

Inside No. 9: Thinking Out Loud. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Phil Davis, Maxine Peak, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Ioanna Kimbook, Sara Kestelman, Sandra Gayer.

Disassociation is an area of science that does not get the fair representation in the media, on television, on film, that it arguably should receive. Thankfully the days where such a disorder was treated with derision is locked in the past, confined to the annals of the worst stereotypes conceived and the sensationalist attention grabbing tropes that do more harm than good.

I Still See You. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Bella Thorne, Richard Harmon, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Price-Francis, Shaun Benson, Louis Herthum, Thomas Elms, Sara Thompson, David Lawrence Brown, High Dillon, Stephanie Moroz, Micah Kennedy, Marina Stephenson Kerr, Cassandra Potenza, Danika Fredrick, Arden Alfonso, Robyn Delaney, Alexandra Wittering, Darcy Fehr, Aiden Ritchie, Adrian McLean, Curtis Moore, Jacqueline Guertin, Holly Bernier, Ed Sutton, Morgan Holmstrom, Gino Anania, Zoe Fish, Alyssa Parker.

UFO. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, Ella Purnell, Benjamin Beatty, Cece Abbey, Davis Strathairn, Ken Early, Brian Bowman, Rick Chambers, Lu Parker, Khrys Styles, Ted J. Weil, A.J. Ransom, Katie Eichler, Sara Welch, David Heckel, Chauncey Ragland, Bradley Thomas.

We either fear the possibility of life on another planet and the concerns that might raise should they find a way to visit us, or we feel the pull of trepidation that exists because we suspect that we are alone in the universe; no matter which one that pulls your own strings more, it cannot be dismissed that there are an abundance of possible sightings of U.F.O.s, scorned and rejected by Government and official sources, and yet caught in camera by millions.