Doctor Who: Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Sacha Dhawan, Patrick O’Kane, Ian McElhinney, Julie Graham, Alex Austin, Matt Carver, Rhiannon Clements, Seylan Baxter, Kirsty Besterman, Paul Kasey, Nicholas Briggs, Jo Martin, Steve Toussaint, Matt Carver, Jack Osborn, Evan McCabe, Branwell Donaghey, Orla O’Rourke, Andrew Macklin, Coalyn Byrne, Matthew Rohman, Simon Carew, Jen Davey, Rochard Highgate, Richard Price, Mickey Lewis, Matthew Doman, Paul Bailey. 

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(544 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

McDonald And Dodds: Invisible. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Pearl Chanda, Jack Riddiford, James Murray, Sebastian Knapp, Robert Lindsay, Natalie Mendoza, Rosalie Craig, Susannah Fielding, Jack Ashton, Roger Evans, Navin Chowdhry, Ellie Kendrick, Cassie Bradley.

Painting by numbers is not to be confused with great art but if it helps gain artistic perspective then it is an application of learning that can be seen as being undervalued, and if it helps appreciate a finer point of view, then who can decry it in its future potential for the student willing to study and gain pleasure from.

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(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Health & Safety, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Robert Stuart-Hudson, Vikki Earle, Kathryn Chambers, Connor Simkins, Elliot Bailey, Tony O’ Keeffe, Mikyla Jane Durkan, Ted Wilkinson.

Government and constitutional farce are alive and well and thriving. It could be argued that it is down to the political landscape that never seems to want to give up its grip on absurdity and restriction that sees the genre constantly able to entertain and give people the chills in equal and demanding measure.

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(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Barry Jones, Songs From A(Bed)Room. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We hold our head in our hands and look for the signs in which we know and understand will guide us; not exactly a prayer, more of a request that our time is never wasted, that even when we look back at our youth, perhaps the first real inclination that we are embroiled in the lonely and remote thoughts that our mind conjures up, that the songs and stories we make up at that point are the ones that drive us when we grow older.

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

Jon Meadows, I’ll Sail Away. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is a dream for many, the promise of the romanced thought but one delivered with a generation of force that insists it can handle all the extreme and negative judgements that go with it, that to be able to declare when you have had enough of the ill considerations and personal set backs that I’ll Sail Away, is to uphold your own pride, your belief and your own view, that you are worth more than others will ever see in you.

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(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

I Trapped The Devil. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Scott Poythress, A. J. Bowen, Susan Burke, Rowan Russell, John Marrott, Jocelin Donahue, Chris Sullivan, Aaron Larsen, Jack Vernon, Victoria Smith.

The Devil makes use of idle hands, but how many of us have ever thought of what we would do to the personification of evil if we found that we could capture and lock it away, if we could proclaim the worlds of immortality, I Trapped The Devil.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

The Twilight Zone, Nightmare At 30,000 Feet. (2019). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Adam Scott, Chris Diamantopoulos, Dan Carlin, Katie Findlay, Nicholas Lea, China Shavers, J. Cameron Barnett, Jordan Peele, Nabil Ayoub, Hana Kinani, Greg Zach, Vladimir Ruzich, Alexander Mandra, Demelza Randall, Emanuel Mokhtari, Arkie Kandola, Tarun Keram, Tim Howe, Brea St. James.

There is no way you can improve upon the classic or even stand shoulders with the influential. This maxim has proved been time and time again, and yet as with everything in life, occasionally the persistence of change means a piece of art can be, if not improved upon, at least given a facelift and become more in keeping with the times and far removed from its initial idea.

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(471 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Ross The Boss, Born Of Fire. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Born Of Fire, conceived in the harsh surroundings of war, we pick the battles that have sired us and been part of our surrounding, we kick out at the flame but then we add to it with our own special fury, the gasoline on the naked sparks that warms the soul to the point of providing its own continuous blaze; such is the respect when the fire rages beyond what people may have thought was originally possible that to be born in the searing heat offers a chance for the greatest shadows to be witnessed and explored as they dance on the walls for all to see.

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

Kailey Nicole. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The influence of others is not confined to how we are seen to be raised by them, but in how we also appreciate what they themselves had to go through to become who they are now, before we set eyes on them, before we hopefully felt their love and warmth inhabit our every waking thought and dedication to our own particular journey in their tale.

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(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Tell It To The Bees. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger, Gregor Selkirk, Kate Dickie, Euan Mason, Lauren Lyle, Liam Meghan, Joanne Gallagher, Joni Samson, Isaac Jenkins, Farah Samson, Leo Hoyte-Egan, Emum Elliott, Sarah McCardie, Steven Robertson, Alexa Snell, Michael O’ Connor, Rebecca Hanssen, Tori Burgess, Ben Bradley, Declan Gemmell, Penny Sharp.

The birds and the bees, even in the second decade of the 21st Century we are coy about any sexual act, one of passion and lust, one of caring and hidden; and yet for all our advancements as a society we still have the thoughts of repression and the unhappiness of how those who paved their own way in love were treated by society at large.

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