Cobra. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Robert Carlyle, Victoria Hamilton, Richard Dormer, David Haig, Marisa Abela, Emmanuel Imani, Lucy Cohu, Daz Morland, Con O’Neill, Charlie Carrick, Leigh Remnant, Paul Whelligan, Steven Cree, Alexandre Willaume, Grace Hogg-Robinson, Mark Bazeley, Lee Byford, Jem Hawkes, Leeds Paul, Joshua Hogan, Jennifer Bulcock, Lisa Palfrey, Danny Ashok, Ian Attard, Chris Wilson, Edward Bennett, Ellie Kendrick, Vera Chock, Damien Speed, Molly McGlynn, Max Parker, Yemisi Oyinloye, Caroline Hayes, Denise Moreno, Amber Aga, Christopher Ben, Jamie Causer, Jonathan Harden.

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(588 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

Albert Cummings, Believe. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You either have rhythm, or you embrace the emotional creativity to be found in others as they unburden the tempo that resides in the heartbeat and the reflex of their soul. Rhythm is the pulse that satisfies when all else stagnates, when all becomes dust and dull routine and it invariably leads one to Believe in magic, in soul, and in the remarkable to whom nothing it seems is beyond creating.

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

Jake Shimabukuro, Trio. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The atmospheric brilliance displayed by the unexpected is such that when it hits you, when it finds you gasping for breath in the wake of its unmistakeable majesty, it leaves all that you may have become used to, floundering under the weight of your pre-conceived ideas.

Such is the presence created by Jake Shimabukuro and his ukulele, the pleasure that bounds forth is not only atmospheric, it positively invokes the passion found in the realm of imagination and asks the listener to embrace the fundamental essence of tone, mood and musical environment; a point of maintain the healthy respect to which art and the ability to appreciate are the twin pillars of civilisation.

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(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

White House Farm. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Freddie Fox, Mark Addy, Gemma Whelan, Stephen Graham, Cressida Bonas, Scott Reid, Alexa Davies, Mark Stanley, Grace Calder, Sean Gilder, Andrew Frame, Amy-Jayne Leigh, Amanda Burton, Oliver Dimsdale, Richard Goulding, Tom Christian, Alfie Allen, Amy McCallum, Dorian Lough, Nicholas Farrell, Millie Brady, Maimie McCoy, Jude Barrowcliffe, Nate Barrowcliffe, Oliver Zettertrom, Stewart Scudamore, Thomas Coombes, David Hunt, Nick Harris, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Amanda Lawrence.

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(674 words, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

Pet Sematary. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jete Laurence, Hugo Lavoie, Lucas Lavoie, Obassa Ahmed, Alyssa Brooke Levine, Maria Herrera, Frank Schorpion, Linda E. Smith, Sonia Maria Chirila.

Fashion may come and go with ease; the popular movements soon give way to the unmistakable surge in new wave and the cycle repeats in perpetuity. It seems though, and for all the time that he has been credited as being the greatest horror writer in American history, that fashion via the medium of film and television is finally understanding just how powerful the name Stephen King is when his work is adapted with him in mind.

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(522 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Richard Marx, Limitless. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is every reason to enjoy the feeling of the broken heart that has been delivered with sincerity by the artist, and unlike real life where the pain lingers in your soul for what can be the longest time and can which devour you till there is nothing but a shell residing in human form, when it is felt in the connection between art and human existence, it comes with the knowledge that heart will mend, that it will grow and appreciate what was put before them.

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

Green Day, Father Of All… Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

The life and death of the party are twin elements in which the voyeur is drawn to, across all aspects of art, these two chains of interpretation can always be seen hogging the limelight, jostling for attention as the crowds gather to witness exuberance dance with melancholy and the animated conversation thrive between the energetic soul and the downward spiral of the unravelling passion.

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(494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Death Be Not Proud. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Jenna Coleman, Kadiff Kirwan.

It is not always about who we let into our lives that should be of a concern, it ought to be those we refuse to let go of that would surely be the most troubling; the presence in the room that we cannot somehow live without, such is the fear of letting go that occasionally we find troubled souls and the homes they have made, are nothing more than shrines to ones to whom that refuse to leave.

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

Gemini. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz, John Cho, Greta Lee, Ricki Lake, Michelle Forbes, Nelson Franklin, Reeve Carney, Jessica Parker Kennedy, James Ransone, Todd Louiso, Marianne Rendon, Juan Antonio, Abraham Lim, Gabreila Flores, Ted Stavros, Levy Tran.

The cult of celebrity is such that when an opportunity presents itself in which you can manipulate it to your own advantage and yet when found to be lying to the public, you can arrange an interview which whitewashes your sins and transgressions and the whole world will still love you. The ordinary citizen suffers under the weight of their choice and the sufferance of demonisation by their friends and loved ones, the celebrity weathers the storm and be applauded for their honesty, even in the face of murder.

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(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

November Criminals. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Ansel Elgort, Chloe Grace Moretz, David Strathairn, Catherine Keener, Terry Kinney, Cory Hadrict, Philip Ettinger, Danny Flaherty, Victor Williams, Opal Alladin, Tessa Albertson, Adrian M. Mompoint, Karina Deyko, Jared Kemp, Samuel Ray Gates, Rena Maliszewski, Pamela Lambert, Georgia Lyman, Jimi Stanton, Bruce-Robert Serafin, Tod Randolph, Celeste Oliva,Tom Kemp, Michael Christoforo, Freddie Wong.

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(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)