The Good Liar. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Jim Carter, Mark Lewis Jones, Lily Dodsworth-Evans, Phil Dunster, Michael Culkin, Laurie Davidson, Celine Buckens, Dino Kelly, Aleksander Jovanovic, Stella Stocker, Nell Williams, Bessie Carter, Patrick Godfrey.

In a world looking for companionship and love, the warning of not trusting those who advertise on-line has perhaps never been more acute, more relevant. The older we get, the more it is possible to see the depth of our footprints in the sands of time and for those who might take the plunge in holding a hand out for that special someone, you have to ask, have we walked the path where my footprints lay, together before.

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(473 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Barry Briercliffe, Lie Back And Think Of England. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating 9/10

 

Lie Back And Think Of England, think of all the country has aspired to be, the good it has done, the accountable hardship and desecration it has poured on others, how would your montage be perceived, how would your vision of the country appear.

Think of England, think of Britain, especially when it comes to the arts, the voices that have shaped, the expressions that have given rise to hope, the declarations that have created hope and it is in the music of the mighty, the ones with a glint in their eye and a purpose to provide that hope that stands out.

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(379 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, I’m Almost Over You. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are the degrees of love in which a person rises high, in which they become the obsession, the eternal Muse, then there are the fallen, the ones we look upon with disdain, with displeasure, with the face of being damned firmly etched upon our faces; between these two states of emotion we lay content, our determination of appreciation and the fallow slide of neglect a true reflection of our feelings.

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

The Aeronauts. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Phoebe Fox, Anna Reid, Tim McInnerny, Vincent Perez, Robert Glenister, Tom Courtney, Rebecca Front, Kamil Lemieszewski, Gianni Calchetti, Lewin Lloyd, Julian Ferro, Thomas Arnold, Andy Mihalache.

If you are terrified of heights then then to be trapped in a hot air balloon is arguably the worst place you can imagine to be, or maybe as the one in control of its descent, on top of the structure trying to force it down by releasing the mechanism that will get you to ground safely.

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

Dublin Murders. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sarah Greene, Killian Scott, Michael D’Arcy, Eugene O’Hare, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Moe Dunford, Ellie O’Halloran, Niall Jordan, Ian Kenny, Conleth Hill, Amy Macken, Leah McNamara, Peter McDonald, Jonny Holden, Daniel Brickenden, Sam Keeley, Niall O’Brien, Aoife Fitzpatrick, David Thomas, Aiden O’ Hare, Alexandra Moen, Jonathan Forbes, Carolyn Bracken, Antonio Aakeel, Vanessa Emme, Charlie Kelly, Amelia Crowley, Barry O’Connor, Eunice McMenamin, Ned Dennehy, Erika Roe, James Browne, Caoimhe O’Malley, Paul Roe.

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(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Rob Davis, The Book Of Forks. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The way we damage other people is not always meant, it is not always with a design or purpose, we leave that to politicians and those with the agenda of keeping secrets intact. However, occasionally the damage executed is created by the tsunami of events that wash over us, the knives that are out and the inability to make sense of the world around us; the fear of what we might believe is the absurd, the futile and the meaningless.

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(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Rob Davis, The Can Opener’s Daughter. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The art of the surreal is to draw attention to the sense of the off balance that we feel when we stop to look at the world from a position of standing still, to make us do more than think, but to accept that all we may have put faith in may be wrong, that we have forgotten to stop blindly accepting, that we don’t know how to communicate with someone with different ideas without starting a fight; to consent to the fantastic and weird is the best possible course of action that humanity can do.

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

Doctor Sleep. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Carel Struycken, Jacob Tremblay, Emily Alyn Lind, Zahn McClarnon, Cliff Curtis, Bruce Greenwood, Chelsea Talmadge, Alex Essoe, Carl Lumbly, Joclin Donahue, Catherine Parker, Seleena Anduze, Kyliegh Curran, Robert Longstreet, Nicholas Pryor, Bethany Anne Lind, Kaitlyn McCormick, Marc Farley, Molly Jackson, Kk Heim, Zachary Momoh, Roger Dale Floyd, Shane Brady.

 

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(485 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Not Going Out: Halloween Special. (2019). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Breton, Bobby Ball, Marcia Warren, Stephanie Levi-John, Ben Crowe, Billy Lydon, Michael Fenton-Stevens, Francesca Newman, Finlay Southby, Max Pattison.

 

You either love Halloween or you hate it, you can see it as a night of childish fantasy, or an import, a moment in which we party at the expense of someone else’s culture, the trick or the treat, whichever way you look at it, it is only for one night.

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

Temple. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Mark Strong, Daniel Mays, Carice van Houten, Catherine McCormack, Tobi King Bakare, Lily Newmark, Chloe Pirrie, Ryan McKen, Sienna Kelly, Clare Rushbrook, Sam Hazeldine, Wunmi Mosaku, Craig Parkinson, Marion Bailey, Hiten Patel, Anamaria Marinca, Carolina Main, Theo Solomon, Donald Sumpter, Kate Dickie, Turlough Convery, Rosy Nenjamin, Emma Carter, Naomi Cooper-Davis, Gabriel Gambetta, Jordan Long, Martin McCann, Mark Bazeley, Jo Hartley, Jan Bijvoet, Layo-Christina Akinlude, Adeyinka Akinrinade, Charles Armstrong, Josh Barrow, Daniel Betts, Cornelius Booth.

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