Doctor Who: Kerblam! Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Claudia Jessie, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Lee Mack, Callum Dixon, Leo Flanagan, Matthew Gravelle.

It is the scream of vile objectification, of trying to make someone feel superiority over you, no matter what situation you find yourself in, especially when it is concerned with the arts, there will always be someone who snidely looks down upon your choices, and shouts viciously, “Why don’t you get a proper job?”

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(600 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Cut And Dried.

 

There are still tinges of red

dotted

here

and there

as my ruffled feathers mourn

the reflection I now bare

in the mirror,

cut to the bone, shorn

down, worn down Samson

strength, is it just age after all

as I approach the start

of a sixth decade here

on Earth, that self-inflicted

hair loss is congratulated

and applauded like shedding

of comfortable stones,

a woman’s hair is a crowning glory,

in the age of equalism

cannot I not lament

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(96 words, estimated 23 secs reading time)

The Time Machine, Theatre Review. The Studio, Atkinson Theatre, Southport.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Stephen Cunningham.

It is all about Time, how we attempt to understand it, how it tempts, teases, and controls us, Time punishes the wary and the inquisitive alike, it finds ways to deceive us, to humble and humiliate us, get too close and it leaves scars, stay away from investigating it, from immersing yourself within its non-corporeal hold and it will tear you layer from layer, it will chew down on your soul and ravage you. Time is a beast, a friend, a lawyer, an advocate and one that must unravel slowly, the tick and the tock always reminding us that if we see into our own futures, that of our own species, the result could drive us mad.

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(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Folger, Johnny Depp, Zoe Kravitz, Callum Turner, Kevin Githrie, Ezra Miller, Claudia Kim, Cornell John, Carmen Ejogo, Wolf Hall, Derek Riddell, Rosie Corby-Tuech, Ingvar Eggert Sigursosson, Andrew Turner, Alfrun Rose, Janie Campbell Bower, Brontis Jodorowsky, Hugh Quarshie, Keith Chanter.

Some actions undertaken in life require no justification for their existence, and regardless of what you may think of the whole Harry Potter Universe and its ever-growing list of additions and supplements, what cannot be denied is the way in which J.K. Rowling has endeavoured to bring audiences together, either through the volumes of pages, or through the effect of the cinema screen.

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(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

At Night, I Look The Opposition In The Eyes.

 

I can feel my breathe

diminish,

go thin,

even before it leaves

my body,

exhaling out of control

as it insanely tries to justify

the war I go through,

a soldier never quite alone

in this jungle wilderness,

a beast

camouflaged

in plain sight, standing out

as death rolls the dice

with a grin that bares rotten, stunted baby teeth

and a certain foul essence that passes

for conviction, assuredness,

a firmness of plan

as jungles collide

and bitter battles

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(124 words, estimated 30 secs reading time)

Fiction Lies, Just In Time (To Be Too Late). Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Keeping time is essential, always running behind the clock leaves you stressed, being punctual is the height of good manners; such is the demand of etiquette, a hangover from previous generations that didn’t understand the occasion is sometimes too overwhelming for some and for them to process, that the individual is not regimented by time.

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

Alan Triggs, Hey Mister. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

Art should never be frozen, stuck in a place in which dust crawls and multiplies over the icy cage in which the artist’s endeavour is placed by the well-meaning and the loved-up into a place of no change, of never being able to grow, to adapt, to find another level in which hopefully the art in question will come to mean something different, something more.

Alan Triggs, Hey Mister. Single Review. full post

(369 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Carr & Roswall, Time Flies. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Time is a construct in which we find ourselves filling in days with observations and damage limitation, with pursuits and love, and wherever possible with belief, a belief that what we create will be at least appreciated, if not valued. Time Flies when you’re having fun, however when that time disappears into the ether, a last salute before it is enveloped by unquenchable fog, what we find remaining is a truth, a social reality steeped in a language which we wish to embrace. We cannot fathom Time, we can only live in its shadow and pray we make the most of it and create something beautiful.

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(430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Yvonne Lyon, I Believe In Christmas. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Christmas comes but once a year, and for many that is one time too many, a season of excess, of superficiality, of overload and mental health issues as each year we forget that the point of it all is to reflect, to be thankful and look forward to the brighter days ahead. For some the abundance of good cheer perhaps masks the feeling of loneliness, of regret, the glut of merriment a shell in which we crawl to see us through dark times.

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(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

P.O.D. Circles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Fashion, like conscious rebellion, goes around in Circles, what is popular and considered absolute authority one day, is rebutted and rebuked until a new generation comes along and finds their sympathies firmly entrenched with an older thought, old clothes, new perspective.

What is fashionable today somehow becomes a renaissance figure tomorrow, the resurgence in popularity that comes along is to be expected, but not always one that surfaces against the tide of expectation and delivery. It takes a genuine thought of speaking out between the old and new and ploughing a path less visited in which to grab the attention of those you wish to have by your side for the battle ahead.

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(401 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)