Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Ryan Eggold, Topher Grace, Jasper Paakkonen, Michael Buscemi, Paul Walter Hauser, Ashlie Atkinson, Alec Baldwin, Isaiah Whitlock Jr, Damaris Lewis, Ato Blankson-Wood, Corey Hawkins, Robert John Burke, Brian Tarantina, Arthur J. Nascarella, Ken Garito, Frederick Weller, Robert John Burke, Dared Wright, Faron Salisbury, Ryan Preimesberger, Harry Belafonte, Gina Belafonte.
The modern Pandora
gratefully accepts
your Sixpence’ worth
of opinion,
and revels in your unearned view
of the moments
to which one side
does not fit all,
perhaps late at night
the joy of burning wings
is a thrill, moth driven Ego,
inflated by the size of the Sun,
head down, a sentence written,
and then written again
in another place, an argument
of conflicting locations,
the opinion given, satisfied,
in the eyes of the dull
hilarious,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Mutty Burman, Michael Horsley, Joe Speare, Zain Salim, DJ Spykatcha.
There is a train of thought that there are no new stories to tell in theatre, that the classics, modern, and those written in the depths of time, are the crowning glories of the craft and cannot be improved upon, or at least changed to give a new sense of direction to the audience’s thoughts, to their pleasure and enjoyment, in the way they perceive the characters laid down. ]
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: John Cho, Debra Messing, Sara Sohn, Michelle La, Joseph Lee, Dominic Hoffman, Sylvia Minassian, Melissa Disney, Connor McRaith, Colin Woodell, Brianna McLean, Derek Ellis, Ric Sarabia, Joseph John Schirle, Reed Buck.
Innovation is to be praised, the guts to try something new for an audience whilst retaining the classic elements of what makes the genre a success in the first place; to find a way to tell a story which diverts from the expected is a pleasure and one that you can spend a life time Searching for.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are times when looking past the limit of all that you have achieved so far and seeing further with the mind’s eye is the only option available to the human spirit of adventure; sadly the experience of finding the absolute is hindered by perspective, the limitations we have put upon ourselves is a blinkered weight which closes our eyes to the possibility of further knowledge, of understanding and greatness.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudulph, Leslie David Baker, Joel McHale, Cynthy Wu, Michael McDonald, Mitch Silpa, Hemky Madera, Bill Barratta, Dorien Davies, Kevin Clash, Victor Yerrid, Drew Massey, Ted Michaels, Brian Henson, Allan Trautman.
The Muppet Show it isn’t, there is no cosy sense of mischief, of childhood playfulness felt, and yet the Henson name is driven through The Happytime Murders like a nail being hammered through a sock and because of this sense of stuffed innuendo and rebellion to go and deliver an adult-orientated puppet/human story, the makers have stitched together a film which is beautifully insubordinate, outrageously defiant and completely, and utterly, sublime.
In the darkness
of your words one February night,
you seemed to revel in my misfortune
oh dear woman
of Norfolk broad;
a scathing attack with borrowed fire
and from out of nowhere personal confrontation.
It was in that moment that I thank you
for being so mean, so
unpleasant as you tried to shame me
about finding solitude in the shadow
and the trace of ghostly human light,
your insult and insinuation
that blackness doesn’t exist
and that misery is a state of mind,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To be able to reflect upon life, to look upon the world and your place within it and understand that you can at least alter, mend, see through the course of revolution, then that is the point where you can look the clock in the eye and say that Day After Day you did your utmost to see Time as the way to beat injustice and social flaws that seem to creep back into our lives like a swarm of Ants finding a crack in the skirting and leaving their footprints over the forgotten dust of rhythm and rebellion.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
You don’t have to understand the mechanics of the Waltz to know how elegant it looks when performed by players and dancers as they glide effortlessly on the dance floor, you do not have to sit and think about the inner working of Auden’s Stop All The Clocks or Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Hamlet when considering how the words of ordinary men and women can move and haunt you for all your life, and you don’t have to feel embarrassed when a virtuoso presents the stunning influence of Italian classical composer Lorenzo Perosi to you.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
You cannot take back what was said yesterday, it hangs in the air of conversations and gossip-monger’s hearts as they find ways to bring you down to their level of insecurity or passionless existence. What you may have said, what your thoughts were being dictated to at the time may be of little consequence to the outside world, after all, the muse requires feeding, and rarely with a closed mind or mouth; and yet those that hold onto a word indefinitely if it means they have something to beat you with, the misspoken word said in jest can soon become a poison that keeps on giving.