Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The song with the bestial, almost savage hook is the one that comes along and tears apart your soul, but also has the presence of mind to nurture its recovery by being honest, brutal perhaps, but far beyond the often-stolen kiss paraded by the pop boy band which lifts the spirits only for a moment.
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Cast: Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Zachery Quinto, Charlie Day, Dave Bautista, Kenneth Choi.
It is almost impossible to hold antipathy towards Jodie Foster, there is no rhyme or reason to look at her contribution to the art of cinema as nothing less than favourable and with some incredible memories along the way, from Taxi Driver through films such as Bugsy Malone, The Accused, the unforgettable performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, and even in 1993’s Sommersby, Jodie Foster has sealed her reputation as an actor of outstanding quality, she has been one of the industry’s most forthright and passionate of spokeswomen.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Catherine Devine, Kimberley Elizabeth Greenwood, Nick Wymer, Louise Gregson, Michael Newstead, Joe Matthew-Morris, Geraldine Moloney Judge , Lee Burnitt, Caitlin Harwood, James Stephenson, Charley McCafferty, Laura Jones.
There is a time when we must all look to those we may call father and take on the mantle of being grown up in front of them, that the facade of childhood and made up stories must cease, and we must find ourselves being the adult, we must cut the strings and stand upon our own two feet.
From out of the shadows
the mugger brandished his weapon,
a desperate poet in need of a rhyme,
shunned by society, he thrust his
ill thought out Haiku
and grinned blackened teeth.
Call that a poem?,
enquired the mugger’s late-night target
and slowly drew out the epic
he had been working on
for twenty years, with unfolding
plot and elaborate narrative
weaved throughout time,
imagining gasps and the scent
of the Italian Rivera in his cold,
wind swept, storm driven sandals.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The art of satire is one that must be preserved at all costs, to those that seek its obliteration we must always be on guard against, the alleged well-meaning hides a darker, nastier, almost totalitarian streak. If this is left unchecked by the ability to observe and have the arsenal of absolute wit to dismantle the pompous and the arrogant it will become a bleak and despotic world, in which humour of any type, if not banned, will be vacuous, boring and will be used to oppress by being aimed at the wrong people, the poor and the undervalued in our society.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are few typically warm, lovingly affectionate, and genuinely positive welcomes to the Philharmonic Hall stage as there is joyfully reserved for what could be said to be the elder statesmen and women of the music world. The ones to whom kick started off the whole love affair with British pop music, to the ones who found fame not once, but over the course of different bands and outings, who made the crowd sing along to the best known, and sometimes more obscure, songs, the heroes of the 60s have always held a special place in the hearts of music lovers.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is arguably no man to have ever walk the Earth who didn’t see himself as the hero in somebody’s eyes at one point in his life, or at least hope that he could be, to play out in his mind the actions of assisting personally in the healing of the soul that has been damaged, to exact revenge on behalf of the injured party, or at least destroy himself in the process. It is the basis of the storm that rages inside, the young man’s belief that to die nobly for a cause is a far greater reward than to live ignobly forever writing of other’s success.
You are no Queen Cobra
and your beyond treason
to the cause, as you bite
down hard on my skin,
full of scales, makes you believe
you have won, beaten me
with tongue and the venom
that drops from gleaming
hypodermic needles
that infects me
and will kill me, but not before,
like the constrictor, heavy weight,
that I am,
I will squeeze with regrettable anger
in return
but take no satisfaction
in seeing us both become food for the bereaved.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Aaron Bladen, Elissa Cooper, Mica Young, Daniel Henry, Kieron Mason, Ian Smith, Laura Mutch, Catherine Kenny.
Musicians: Pete King, Daniel Greenwood, Luke Moore, Beth Pollard.
Depending on your age, you might remember the glares, even visual examinations, some men received when they came back from the fields, deserts and jungles of World War Two, perhaps even closer to home in time, the Falklands’ War, the sacrifices made on both sides of the divide in Ireland, any conflict where the senseless of killing another human being for being in a different coloured uniform is brought home in the eyes of the affected and the screams that burn into the hearts of their loved ones; these are the memories of the sneer, the accusations of somehow being less of man just because you don’t want to die.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The heavy hit of the late-night text message that doesn’t intend to harm, but yet without an answer, can cause stress to the intended recipient, all the thoughts of possible wrongs filter through their mind at a stream of knots that does the heart and soul no good. The agony of the doomed weight is only relieved when the conversation void is resumed The Day After, that the shift in the pattern of one thought exchange that we exhibit in this modern era is dangerous, an unrelenting enemy, and one that takes great courage to raise the red flag of vulnerability and beauty up the flag pole of precious engagement in warning.