Originally published by L.Media. May 27th 2012
L.S. Media Rating * * * *
Cast: Douglas Henshall, John Hurt, Kate O’ Flynn.
The opening moments of the latest Sky Arts one off dramas, The Snipist, draws on the fear of control and the misuse of information. The viewing is even more gritty and disturbing by having the disembodied voice of John Hurt relaying “the facts” of a Britain that has undergone a post-apocalyptic disaster when the deadly disease of rabies has got a foot hold in the country.
Originally published by L.S. Media. August 31st 2012.
Wheelchair Basketball has been part of the Paralympic Games since Rome in 1960 but as the national anthems of both Great Britain and Germany rang round the North Greenwich Arena, there couldn’t have been a set of prouder players on the court, of either nationality, since those halcyon days of the initial Paralympics.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson, Varada Sethu, Jonah Hauer-King, Anita Dobson, Jemma Redgrave, Ruth Madeley, Benjamin Chivers, Kirsty Hoiles, Gethin Alderman, Kareem Alexander, Michelle Greenidge, Angela Wynter, Faye McKeever, Madison Stock, Paddy Stafford, Blake Anderson, Aiofe Gaston, Paul Jerricho, Michael Woodford, Alexander Devrient, Tina Gray, Trinity Wells, Reeta Chakrabarti, Alex Jones, Lachele Carl, Joel Dommett, Calypso Cragg, James Craven, Selorm Adonu, Aiden Cook, Nicholas Briggs.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Moe Dunford, Tyger Drew-Honey, Mark Strepan, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Chelsea Halfpenny.
The Fourth Estate, the watchdogs and servers of accountability of government, law, and order, the press, whatever name you describe the journalists at the heart of many a tabloid exposure, one need not go too far to understand they have a complicity in the events of those quite rightly we deem unacceptable, reasoned with bad taste, and whilst they may be covering their backs as sales of newspapers fall worldwide, serve them with a juicy story and they could resort back to the days in which their ethics went out of the window and their imaginations run riot to the cost of human decency.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Jill Halfpenny, Rupert Penry-Jones, Amy Nutall, Ray Fearon, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Tessa Peake-Jones, James Fleet, Alex Macqueen, Larry Lamb, Megan Trower, Chris Gascoyne, Judith Alexander, Joel Beckett, Luke Hammond, Joel Kai Ali.
You cannot buy good neighbours, the kind where you live in harmony with each other 24 hours a day, seven days a week, nothing ever getting you down with those that live next door, across the street, or around the close to which your presence counts…and yet neighbourhoods are pots of unspoken jealousy, they are the breeding ground of infidelities and trysts, and they are closest spots in which spying on you is readily available…and relished.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Toby Stephens, Hugh Bonneville, Josh Stamberg, Matthew Wolf, John Standing, Lloyd Owen, Darren Richardson, Anne Mathias, Andre Sogliuzzo, Moira Quirk, Henrie Lubatti, Alan Shearman, Martin Jarvis.
The cinematic release in 2006 of Casino Royale is arguably one of the most dramatic of adaptions from any of Ian Fleming’s considerable list of tales that focus on the life of the British spy, James Bond. To capture that intensity in a radio drama could be considered a tough ask for the writer, for the director, and the consummate cast at his disposal.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Cate Blanchett.
To perform a monologue of over a certain length takes a huge amount of skill on behalf of the actor, whose voice must convey every emotion, and reveal every secret, and that of the writer, is an act of artistry that few can convey with a complete and utter resounding of detail in which the audience can feel the trust of the performance as being exposed as a confession, a sense of the sacred divine in human form.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
The feel of the raw emotion of the Blues in the 21st Century is now a given, the lean years of the genre firmly displaced in time, smoothed over as a gentle reminder to all that if you take a moment or a movement for granted then eventually it will grind to a halt and turn to dust; and yet the listener cannot but be helped drawn to a time when the Blues was at its zenith, the golden age of the sultry and the smoky bars, where imagination and the flow of music went hand in hand and leads you to front table by the stage, directly in the eye line of the steady and composed talent acting as the Muse and love for the night.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Christopher Chung, Annabel Brook, Luke Rhodri, Bethany Antonia, Gaz Choudhry, Gary Pillai, Franki Lipman, Paul Kasey, Jermaine Dominique, Anita Dobson, Amy Tyger, Meg Abernethy-Hope, Beyagy Demba, Umit Gozuacik.
There are episodes of Doctor Who that rank so highly that they will not be forgotten, and they all have one major thread in common, that of the near unseen ubiquitous horror that waits just out of sight or that possesses the power to control from within; all other villains of the tales from the blue box are to be feared, but they, these unseen beings that wonderfully spread dread in their wake, they are the truth of terror given the confidence of anxiety.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The phrase, so well-known, repeated, and misused by some who find ways to sneer at the moment in time that the Sex Pistols managed to install themselves briefly at the very centre of the storm that rightfully gave Britain the kick it needed to finally start pulling away from the Victorian straitjacket that had bound tightly to the sensibilities and rigid indoctrination of the public, somehow frames the three cd release of the band’s tumultuous time in the United States with a kind of consummate ease.