Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
In the modern world it could be said that we have no mystique left, that we are all guilty in some way or another of sharing too much about ourselves in the digital spectrum, that people now not only see us naked physically but also uncovered in our thoughts also; the inhibitions banished to the social network winds and no longer we stand as anything but skin, bone and dissected illusion.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Kenneth Williams, Denis Ménochet, Ariane Labed, Essie Davis, Matias Varela, Callum Turner, Carlos Bardem, Javier Gutiérrez, Hovik Keuchkerian, Crystal Clarke, Michelle H. Lin, Brian Gleeson, Julio Jordán, Rufus Wright, Angus Brown, Kemaal Deen-Ellis, Aaron Monaghan, Thomas Camilleri, Marysia S. Peres, Jeff Marsh.
Not everything has to make sense in the world of cinema, it is the illusion after all many felt happy to fall in love with, however when it comes to making a good film, one that captures the imagination, the best way to engage with the audience is not to offer it something that is so unrealistic it hurts to watch and it is painful to conceive the planning meeting in which it was approved.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Lewis MacDougal, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Ben Moor, Oliver Steer, Liam Neeson, Dominic Boyle, Jennifer Lim, Max Gabbay, Morgan Symes, Max Golds, Frida Palsson, Wanda Opalinska, Patrick Taggart, Geraldine Chaplin, Lily Rose Aslan Dogdu.
The prospect of losing someone so very close to us is perhaps the most primal feeling we can possess, it consumes us inside and out, it makes us say words we don’t mean and commit actions that are beyond what we would normally consider respectable. To face up to that day when we lose a parent is perhaps even more consuming, never mind if we actually get along with them, whether we love them or haven’t spoken for years, to lose the ones that brought you into the world has a devastating effect, especially on a young impressionable mind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Steve Pemberton, Aisling Loftus, Simon Nagra, Michael Obiora, Tom Price, Amit Shah, Glen Webster, Jo Wheatley, Sara Crow, Maxim De Villiers, Stirling Gallagher, Sean Gallagher, Susan Hampshire, Stephen Hawke, Vanessa Hehir, Raj Awasti, Navider Bhatti.
There are many ways to die in Midsomer, some so gruesome, so shocking that it is any wonder that people don’t move to the county just for the thrill of finding out what ingenious way they will perish at the hands of a potential murderer. Few though will expect to find themselves seeing their last visions of Earth, taking in the scenes of their final moments on Earth surrounded by rabbits.
I was once asked
to take part in
a telefon;
“It would be fun”
they said with their eyes gleaming
and perfect smiles,
“You will raise lots of money
for charity
and feel great about yourself.”
Imagine how stupid I felt
after training hard
when I found out
that I didn’t have to run those
twenty six miles
dressed as an old
G.P.O. phone.
Ian D. Hall 2017
The sign above the door proudly stated the commercial and the endearing truth, “It all started here”, one of the city’s music ambassadors, Ian Prowse, reflects in his song Does This Train Stop On Merseyside that a lay line runs down the very street the club is situated upon and to many, whether in the heyday of the Mersey Sound with bands such as The Beatles, Gerry and The Pacemakers and The Swinging Blue Jeans permanently filling out the venue or to modern day audiences who find themselves in a slightly different version of the brick built cellar but still immerse themselves in the music provided over the years by such bands and artists as The Fast Camels, Steve Hogarth, Fish, The Arctic Monkeys, Adele and Whisky Ginger Johnson; regardless of the era The Cavern is a musical shrine to the best and the beautiful who have and who still wish, to perform in Liverpool’s most iconic music venue.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To embrace the words of a different culture is to allow yourself to feel human and not wallow in the same rut, the same catastrophic spell that stagnates and festers till there is nothing but boredom and mischief in the heart. To embrace a different side to the story, does not mean you have abandoned your own tale but it is the hope that every so often something from another point of view will create even more understanding in your heart.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Any anniversary is worth celebrating, in a world where from one day to the next the transient nature of life sees people move on, move away, forget a project, forget the things they once loved, to even get to a year in the same place, offering the same vision and clarity is to be celebrated hard. When that vision has been illuminating minds for fifty years, when it has been thrilling, tantalising and making hearts break and fall in love for that amount of time, then celebration is not enough, it is a memorial, a commemoration of all that is good in the world.
I wish I could see the Mersey floor
and touch the greatness
that the city of Liverpool
is built upon,
the pounding heart
that sweeps in daily,
lucid dreaming,
hard fact reality in which nothing beautiful
is ever truly forgotten;
this Mersey providence
full of Mercy,
full of hope, I wish
I could be part of it.
Ian D. Hall 2017
I’m afraid I don’t do Rugby, of either code
except when it comes to watching England V Scotland
and the odd par-taking
of a World Cup; sport for sports sake, not my bag
or ball it seems,
despite having had a teacher at school who insisted
in one of those terrifying end of year reports
that I was more suited to the game,
a natural player, I nearly laughed as I read it
on the way home, so not my cup of tea,
despite having had the honour of watching