Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Alexandra Dowling, Rupert Everett, Hugo Speer, Paul McGann, Matthew McNulty, Sarah Smart, James Callis, Matt Stokoe, Laura Haddock, Olivia Poulet, Thalissa Teixeira, Allan Corduner, Harriet Thorpe, Lucie Cerna, Barbora Cerna, Monika Timkova, David Pearse, Michael Peavoy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, John Leeson, Simon Rouse, Tom Chadbon, Paul Panting, Emma Campbell-Jones, Laura Rees, Bryan Pilkington, Jane Slavin, John Banks.
The good old days of the multi-parter, where a story line could be really explored and taken beyond the realms of the expected 45 minutes, where the imagination not only gets fed, it is sated and not feeling as if it has been left out of the desert and wine list that inevitably follows a good dinner; all things are more possible in the land of the large and truly delved into story.
Walking through puddles, rain
soaked ends of trouser legs
that had swum gingerly
across the River Rae bridge,
the once gentle stream of summer’s past,
exhausted, dried out and the deposit
from long since removed factories
whose smoke deposits covered
the roof of our school
in a choking fit that came out in sympathy
with the janitor, puffing away after thirty fags,
this once gentle stream that I played Pooh
sticks in and examined the wild
life of insects copulating, woodlouse
turned over and then feeling guilty,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Jessie T. Usher, Bill Pulman, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward, William Fichtner, Judd Hirsch, Brent Spiner, Patrick St. Esprit, Vivica A. Fox, Angelababy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Deobia Oparei, Nicolas Wright, Travis Tope, Jenna Purdy, Ryan Cartwright.
Inevitable when you think about it, of course there would be a sequel to the glossy and fun Independence Day, the story line was just too enjoyable and fairly bonkers to not have left a film child behind somewhere in the dark, salivating over the prospect of taking a cinema audience on the road to yet another round with creatures from beyond our universe.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Jenny Slate, Kevin Hart, Ellie Kemper, Albert Brooks, Lake Bell, Eric Stonestreet, Louis C.K., Steve Coogan, Tara Strong, Dana Carvey, Jim Cummings, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Lori Alan, Laraine Newman, Carlos Alazraqui, John Kassir, Brian T. Delaney, Bill Farmer, Bob Bergen, Mona Marshall, John Cygan, Michael Beattie, Sasha Lester, Jan Rabson.
If only pets could talk, if all animals were able to tell us exactly what they want and why they want it, perhaps the world would be a hell of a lot nicer place to live; till that becomes a possibilty outside of science fiction, there will always be the strain of human misguidance and misjudgement when it comes to The Secret Life of Pets.
The fall of the house of fools,
all dead now, crushed under
the weight of expectancy
and dramatic insecurity,
was to be expected, for how is it possible
to keep a house above water
when you keep diverting the flow
and course; at some point
the foundations are always going
to cave in for the sand they are built upon,
will shift with the opinion
of those who rent the house.
Ian D. Hall 2016
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters, Tate Donavon, Ashley Benson, Kamal Angelo Bolden, Joey Sagal, Dylan Penn.
When a President meets a King it is with the possibility of diplomacy in mind, that deals are to be struck and offers of friendship talked over, normally with the idea of business in mind. When a President meets a King it is to smooth over mutual issues and create a shared and common goal, an interest that is beneficial to their respective countries. When a President meets the King, who knows what will happen inside the grandeur of the Oval Office.
Was it always like this?
Was it always such that we would
descend into a world of unethical treatment
of others just because we disagreed with them,
with their choices,
at the ballot box, that we would somehow lose
perspective, our senses in fair play
and be reduced to snarling, gutter tipped
wrench that makes our national
newspapers the epitome of self delusion
and intelligence harm;
was it always such, was it always the way,
that we could just be vile and get satisfaction from
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Jake Weber, Sarita Choudhury, Grace Gummer, Samantha Bee, Avi Nash, Matt Salinger, Michael Mantell, Daniela Lavender, Rajika Puri, John Hodgman, Randy Graff, Nora Hummel.
In times of trouble it takes faith to keep calm, to see the world beyond the mirror that has been put in front of you and look past the person you once were, to not give in under the pressure to the thought of the future; in times of trouble it takes faith to be who you are.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael, Bebe Cave, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Laura Pizzirani, Franco Pistoni, Guillaume Delaunay.
Be careful what you wish for, what lays in your deepest part of your heart, for inside the beating crevice where love may sit, instead comes bile and control, bitterness and bewilderment. By listening to the demons inside the head instead of the truth that you know, you condemn others to rebel and undermine your authority.