Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Tom Hanks, Alexander Black, Sarita Choudhury, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Tracey Fairaway, Tom Skerritt, Jane Perry, Michael Baral, Lewis Rainer, David Menkin, Christie Meyer, Megan Maczko, Ben Whishaw, Kahalid Laith.
A mid-life crisis is to be expected, perhaps in many cases looked forward to as a chance to wreck havoc on the world around you and take apart your own life one carefully stacked brick at a time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Hannah McGowan, Esther Larkin, Jamie Brownson, Pete King, Ian Warburton.
The internet may be many things, it has the opportunity to mimic the human interactions of being a force for good and the huge potential for evil, it is the machine that is only as reliable as the content put in it and at times it makes you despair for the world and what people perceive they have to do to leave their mark on the fragile and scarred Earth.
Inside the space where the thoughts
are your own, where the brief
space between wondering
who the fuck we are
and what does it matter to anyone else,
in that cubicle, in that closet
and holding tissue to wipe away
the fear of passing
out when others demand to know
why you are using the toilet in Carolina,
surely all we should have to say,
all that needs to be said,
I am a girl,
I am a boy,
I identify with one,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Emily Chesterton, Sarah Folwell, Hayley Hampson, Miriam O’ Brien, Evangeline Pickerill, Katie Tyler.
Musicians: Elliot Chapman, George Francis, Arnar P. Stefansson, Alex Smith.
A time of Mini-skirts, of free love, of the start of the women’s movement as we know it, of responsibility and of great and lasting music; the 60s were where it began for many, Generation X was about to become arguably the finest age group yet and for those that suffered after post war austerity and to whom the new decade signalled social change. The 60s was a prelude for the melody and tunes to come and the shedding of the Victorian attitude which had damned previous generations.
The sun streams through the glass
as if trying to set the paper doilies
on our wooden bench
alight or at least spark into life
the broadsheet news that lays between us
and the sway of information,
the language barrier breaking down,
between the forties and the roaring
twenty-something who between them
understand that love is not
an emotion that signifies sex.
The sound of belly-ache
laugh ripples untidily
across the rip tide of tea
and the thought of cinema
going on overhead;
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Defiance and love cross many boundaries, they might be seen as an attitude, the well worn face of anger but what they do in many respects is to show the outside world that the person is actually being true to themselves, that the rebelliousness is just a deflection, a boldness of intent and one that should be grasped by so many erring on the side of youth. It is not disobedience, it is majestic non-compliance and it should be heard with greater force than it is across the land but one that is fully understood by the superb Jenny Colquitt.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Time can never be held back, save placing your own stamp upon your time upon the dust and mud, Time is the raptor that gnaws at your fingers and your memories to the point in which the clock, the love child of Time and regulated humanity, governs and snarls in perpetual motion. The only way to have an equal say in this one sided partnership, the only way to not let the seconds and hours dominate your day is to Smash The Clock, tear it down and put your own rules down, to live life to the limit that your heart will take and make it loud and meaningful.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Kenneth Brannagh, Bonnie Henna, John Kani, Tumisho Masha, Alex Fearns, Deon Lotz, Tessa Jubber, Lemogang Tsipa, Jeany Spark.
Corruption reaches everywhere in the end, political jealousy just makes it a harder subject to palate and stomach; for greed on such a scale makes those who fought for freedom and an end to suffering seem even more dishonest than those whose behaviour from the start was only self interest seem like the actions of choir boys sneaking a cigarette behind the vestments during Hymn practice.
The last words of the girl
as she laid herself down to die,
to drown in water,
lovelorn, love sick, driven mad
by an indecisive soul and one who
dismissed her and urged to attend
to more saintly needs, more virginal attire
and to praise a God that let her down,
these words were unheard
except by anyone who cares to listen
with intention, with thought in their minds
to hear quietly, the silent
mutterings of one driven
to the point of death;
hush now as she lays down
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, Jonas Armstrong, Anna Burnett, Lucy Cohu, Anna Koval, Matthew Lewis, Giacomo Mancini, Benjamin O’ Mahony, Killian Scott, David Threlfall, David Warner.
The streets of the East-End have known pain throughout their existence, the proximity to the docks, the burden of being so close to the capital of a country once steeped in historical value and now one of the mega cities, one that stretches beyond its natural borders and boundaries. At one time full of disease, rancour and malcontent, full of life and the firm grip of humanity sucking on its tender breast, a place of fascination and toil and yet at least for quite a few years, and despite the best attempts of many to introduce metaphorical ones, there are No Wolves in Whitechapel that require taming.