A Bigger Splash, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fienes, Matthais Schenaerts, Dakota Johnson, Aurore Clément, Lily McMenamy, Corrado Guzzanti, Elena Bucci.

The world of the Rock star, the chameleons of the stage who give so much of themselves to the world and who don’t notice until it is perhaps too late just how much has been taken, how much has been eroded away, sometimes find they have become pale imitations of themselves and the need to retreat becomes not only a tantalising thought but one of necessity.

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(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Deadpool, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Karan Soni, Ed Skrein, Michael Benyaer, Stefan Kapicic, Brianna Hildebrand, Style Dayne, Kyle Cassie, Taylor Hickson, T.J. Miller, Randal Reeder, Isaac C. Singleton Jr, Morena Baccarin, Hugh Scott, Gina Carano, Stan Lee, Rob Hayter, Jed Rees, Leslie Uggams.

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(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

We Are The Diseased.

We are the diseased generation

blown apart

by those who sought to destroy

the revolution, who told us our ideals

were wrong, who told us we could not,

under any circumstances, be allowed

to live a life unoccupied by the thought

of the bullet and the bomb,

of the starving masses knocking

at the door, of propaganda bitten chewed,

enshrined and made law, offered on a rusty

plate, bacteria hiding, syringed

into each delicate flower adorning

the rim and scraped clean, licked spotless

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(259 words, estimated 1:02 mins reading time)

Paula Ryan, Let Me Fly. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The air of mystic vibration quivers gently in the air, the sound of artistic Gaelic freedom plays with anticipation and the deep longing that fierce independence can bring. The insightfulness and passion for Irish roots is nothing short of overwhelming, the emotions of being able to implore the words Let Me Fly forever entangled in the heart; three words that are ingrained in the soul of Paula Ryan and to whom are thrust into the heart of anyone spending time listening to this, her latest album.

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(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

I Know All The Secrets In My World, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Samuel Nicholas, Solomon Israel, Michelle Asante.

By talking we are able to express our emotions, our fears, our doubts and concerns with greater clarity than we ever can by the silence that surrounds us. At times though grief is so overpowering that the simple things like laughter, joy and love can only be shown by the quiet and hushed up screams. The internal rage and sorrow of loss can only ever be expressed by non verbal communication and it affects us more than we realise.

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(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

More Light, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *

Cast: Billy Czajkowska, Isobel Balchin, Abigail McKenzie, Nuala Maguire, Alice Corrigan, Ian Cook.

Bryony Lavery’s play More Light tells the story of the recently deceased Chinese Emperor who, in order to keep the location of his tomb a secret had not only himself encased within the tomb but his entire army of craftsmen, builders and his finest courtiers. Also immured are his five young infertile wives. These women have had the best food and lived secure and luxurious lives, but now they are faced with making the most horrendous decisions in order to stay alive. Human behaviour pushed to the very limits are explored in this dramatic hour long performance directed and performed by YEP (Young Everyman Playhouse.)

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(324 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: Saints And Sinners. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman, Manjinder Virk, Jonathan Aris, Julia Sawalha, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Srafano Braschi, Adam Gillett, Ralf Little, Gabrielle Lloyd, Edward MacLiam, Pippa Nixon, Ruth Sheen, Malcolm Sinclair, Kim Vithana.

Brothers at war over the truth, a village facing a type of unprecedented, a kind of spiritual extinction and turmoil as three different factions start a fight over the remains of a woman long since dead and the pilgrimage, faith and act of monetary devotion that criss-crosses them all; it is just another case for D.I. Barnaby as the Saints and Sinners flock together in Midsomer Murders.

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(435 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

A Dead Horse Is Easy To Flog.

I cried in front of thirty odd class mates

on the day that they sent Boxer down

and I took, begrudgingly, the teenage

ribbing and piss take

that followed for around a week,

until someone else slipped up

and they left me alone to brood

on the glue factory and death

of a noble horse.

 

It didn’t bother me when I

found out around the same time

sentimental age

that Native Americans and the cold

people of the North used

fish to make their glue, it didn’t impact

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(226 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

The Massive Tragedy Of Madame Bovary!, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Emma Fielding, John Nicholson, Javier Marzan, Jonathan Holmes.

There will always be the book, the classic pieces of literature that everybody has heard of and to whom as a single person people will believe they know what it is about down to hearsay and speculated knowledge; it won’t have been read but it will be understood by reputation alone. It may be understood for what it is known for but it won’t be comprehended or valued until it is actually read first hand and then it fits into place that what you know, is nothing like what you know.

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(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Ina Forsman. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

From seemingly out of nowhere a fresh breeze can offer hope of spreading a scorching fire further than it might have ever intended and for Ina Forsman and her debut self-titled album, that fire is alive, charming and an stylish reminder of a time that many may have forgotten about.

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(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)