Midsomer Murders: Habeas Corpus. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Fiona Dolman, Gwilym Lee, Helen Baxendale, Emma Cunniffe, Alastair Mackenzie, Navin Chowdhry, Ty Hurley, Ciarán McMenamin, Clive Merrison, Sarah Middleton, Joseph Mydell, Diane Quick, Elizabeth Rider, Manjinder Virk.

Midsomer may have had more than its fair share of murders over the years, a record that is unlikely to be surpassed at any time in the near future, but it has never suffered from the ghoulish act of body snatching in that time and yet right underneath the noses of Lancaster family, the patriarch of the family is removed from his death bed and the body of proof is cleansed.

Midsomer Murders: Habeas Corpus. Television Review. full post

(396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Under Goodison Lights.

The roar of the crowd

under Goodison lights

sounds like local thunder,

as excitement grips this undervalued

part of Liverpool’s heritage,

the support of a team not remembered

in the karaoke bars of Japan,

or in the wild nights of the romantic

as they cling to a thought of red

glories past, under the beauty of

Shankly, under the watchful gaze

of Liverbird success.

 

The battle cry of opposition,

Blue Moon rings out, is as boisterous

as the words of sagely wisdom

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(142 words, estimated 34 secs reading time)

The Danish Girl, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alicia Vikander, Eddie Redmayne, Adrian Schiller, Amber Heard, Emerald Fennell, Ben Whishaw, Pip Torrens, Matthias Schoenaerts, Nicholas Woodeson, Sebastian Koch Rebecca Root, Henry Pettigrew, Richard Dixon, Sonya Cullingford.

The Danish Girl has been a film in the making for so long, that has had so many stars attached to it that it began to feel as though it might never materialise. Yet time has a way of making cinema goers wait for what could be seen as a groundbreaking and informative film, and they don’t come much more groundbreaking than a story about one of the first recorded gender reassignment procedures on record.

The Danish Girl, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Love Artuk On Ropewalk Square.

Love Artuk’s stamp of approval catches the eye

in Ropewalk Square and shades into  the oblivion

of graffiti of pleasant green,

down at heart blue and burnt brown

destruction on the lower level of the wall.

The uneven pavement, shrouded by the shadow

of Bold Street’s once Bohemian cool

and the grace of the Picturehouse,

thousands of films shown twice daily

extends its welcome as the steam

of coffee hiss drowns out

the fascinating talk of the Silver Screen surfers.

The five pillars of wisdom

sell their information cheaply

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(133 words, estimated 32 secs reading time)

Last In Line, Heavy Crown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When the barricades fall, when the moat is breached and the battlements tumble, what is left is the remaining line of defence, it is to those that salvation is sought and it is those that the fight is strengthened, fortified and resolute in their determination to hold the line so that the ignorant and the unaware cannot take over completely; there after all must be something worth living for.

Last In Line, Heavy Crown. Album Review. full post

(414 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Édgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini, Dascha Polanco, Elisabeth Röhm, Susan Lucci, Laura Wright, Maurice Bernard, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Ken Howard, Ray De La Paz.

Everybody has an idea; everybody has something to offer the world and should never be discouraged from attempting to bring it to fruition, to at least say they tried without having it rammed down their throat when the project goes wrong. The trouble is when money gets involved or when the scheme goes well, everybody wants a piece of the action and rather than congratulating the person, the bitter pangs of jealousy rear their head. Everybody has an idea, however the committee that thought Joy would make a great film seriously needs to look deep into their heart and ask themselves why they allowed it make it to the screen.

Joy, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Niagara Mist.

I dream of seeing the ice flows

of Niagara once more,

of seeing the reflection

of a youth long since departed

and the memory of a Wendy Burger,

wrapped against the cold wind

blowing down and across the chasm

of a separated land mass

and different train of thought.

 

I long to hear

the continuous sound

of nuclear explosive water

crashing eternally against

the rocks shaped by Time

below and the droplets of water,

rising off the pounding foam

and landing with daring precision

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(174 words, estimated 42 secs reading time)

In The Heart Of The Sea, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley, Tom Holland, Paul Anderson, Frank Dillane, Joseph Mawle, Edward Ashley, Sam Keeley, Osy Ikhile, Gary Beadle, Jamie Sives, Morgan Chetcuti, Charlotte Riley, Nicholas Jones, Donald Sumpter, Richard Bremmer, Jordi Mollà, Victor Solé, Nordin Aoures, Santi López, Christian Esquivel, Harry Jardine, Jamie Michie, Andy Wareham, Mark Southworth, Frans Huber, Christopher Keegan, Stephanie Jacob, Kierron Quest, Michael Cronin, Martin Wilde, Nick Tabone, Luca Tosi.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Endeavour: Ride. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Roger Allam, Shaun Evans, James Bradshaw, Jack Laskey, Anton Lesser, Sean Rigby, David Oakes, Lee Asquith-Coe, Jack Bannon, Samuel Barnett, Martin Bassindale, Margaret Clunie, Sam Coulson, Crystal Leaity, Ben Mansfield, Shvorne Marks, Louis Maskell, Martin Mayger, Robin McCallum, Hilton McRae, Caroline O’ Neil, Guy Potter, Dakota Blue Richards, Vincent Riotta, Lewis Rainer, Nick Sampson, Abigail Thaw, Joe Sims, Meghan Treadway, Dan Trotter, Jemima West.

Endeavour: Ride. Television Review. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Fixate Upon The Whale.

I chase my own whale

and watch with anxiety

as every quivering arrow

I throw to bring the behemoth down

just bounces off the barnacled skin,

not even a pierced mollusc

gets wrenched apart

from the scale of the task before me,

No Ahab, it’s not about obsession,

not like Ahab, I am no Ishmael

trapped in the belly of the beast,

I can walk away without the foul

taste upon my virginal tongue,

my fingers dry, the ink

of the leviathan

the only stain, oozing blue

Fixate Upon The Whale. full post

(154 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)