Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Whereas in recent years the sub-strata of characters that have made their way into the lives of Batman and Gotham City have been on the more colourful side of the nightmare situation that haunts D.C.’s favourite son, there is no getting away from the fact that there is one villain who has, and always will, dominated the thoughts of the reader and who is arguably more associated with his own nemesis than any other comic character created.
I showed her the poem that damns me,
that I cannot and dare not
ever publish
because by doing so, I consign you to death.
Nothing as brutal of actually placing your head upon the block
and watching the sliver of finest steel slice
through what remains of your ego-driven soul,
nor fastening the knot close to your throat
and watch you dangle forever,
your toes sliding across the floor
in quick rapid movements,
refusing sleep, refusing to ever keep
still…
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
William Harrison Ainsworth, the creator of the most famous Highwayman of all the dashing Dick Turpin, could not himself have come up with a more dashing hero than resides in the musician Jared James Nichols.
Life on the road is perhaps the pinnacle of a musician’s daily life. Away from the possibility of awards, of the dedication of the fans buying singles, E.Ps and albums, playing for a different crowd every night, performing for a crowd with energy to give and respect to unfold, an audience that at the end of the day surrenders their wares, perhaps their souls and certainly their time to by a figure just out of reach but who leaves them hopefully with something more important, hope.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Grace Stotter, Adrian Schiller, Natalie Press, Geoff Bell, Amanda Lawrence, Romola Garai, Finbar Lynch, Samuel West, Clive Wood, Annabelle Dowler, Simon Gifford.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz, Steve Valentine, Benedict Samuel, Stuart Fink, Yanik Ethier, Soleyman Pierini, Patrick Baby, Marie Turgeon, Clément Sibony, César Domboy, Mark Camacho.
There are some individuals in this world who when you come across them make you glad to be alive. Not for the passion of love, but for the sheer scale of their ambition to create something so unique that it can never be topped, something so artistic, so elegant, so completely and utterly insane that it screams with joy when you see it visualised.
You lay down and breathed,
you, a man caught up in a dream of elegance
and who visualised touching
eternity, who traced a line on which forever
was braced,
you breathed
and the world below
breathed with you.
As you looked towards the heavens,
the sky beneath your feet,
did you look for divinity in humanity?
Did you surrender the soul as you saluted the sky
and in a moments bliss know that nothing,
nothing,
nothing could take this feeling of accomplishment away
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
A writer, a poet or the scribe of combined lyrics and sweated out notes should never stop searching for a truth, should never allow the music that floats in their head to become stifled or desolate, to become as barren and featureless as the deserts or as bland as deep black space when there is no cosmos to stare in open-mouthed wonder at. The music should never be seen as suffocating or unbearable to be around, it should never consume to the point of being bled dry and if does, if it should manage to challenge this and win through, then it is time to either call it a day or walk away for a while and regroup.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * *
Cast: Mary Pearson
It is difficult to sum up what The Sand Dog Cometh is about, as American writer, actor and director of the show Mary Pearson has created something that is no doubt unique in its entirety. Running for just over an hour, Pearson crams it full with films of derelict Liverpool, sculptures of sand dogs and mad dance sequences. The madness creeps into the audience too, as at one point, popcorn is handed out and the crowd is encouraged to share and to get to know the neighbours, the people that sit with anonymity during the darkness of any theatre production, those we might not normally think of during any trip to the theatre. Pearson too, takes her seat amongst the audience and proceeds to shave her legs whilst serenading audience members.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Angela Griffin, Tim Piggott-Smith, Clare Holman, Ralf Little, Nicholas Jones, Steve Pemberton, Emma Cunliffe, Helen Schlesinger, Shanaya Rafaat, Andreea Paduraru, Naomi Scott, Finn Cole, Steve Toussaint, Paul Bigley, Doreen Mantle.
Just when viewers have got used to the thought that there might never be another reason to long for the quiet of Oxfordshire, to revel in the mystery of the Isis and the quaintness of Middle-class murder, I.T.V. reel back Detective Inspector Lewis, D.I. Hathaway and Detective Sergeant Maddox for another round of homicides in the leafy university city.
The long Bristol Road opens up before me like an exotic river,
one that as a child was out of bounds to the
future Oxfordshire estuary Selly Park boy,
living in the tributary that fed the equally
impressive cod feeding grounds of the Pershore Road mainstem
and yet one that became enticingly familiar
as I encroached down the affluence felt of Tiverton Road to go swimming,
or take up the football cause on the open space
of the wild and hauntingly beautiful ‘rec, daring myself
to venture into this other land plagued by family members