Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Rowena Cooper, Richenda Carey, Claudia Grant, Allison McKenzie, Jane Slavin.
When young women start go missing from St. Matilda’s College in Oxford, the police are to be summoned to help explain the disappearance; help arrives but not in the way it was expected, and neither is the sense of the problem at hand.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There may have been a time when many whose love of the music of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel may have feared that they would never again hear the voice that drove the New York pair to such great heights, it may have been a well founded fear but strength and purpose are funny bedfellows when adversity strikes. As the Philharmonic Hall audience sat down, the tingling excitement of hearing a legend in their midst and the trepidation of what could be flowing through every panic neuron in the brain, Art Garfunkel silenced even the stoniest of hearts and made love to the air that surrounded the stark bare stage.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Betsy Aidem, Ethan Philips, Jamie Buckley, Paula Plum, Nancy Giles, Susan Pourfar, Tom Kemp.
Woody Allen has the most innate ability to bring the peculiarities of death, of outraged calculated murder and righteous despair to any party and then show them to be the most perfect illusions and delusions of the mind. It is a rare quality to showcase an individual and their complete neurosis and give them hope and macabre playfulness.
How can Time play tricks so vivid
that the man with a voice of golden hue
can suddenly transport you
with tears dancing on the edge of burning Efrafa
to the ABC and surrounded by school friends
laughing, joking, ice cream spilling delight
and the tale of an ultimately doomed rabbit
which makes you weep so passionately
and with despair…
that the first looks of being considered fabulously odd
are to be heard and seen.
Sensitive…
too sensitive but for the man with
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It takes guts to continue when a lynch pin has been removed, when a much admired member of the band is no longer sadly part of the world and perhaps a reason for progressing is taken away; it takes magnetism, courage and style to keep the battle raging and strive for what is left still to achieve. In that alone Slayer, after losing the tremendous Jeff Hanneman, deserve credit for coming back with honest intent and grinding pulsating lyrical stance in their latest studio album Repentless.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cricket is all when it comes to some people’s lives and it is with little wonder when you consider that at one time the game, especially the Test arena, was seen by millions of people across British summer’s on the B.B.C. as a right and not as is now the case a preserve for those who are able to take, or even wish to procure, Sky Television’s Shilling.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tamzin Outhwaite, Larry Lamb, Dean Andrews, Christina Cole, Nadine Marshall, Sarah Crowden, Jonathan Forbes, Thaila Zucchi.
When a dying man’s house gets burgled, it sets off a chain of events that can only, and inevitably, lead to murder. It is a murder investigation that for the four members of U.C.O.S. has a giant riddle attached to it, just who exactly would want this solved when nobody is forthcoming about the victim.
My darkened room,
it was once the sanctuary in which music
sang out with fury and blasted
with intense and beguiling beauty,
a song for each occasion and with the speakers
encroaching as near as possible to my ears
and laying eggs
of a foundation to keep me sane,
in my darkened tomb.
Curtains never opened, they remain shut now,
closed to make sure the mole like sun
never peeks its snout through where dust clouds reign.
I like to see in the dark and let my eyes not
The constellations shine in the heavens, bright
and beautiful with the grace of powerful harmony
installed into them and the perfect stillness
as I sit and watch the glowing embers of the
three dozen blazing forty watt suns
in my view puts serenity and hope into my very being.
I wish you could see the five star domino,
Copper ringed Saturns I reflect upon,
the golden hue which is impossible to ignore
as they suspend themselves in the heavens
and give off meagre heat but to whom
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Quality is everything. It may be that as an artist you produce a song a day, place a poem before the world as it wakes up every morning, slave over an essay of 4000 words in which the core argument is lost, or even show black and white stills of images taken through the eyes of the camera lens every 24 hours, but quantity means nothing if the substance is found to be wanting, skeletal like and hungering for something to hang its chops upon.