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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit, Casey Wilson, Missi Pyle, Sela Ward, Emily Ratajkowski, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Lisa Banes, David Clennon, Scoot McNairy, Boyd Holbrook, Lola Kirke, Cyd Strittmatter, Leonard Kelly-Young.

The female of the species is more deadly than the male, when it comes to Amy Elliott-Dunne, you don’t get much more deadly, you don’t feel the need more to make sure you never meet someone like them for if you do, you will be devoured, spat out and left to rot and it will be all blamed upon you.

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(755 words, estimated 3:01 mins reading time)

Juno And The Paycock, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

 

Niamh Cusack in June and the Paycock at the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre. Photograph by Stephen Vaughan.

Niamh Cusack in June and the Paycock at the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre. Photograph by Stephen Vaughan.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10Cast: Niamh Cusack, Des McAleer, Neil Caple, Jonathan Charles, Louis Dempsey, Donal Gallery, Maggie McCarthy, Aoife McMahon, Robin Morrissey, Maureen O’ Connell, Fionn Walton.

 

When you have nothing, you can only go one way, unless of course life conspires against you so much that all your efforts, all the trials you have endured come back to haunt you and you end up with less than you could have imagined.

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(554 words, 1 image, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Signs And Wonders. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Philip Olivier, Amy Pemberton, Jessica Martin, Warren Brown, Jemma Churchill, Rory Keenan.

There are times, admittedly as rare as a Gallifryian rocking horse needing to excuse itself to go to the toilet, when the most manipulative of all the incarnations of The Doctor is just that little too calculating for his own good, that’s when the listener knows that they are in for a really decent ride of a story line with the Seventh Doctor and perhaps it is fitting that long standing writer Matt Fitton is the deliverer of all the problems heaped upon Hector, The Doctor and Ace in the very cool audio drama, Signs and Wonders.

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(656 words, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

Erja Lyytinen, The Sky Is Crying. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

One of the being alive in the 21st Century is finding more and more music in which to take a certain degree of delight in. Not only in the extravagantly opulent amount of new songs paraded by people with something extraordinary fighting in their soul, the ones that refuse to lay down and take a metaphorical punching from successive people underestimating their age, their attitude, stance or particular opinion on a subject, but also in the fact that never before has so much been available from every decade, every century in which the combination of right tones, breathes and flickering beauty has been captured.

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(542 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Modest Midget, Crysis. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Crisis! What Crisis? It may as well be the rallying call to what could at times be perceived as a beleaguered music industry, under pressure to constantly deliver in many cases the same sterile underwhelming stereotypical crass commercialism and in which makes the two ends of the spectrum just as much at fault as those who queue up and proclaiming it’s always been their dream to be a singer; possibly having had that dream since the first read that any of the many so called talent shows were going to be in town. On one side you have that, run by people who seem hell bent to destroy music from television’s side and then you have the likes of Bono and U2 giving their music away for nothing, well aside from the hefty cheque from online music fronts that is.

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(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Grant Nicholas, Yorktown Heights. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You don’t have to go to Yorktown to hit the heights but to record a solo album full of instantly enjoyable songs, of tracks in which pathos, regret and hope go arm in arm and shove with purpose and some undisguised personal violence at the imagery of the past, then perhaps Yorktown Heights is the place in which solitude and rememberance are two adjoining emotions with a clear view of a possible future that lays ahead.

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

Doctor Who: The Mask Of Tragedy. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Philip Olivier, Samuel West, Alisdair Simpson, Russell Bentley, Tim Treloar, Emily Tucker.

Heroes, true heroes, those that seek no recompense for their actions in saving someone’s life and see no honour in reminding others what they have done for them in the past are so rare, so infrequent; that it is hardly surprising that tales of epic valour seems to be steeped in antiquity and legend. For those in ancient Greece, tales of heroes were what gave the collection of disparate nations and its people hope in times of war, pestilence and the invention of Greek comedy and one of its Godfathers, Aristophanes.

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(508 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Luftrausers (PS Vita), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5 out of 10

Luftrausers is a side scrolling arcade aerial combat dogfighting game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita and PS3. The game started out life as a popular Flash game called Luftrauser in 2011 before gradually being redefined and having new content built on top of it in between other projects Vlambeer were working on at the time to substantially improve the overall experience.

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(1598 words, estimated 6:24 mins reading time)

New Tricks: In Vino Veritas. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Tamzin Outhwaite, Dennis Waterman, Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Niamh Cusack, Phil Davis, Jack Ellis, Tom Georgeson, Pinar Ogun, Jan Knightley, Adam Astill, Alan Bayer.

A bottle of wine or champagne, for those who pay scant regards to such things, somehow can drive a person to more obsessive behaviour, can cause a person to murder and be underhand more so perhaps that religion, politics and for the promise of love from a calculating, cold beauty could ever manage to be.

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(391 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Sunjay. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is one way to describe the first aural sensation in which the ears hear the musical tones of Sunjay Brayne, one tiny word in which holds a myriad of thoughts, a single utterance in which musical confusion is dispelled and waved away like a fine mist is dispelled by the action of a fan, it is just simply marvellous.

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(483 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)