Doctor Who: Time Heist. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Keeley Hawes, Jonathan Bailey, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Trevor Sellers, Ross Mullan, Mark Ebulue, Junior Laniyan, Samuel Anderson.

Think of the most precious commodity or product you can lay your hands on, how good it will feel in your hands and the power you could wield with it, the people you might be able to bend to your will for even just a glance of it. Such things are what drives the world and yet many miss the point, it is not about having the latest gadget in which to download a picture of a cat onto the internet, nor is it Time, which is a more noble outlook, but Love and acceptance and that is really what is at the heart of the latest Doctor Who story, Time Heist.

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

The Judgement Of Hakim. Theatre Review, Unity Theatre. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *

Cast: Nick Birkinshaw.

Testing Testing productions returns to the Unity with their mind-bending show The Judgement of Hakim. From the pen of Andrew Sherlock, he explores the idea of all of us being guilty of something, and how far we are willing to go to find it. The audience are very much a part of this show, and questions and accusations are made as to why we are here, what we have done and that nobody will get away with it; whatever ‘it’ may be.

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(320 words, estimated 1:17 mins reading time)

OlliOlli (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

OlliOlli is a side scrolling skateboarding and extreme sports game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Roll7 released OlliOlli on PS Vita in January 2014 to much critical acclaim and also winning GameSpot’s Game of the Month Award for January 2014, but the ultimate question has to be if the PS4 version improves on the foundations that were laid by the original PS Vita release.

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(2210 words, estimated 8:50 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Lenny Wood.

Lenny Wood sits down and smiles broadly with the assurance of a comic actor who knows just the right thing to put you at ease.  This young man has done so much in his life already that it doesn’t seem a surprise when you go through the list of achievements and plays that he has acting credits in.  The putting at ease is paramount when it comes to someone who can make you laugh with just flick of eyebrow, the right word, even off the cuff, in the right place and the ability to make to make any comic creation they play seem endearing and as someone you would want to be friends with.

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(1620 words, estimated 6:29 mins reading time)

Fables: Storybook Love, Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Love, for some a fairy tale, for others it is the start of a nightmare, a time in which everything they do is wrong and in which can lead to anguish, despair and hopelessness and yet in between the immensity of the emotions, something grand stirs, something in which the future can be held tightly.

For immortals love can be complicated, for a creature of the fairy tale, complicated doesn’t even cover it, it is more akin to placing your trust to a pyromaniac and asking them to make sure it doesn’t catch fire.

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(478 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Mr Big, …The Stories We Could Tell. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You can ask many things in life but asking the impossible is exactly that, something in which just you may as well lay down all your arguments and say, “Yes, just carry on and be magnificent, nobody will stop you telling your empowering and delicious tales.”

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(479 words, 1 image, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Little Sparrow, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool.

 

Little Sparrow at Leaf in Liverpool. September 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Little Sparrow at Leaf in Liverpool. September 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time has been described as many things, a snarling beast which needs to be tamed, perhaps even hunted down and taught a lesson or two, the great leveller in which all humanity is judged by its actions or even perhaps a companion, a trusted ally in which the truth of your life is carried. Time though can also be brutally obstinate, it can make visits to a venue in your city from a very talented singer/songwriter seem as though Ice Ages come and go with quicker frequency.

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(527 words, 1 image, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Laura James, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The candles that stand on the tables inside Leaf flicker with eager anticipation. The small draught that comes and goes as the lift that sits at the back of the hall above the clanking tea pots, the smell of food being cooked and conversations that had at the heart of them been spirited questions of the Scottish Referendum winds itself open to let out yet another selection of fans in time to see Laura James deliver a set that sat happily and comfortably with an enraptured audience.

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(400 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

The Avengers: The Lost Episodes. The Radioactive Man. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Anthony Howell, Julian Wadham, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Phil Mulryne, John Banks, Tim Bentinck, Beth Chalmers, Anjella Mackintosh, Richard Franklin, Kieran Bew, Colin Baker.

Some stories are just so timeless that they can be placed almost anywhere within a certain epoch and they would still resonate and be explosive as if set with a timer, a red and yellow wire attached and the words caution, contains volatile and unstable elements stamped in black broad letters on its outer box.

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(563 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Gravity Crash Ultra (PS Vita), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Gravity Crash Ultra is a twin-stick shooter game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita. The game is an enhanced port of the PS3 game Gravity Crash, which was released in November 2009 and for the PSP in July 2010.

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(2442 words, estimated 9:46 mins reading time)