A Widow’s Last Day.

Hush! Widow, you are dying now!

All you have achieved and discarded, will in Time

turn to dust that collects around the annals of long

forgotten history books, their lessons not heeded.

 

You are slipping away, the testament of the lengthy chains

that bind you to Humanity’s thought, even those that loved you

with a passion and romance filled spirit for the beige

you sometimes offered between the highs and lows

of what could be seen as a worryingly megalomaniac disposition.

However, like Lear, your time is ending soon

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(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

The Tower

I saw a tower

It laughed me into submission

But that’s okay

I found I could still smile

 

I was in a tower

It talked me into submission

But that’s okay

I found I could still smile

 

I was locked in a tower

I questioned my submission

It was too late

They were rounding up my friends and family

 

I was brought from the tower

I smiled at the block

My legs wanted to give way

All I am is my love

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(91 words, estimated 22 secs reading time)

Exodus: Gods And Kings, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, Maria Valverde, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver, Hiam Abbass, Isaac Andrews, Ewen Bremner, Indira Varma, Golshifteh Farahani, Ghassan Massoud, Tara Fitzgerald, Dar Salim, Andrew Tarbet, Ken Bones, Hal Hewetson.

 

For the more sceptical age we find ourselves in, where the world has become more polarised in its disbelief’s as it has in its religious fervour, there is surely room for more interpretation of a contentious event than ever before.

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(605 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

Krave, Uncivilised, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is perhaps Humanity’s greatest failing that we see something or a race of people that we don’t understand and believe ourselves to better cultured and educated than they ever could be or arguably have the right to be. It is a systematic failing, a supreme moment of arrogance that belittles us all. It makes us feel superior when we don’t have the right, an uncivilised civility that shows its self arguably more in the world of art than any other.

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(530 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

The Boy In The Dress, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast Billy Kennedy, Temi Orelaja, Jennifer Saunders, James Buckley, Tim McInnerny, Felicity Montagu, Steve Speirs, Meera Syal, David Walliams, Aaron Chawla, Rosheen Hinze, Oliver Barry-Brook, Emma Cooke, Harish Patel, Sonny Ashbourne Serkis, Kate Moss, Gary Lineker, Alex Thomas.

The Boy in the Dress is one of those heart-touching moments of British television that no doubt will split the vast majority of Christmas viewers. It will inevitably also have those that purposefully avoided it have mini rages into their early morning cups of tea and spitting in annoyance at the thought of such a diverse subject being given air time.

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(644 words, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Dark Eyes 3. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Paul McGann, Alex MacQueen, Ruth Bradley, Nicola Walker, Sean Carlsen, David Sibley, Georgie Fuller, Geoffrey Breton, Natalie Burt, Sacha Dhawan, Sarah Mowat, Laura Riseborough, John Banks, Jonathan Forbes, Beth Chalmers, Georgia Moffett.

 

The Doctor and The Master, a tale of perpetual war and distrust between two titans of Gallifrey and all those caught between them. Whether it is Jo Grant, The Cybermen, Tegan Jovanka’s aunt, the citizens of Logopolis or even Adric, nobody and no one benefits in this private war and certainly not the woman who has become the latest buffer between the former friends, Molly O’ Sullivan.

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(680 words, estimated 2:43 mins reading time)

The Tower

 I saw a tower

It laughed me into submission

But that’s okay

I found I could still smile

I was in a tower

It talked me into submission

But that’s okay

I found I could still smile

I was locked in a tower

I questioned my submission

It was too late

They were rounding up my friends and family

I was brought from the tower

I smiled at the block

My legs wanted to give way

All I am is my love

 

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(88 words, estimated 21 secs reading time)

Dumb And Dumber To. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10

Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle, Laurie Holden, Rachel Melvin, Steve Tom, Don Lake, Patricia French, Kathleen Turner, Gregory Fears, Bill Murray, Paul Blackthorne, Brady Bluhm, Lindsay Ayliffe, Eddie Shin, Tembi Locke, Atkins Estimond, Tommy Snider, Michael Yama, Nancy Yee, Grant James, Taylor St. Clair.

Some sequels are so well worth waiting for that the time elapsed between films only adds to the excitement of what will unfold as you finally take your seat. Like the Back to the Future trilogy, these films only give the audience that extra tingle as they see characters they have loved come back and take their lives on yet another tantalising journey.

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(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Big Eyes, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, Terrance Stamp, Jon Polito, James Saito, Guido Furlani, Madeleine Arthur, Delaney Raye.

True life is a far stranger ideal than fiction could ever hope to emulate and perhaps one of the most complex of lives and relationships of the 20th Century was between the supremely talented Margaret Keane and her plagiarist, obscenely greedy and mentally abusive ex-husband, Walter Keane.

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(579 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Wilko Johnson/Roger Daltrey, Going Back Home. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

They are rightly lauded as two of the finest of their generation. Roger Daltrey and Wilko Johnson are not just iconic, they are recognised as culturally eminent and at times, depending on what newspaper/magazine or ill-informed comments you decide to listen to, as equally famous and infamous as two ambassadors of British music can be.

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(646 words, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)