The Keeper Of Lost Causes, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter, Christoffer Aro, Claus Maack Bahnsen, Marie Hammer Boda, Nynne Bojsen, Rasmus Botoft, Ernst Boye, Michael Brostrup, Kenneth Carmohn, Marie-Louise Coninck, Divya Das, Katrine Engberg, Eric Ericson, Tilde Maja Fredriksen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Betina Grove Ankerdal, Anton Jarlros Gry, Anna Sofie Helligsøe Haahr, Tobias Stæhr Hansen, Anne Bærskog Hauger, Olivia Holden, Martin Boserup, Øyvind B. Fabricius Holm, Anton Honik, Dorte Højsted, Marijana Jankovic, Morten Kirkskov, Bebiane Ivalo Kreutzmann, Henrik Larsen, Per Scheel Krüger, Lane Lind, Claes Ljungmark, Magnus Millang.

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(569 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Josh Brolin, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven, Christopher Lloyd, Jaime King, Juno Temple, Stacy Keach, Marton Csokas, Jude Ciccolella, Jude Ciccolella, Jamie Chung, Julia Garner, Lady Gaga, Alexa PenaVega, Patricia Vonne, Bart Fletcher, Alejandro Rose-Garcia, Samuel Davis, Mike Davis, Kimberly Cox, Alcides Dias.

 

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(609 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

MouseCraft (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

MouseCraft is a platforming puzzle game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. The game is a result of the formula Tetris meets Lemmings as you guide the mice to the cheese at the end of the level by guiding the mice through various puzzles.

MouseCraft tells the story of a crazy cat scientist called Schrödinger who is attempting to create a mysterious machine powered by mice, which sees you having to guide mice through the course of eighty levels set across four stages with a variety of puzzles and hazards.

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(2601 words, estimated 10:24 mins reading time)

Peter Harrison, Memory And Remedy. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Memory can be an alien feeling, a series of synaptic misfires in which what you remember, perhaps selectively, is not the whole story; the blanks are filled into your advantage and the medicine of regret taken half-heartedly and with a grimace.

Memory can also be a cathartic beast, especially when used as an artistic expression in music, poetry, literature or art; it can be useful to in the endeavour of creation and is far more productive to the soul than the initial outburst of anger that comes from certain situations. The sombre and sober reflection casting its eye over the words, the stroke of paintbrush or the shrewd addition to a multitude of musical notes are memory enhanced and in Peter Harrison’s debut E.P., Memory and Remedy, recall and recollection have a new champion in which to listen to and admire.

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(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Mike Zito And The Wheel, Songs From The Road. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The people behind Ruf Records really have got to the very root of being able to capture the love of live music down to a tee. Not just on one artist, but on a collection of musicians who exemplify the point of seeing a band or solo artist live, striding the stage like ancient Athenian warriors ready to pounce on the admiration of the crowd with a small tickle of the guitar. Unlike ancient Athenians’ war like efforts, no blood is shed from the 21st Century axe but in the hands of Mike Zito and the Wheel, what is shed, what is let loose, is inhibition and what is gained is an emotional connection. In Songs From The Road, that connection is bought straight into the most inaccessible of arenas, that of the front room or dull long journey in which music is the only escape.

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(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Age Of Ultron, Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

When Henry Pym built the entity known as Ultron, nobody really could have foresaw what was going to happen down the line in the often convoluted but truly entertaining world of Marvel Comics.

Age Of Ultron is one of the graphic novels in which was always begging to be written, it would sit majestically alongside other crossovers that have thrilled Marvel fans across the ages and would be thought of in the same high esteem as perhaps Days Of Future Past and The Secret Wars…it is just a pity that high expectations doesn’t always play the same game that the reader’s minds wishes beyond hope that they would.

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(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Hilary Scott, Freight Train Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The train is perhaps the mode of transport most closely associated with romance. Not the modern train in which style has been replaced by the uncomfortable pursuit of getting from A to B without ever making eye contact across a table and the small sign of an innocent smile breaking the ice, but the train in which romance and heartbreak go hand in hand, in which a long journey goes by in the blink of a friendly eye or in which becomes part of life’s own dystopia and the stuff of great rock, country or folk songs.

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(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

For The Love Of A Hobo.

Of all the things I wanted to be

when I was young boy,

the jobs I imagined being able to do  with a

certain degree of satisfaction,

never mind at all

the wage

in which was not even a secondary factor

in my overwhelmed mind

as I never thought I would be married

and father children

of my own in which to foul up their lives,

the most appealing was the life of a Hobo,

or the tramp

when spoke in English tongue.

 

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

Pure Pool (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Pure Pool is a sports game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. It is most likely for gamers to have heard of Pure Pool’s developer and publisher as they are a perfect match with VooFoo Studios and Ripstone having previously worked together on Big Sky Infinity and Pure Chess, while VooFoo Studios have also developed Backgammon Blitz and had a previous foray into the world of pool with Hustle Kings.

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(4590 words, estimated 18:22 mins reading time)

Robert Reed, Sanctuary. Album Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some moments in Time are so perfect that they almost defy anything or anybody ever repeating the experience. To try and ever emulate the goal scoring ability of Kenny Dalglish would be near impossible, to match the passion, madness, extraordinary beauty and intensity that Vincent Van Gogh bought to the world of art should never be echoed and such should be said of Mike Oldfield’s seminal and musically comprehensive work Tubular Bells.

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(436 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)