Marvel: Zombies. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Iman Vellani, Todd Williams, Florence Pugh, Elizabeth Olsen, Awkwafina, David Harbour, Paul Rudd, Tessa Thompson, Hailee Steinfeld, Dominque Thorne, Kerry Condon, Kenna Ramsey, Kari Wahlgren, Simi Liu, Randall Park, Feodor Chin, Wyatt Russell, Rama Vallury, Hudson Thames, Greg Furman, Adam Hugill, Daniel Swain, Sheila Atim, F. Murray Abraham.

One of the most intriguing episodes of the animated What If? series from the great American comic house of Marvel, is surely the one that delved into the world of horror as Zombies overwhelmed and desecrated the ranks of the heroes that the fans adored, leaving only a rag tag bunch to fight Wanda Maximoff as her new persona, that of The Red Queen.

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

Alien: Earth. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson, Timothy Olyphant, Adarsh Gourav, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Jonathan Ajayi, David Rysdahl, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, Sandra Yi Sencindiver, Kit Young, Michael Smiley.

Alien is quite rightly considered one of the most important films to have graced the cinema and home viewing apparatus ever; a combination of science fiction and horror to which many have tried to emulate, and failed, be it by just a degree or full hearted collapse, the direction of Ridley Scott and the screen writing of Dan O’ Bannon was just too potent a force to ever truly equal.

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

Various Writers: The End Of The World As We Know It. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are books that perhaps define a generation with a greater sense of unfathomable fear than others; the late Victorian age for example, obsessed with standards and the in-built contempt for the so-called lower orders saw disease and unregulated, unprotected sex as the reason why civilisation would eventually fail and rot, and which they arguably saw in the Gothic spine tingling and ungodly, to their mind, Dracula.

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(545 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

High Cockalorum. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Monica Dolan, Goldie Crane.

The strangest of encounters often make for the finest stories to be told, the random, the most unexpected, the implausibly surprising, these intersecting stumbling’s into another’s orbit are to be cherished by all as they prove a truth of life, that those we meet in a one off moment in time have been placed before us to perhaps make an amends elsewhere in our lives; this truth is expanded when it comes to those we perceive as an idol, a hero maybe, someone to whom we look to as a star in our eyes and who we know so much about, but who might only be in our lives for less than a day.

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

The Count Of Monte Cristo. Television Drama Series Review. (2025).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Sam Clafin, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Jeremy Irons, Ana Girardot, Blake Ritson, Karla-Simone Spence, Lino Guanciale, Michele Riondino, Gabriella Passion, Harry Taurasi, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Nicolas Maupas, Amaryllis April Maltha August, Jason Barnett, Nicholas Farrell, John Ioannou, Martina Laird, Matthew Wilson, Steven Pinder, Kate Woodman, Simone Zambelli, Ben Moor, Bastien Fontaine-Oberto, Luke Carroll, Méghane De Crook, Robin Greer, Louise Gold.

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

Deacon Blue: Gig Review (2025). M & S Bank Arena – Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The show must go on, its part of the process, the grief must find an outlet, and by doing so the road we walk upon becomes one of a newfound exploration of how to see life through the lens of a greater appreciation of life and the mystery of the unknown.

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

The Annie Keating Band: Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Annie Keating deserves the attention of the majority of music lovers, the best of the unknown warrior to whom the weapon of guitar and lyrical drama can bring forth sparks and the sound of ancient fought battles and then just as easily, just as candidly, wrap the resulting combat in clothes of purity and the essence of serene culture and belief.

The Brooklyn based singer songwriter, whose studio albums have included the superb Bristol Country Tides, Make Believing, and the sublime Hard Frost, seeks to exemplify her soul’s desire by releasing in the sense of the raw and guided pleasure – The Annie Keating Band: Live recording.

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(389 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Various Artists: Too Many Roads (Restless Hearts Covered). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Well told stories never end, they find ways to adapt, to reach out with greater intensity and love, their emotions heightened by the continual appreciation and the way that others interpret the tale for others to hold on to and spread the word. If only we could all hold that type of power, that sense of engaged passion that others seek out, and for one of Liverpool’s most elegantly gifted songwriters, John Jenkins, his latest album, released in July, sees a wonderfully creative adaption conceived by the equally respected Jim Pearson, unveiled.

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

David, From Selly Park.

I’m not ready to say farewell

to the boy

from Selly Park

of integrity and standards

that far outweigh my own,

and yet I know he last said

goodbye to me in his own voice

on a distant date

that I didn’t remark upon at the time

but which now has been replaced with a softer,

unknown tone to which is filled with love

and smiles,

but which isn’t my Dad’s.

He looks like the one who hoisted me on his shoulders,

who cheered me on

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(316 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Jonathan Markwood’s Hoo-Hah Conspiracy: St. Milburga’s Well. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The well of inspiration never runs dry if we are able to manage the expectation of quality and quantity to its full potential, we can draw upon it for all our life, watering our surroundings, nourishing our soul, feeding us that which spurs into action when we wish to consider art is above all and bathe in its beauty.

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