Tag Archives: Adrian Rawlins

A Discovery Of Witches: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Trevor Eve, Owen Teale, Lindsay Duncan, Alex Kingston, Edward Bluemel, Sheila Hancock, Tom Hughes, Adrian Rawlins, James Purefoy, Gregg Chilingirian, Malin Buska, Aiysha Hart, Valerie Pettiford, Aisling Loftus, Tanya Moodie, Adelle Leonce, Sorcha Cusack, Steven Cree, Daniel Ezra, Jacob Ifan, Sophia Myles, Greg McHugh, Leo Ashizawa, Milo Twomey, Trystan Gravelle, Holly Aird, David Newman, Peter McDonald, Amanda Hale, Anton Lesser, Straun Rodger, 

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(582 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Grace: Dead Simple. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: John Simm, Rakie Ayola, Alisha Bailey, Richie Campbell, Alexander Cobb, Tom Weston-Jones, Silas Carson, Matt Wakeford, Maggie O’Neill, Adrian Rawlins, Matt Stokoe, Charlie Suff, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Cian Binchy, Catherine Bailey, Tiana Khan, Brad Morrison, Laura Elphinstone, Amaka Okafor, Vinny Dhillon, Natasha Joseph, Tim Treloar, Rebecca Scroggs, Diarmaid Murtagh.

Dead Simple, life certainly isn’t; especially when there is money and power involved.

Based on the novels by Peter James, Grace is the latest detective offering by ITV to give insight to the viewers of how police investigations often need a maverick to take risks when it comes to closing a particularly distressing murder or a case that baffles the sense of order.

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(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Susan Hill’s Ghost Story. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Douglas Henshall, Neve McIntosh, Louise Lombard, Adrian Rawlins, Casper Knopf, Maryam Hamidi, Cal MacAninch, Woody Norman, Paul Barber, Andrew John Tait, Calum Caulfield, Billy Thomson.

The issue with ghost stories that some might have has always been in the way the tale is resolved, like the mythical beast who sees the balance of power restored by the villagers below with one last gift offered to sate the taste of vengeance running in its blood. It is to this end that the typical ghost story ends the way it does, the murdered victim slipping away into the ether as the trembling confession is pulled from the mouth of the killer; it is neat and most of the time still leaves the viewer or reader with their own satisfaction sated.

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(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Chernobyl. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, Jessie Buckley, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Adam Nagaitis, Sam Troughton, Robert Emms, Karl Davies, Con O’Neill, Adrian Rawlins, David Dencik, Barry Keoghan, Ralph Ineson, Mark Lewis Jones, Ron Cook, Donald Sumpter, Alex Fearns, Jamie Sives.

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(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

War & Peace, Television Review. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paul Dano, Lily James, James Norton, Jessie Buckley, Jack Lowden, Aisling Loftus, Tom Burke, Tuppence Middleton, Callum Turner, Adrian Edmondson, Rebecca Front, Greta Scacchi, Aneurin Barnard, Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rae, Brian Cox, Kenneth Cranham, Gillian Anderson, Jim Broadbent, Kate Phillips, Olivia Ross, Thomas Arnold, Adrian Rawlins, Ken Stott, David Quilter, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Otto Farrant, Chloe Pirrie, Rory Keenan, Terence Beasley, Pip Torrens, Guillaume Faure, Ludger Pistor.

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(616 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

Innocent. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lee Ingleby, Daniel Ryan, Adrian Rawlins, Hermione Norris, Angel Coulby, Fionn O’Shea, Nigel Lindsay, Eloise Webb, Samuel Edward-Cook, Zahra Ahmadi, Hannah Britland, Christine Cole, Tony Gardner, Nicholas Asbury, Elliott Cowan.

To serve time, in any capacity, for a crime you didn’t commit; has to be arguably the most soul destroying, most seething with rage and contempt for your peers that you will ever feel, the emotions run high, the anger always at boiling point, and with no way to let off steam because you are locked away. The system, corrupt and dishonest, shakes your belief to the very core and no matter how hard it is to keep face, to show the world you are not beaten, the illusion of being Innocent soon slips away; society exacting its pound of flesh in revenge for the misdeeds you didn’t commit.

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

Darkest Hour. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily James, Ronald Pickup, Stephen Dillane, Nicholas Jones, Samuel West, David Schofield, Richard Lumsden, Malcolm Storry, Hilton McRae, Benjamin Whitrow, Joe Armstrong, Adrian Rawlins, David Bamber, Paul Leonard, David Strathairn, Eric MacLennan, Philip Martin Brown, Jordan Waller, Alex Clatworthy, Anna Burnett, Jeremy Child, Brian Pettifer, Michael Gould, Pip Torrens.

Few men in history can go through life without causing waves, without being the conversation of being somehow divisive, hated perhaps in equal measure as they are loved; it is the symbol perhaps of just how much drive a person can have in life, a thirst for adventure that makes them the figures they are.

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(577 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Hard Sun. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Agyness Deyn, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Derek Riddell, Richard Coyle, Dermot Crowley, Jojo Macari, Varada Sethu, Owain Arthur, Joplin Sibtain, Adrian Rawlins, Lorraine Burroughs, Aisling Bea, Ukweli Roach, Kae Alexander, Cameron King, Maggie Daniels,

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(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Dickensian, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tuppence Middleton, Stephen Rae, Sophie Rundle, Alexandra Moen, Joseph Quinn, Tom Weston-Jones, Pauline Collins, Robert Wilfort, Omid Djalili, Peter Firth, Jennifer Hennessy, Caroline Quentin, Richard Ridings, Anton Lesser, Laurel Jordan, Adrian Rawlins, Mark Stanley, Christopher Fairbank, Ned Dennehy, John Heffernan, Ben Starr, Brenock O’Connor, Bethany Muir, Phoebe Dynevor, Ellie Haddington, Richard Cordery, Wilson Radjou-Pujalte, Sam Hoare, Antonia Bernath.

To understand the present, you have to know what happened before, you have to know the story of how a person got to the position in life they inhabit on the day you met them, after that their life makes sense, it has significance.

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(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)