Tag Archives: David Warner

The Secret Of Crickley Hall. B.B.C. Television. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall, David Warner, Sarah Smart, Iain De Caestecker, Olivia Cooke, Maise Williams, Bill Milner, Kian Parsiani, Pixie Davies.

It seems odd that the premier 20th century British horror writer, James Herbert, has never had many adaptations of his copious amount and in most cases prestigious work. What has been filmed has been woeful at best and an affront to British Horror at its seedy worst. For the B.B.C. to pick up the option to one of the great writer’s latter works, the sadistic and suspenseful The Secret of Crickley Hall is a coup for both writer and television viewer.

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(510 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

The Secret Of Crickley Hall. Part Two. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall, David Warner, Sarah Smart, Iain DeCaestecker, Olivia Cooke, Maise Williams, Bill Milner, Kian Parsiani, Pixie Davies, Donald Sumpter.

The second part of Joe Ahearne’s adaptation of James Herbert’s The Secret of Crickley Hall sees the tension stoked up as the malevolent force of Douglas Henshall’s Augustus Cribben starts to take more of a hold on the lives of the young family that resides in the former orphanage.

The Secret Of Crickley Hall. Part Two. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

The Secret Of Crickley Hall (Part Three). B.B.C. Television. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall, David Warner, Sarah Smart, Iain DeCaestecker, Olivia Cooke, Maise Williams, Bill Milner, Kian Parsiani, Pixie Davies, Donald Sumpter.

The final part of James Herbert’s acclaimed supernatural thriller, The Secret Of Crickley Hall, contained one of the most shocking scenes in recent memory on television and even though the scene was short, the chilling sight of children on the floor would have struck a nerve with anyone who has read anything of the disposal of human bodies during World War Two. Unnerving and it stuck in the craw but it proved to be an incredible piece of story-telling adapted for television by Joe Ahearne and for that the B.B.C. and the cast of the three part series deserve high credit for their acting.

The Secret Of Crickley Hall (Part Three). B.B.C. Television. Television Review. full post

(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Second Sight. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Blair McDonough, Anna Skellern, Lisa Bowerman, Patience Tomlinson, Clare Calbraith, Duncan McInnes, Angela Bruce, David Warner, Susannah Harker.

Change, even in the art of the bluff, can be one that leaves a chill ready to descend down the spine, the sense that the transformation you are about to encounter is going to be too much to either bare, or which will leave you with feelings of disappointment wrapped up in the embrace of the immediate let down.

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

Sapphire And Steel: Perfect Day. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Mark Gatiss, Victoria Carling, Philip McGough, Daniel Weyman, Matthew Steer, Caroline Morris.

Humanity has an unnerving ability to create havoc and pressure on itself that in the individual comes across, at best as anxiety, at worst domineering deflection, the trauma of a past event manifesting itself as control, of wanting supposedly the best for someone in your life but directing, supervising every minute detail of the event in question, that they are left on the point of mental suffocation, of supplicating their own desires for the safety of keeping quiet so as not to cause an argument.

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

Sapphire And Steel: Cruel Immortality. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Muriel Pavlow, Daphne Oxenford, Ian Burford, Lois Baxter, Lucy Gaskell, Steve Kynman, Lisa Bowerman, Nigel Fairs.

Tied by the clock, humanity seems to be regulated to go from the cradle to the grave checking the clock, counting down the hours religiously, almost with devotion and loyal consistency, till we put up our feet and let the final hours swim past in smiles and surrounded by memories.

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(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Water Like A Stone. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Lisa Bowerman, Nicholas Briggs, Lucy Gaskell, Susanne Proctor.

One of the great promises of any artistic production is that it can be described as timeless, that the emotion of the piece is found to be intense, that it goes beyond the sense of the abiding comfort and routine and finds a place where the balance between revolutionary and eternal are met with expectations fulfilled.

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(396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: The Lighthouse. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Joseph Young, Neil Salvadge, Ian Hallard, Lucy Beresford, Michael Adams, Stuart Piper.

The lies we tell ourselves, the secrets we keep in our mind, are the endless triggers for Time to leak from the past and into the future, and what we may believe is our own private self being protected from admitting our failures, the darkness within, it has a habit of spilling out, thanks to Time, and infecting others, putting lives in mortal danger.

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(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: All Fall Down. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, David Collings, Michael Chance, Kate Dyson, Suzanne Proctor, Linda Bartram, Neil Cole.

Time is full of tricks, it has the ability to knock humanity off its perch repeatedly and humble the species to the point where it doubts itself and can turn against rhyme and reason in the pursuit of self-satisfaction and self-interest.

Sapphire And Steel: All Fall Down. Audio Drama Review. full post

(356 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Daisy Chain. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Kim Hartman, Lena Rae, Stuart Piper, Emma Kilbey, Joseph Lidster.

When the question is posed by a force or instrument of evil or dangerous intent, “Would you sacrifice yourself to save your family?, for the majority of us we would perhaps not hesitate to answer in the positive, that we gladly give our lives if it meant that those we love around us were to survive.

Sapphire And Steel: Daisy Chain. Audio Drama Review. full post

(405 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)