Tag Archives: Jason Watkins

Bookish: Memento Mori. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Mark Gatiss, Polly Walker, Elliot Levy, Connor Finch, Blake Harrison, Jason Watkins, Sarah Crowe, Saffron Coomber, Rosie Cavaliero, Amanda Lawrence, Sorcha Groundsell, Sid Sagar, Nadia Albina, Gerard Horan, Buket Kömür, Youssef Kerkour, Rupert Graves, Nory Goderis, Jan Van Ryckeghem, Rob Oldfield, Simon Callow.

The dead always leave behind something in the dust for others to spoil, to use in their name, and create deeds by the living that leeches off the bereaved as they grieve and grasp any sign of hope that those they have lost might still be found.

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

Central Intelligence: Series Three. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer, Johnny Flynn, Elena Delia, Donald Sage Mackay, Tim Ahern, Carlyss Peer, Jennifer Armour, David Menkin, Christopher Ragland, Joseph Balderrama, Akie Kotabe, Nettie Chickering, Laurel Lefkow, Jason Watkins, Rob Benedict, Tyreke Leslie, Vivek Maden, Richard Southgate, Ian Porter, Lily Lefkow, David Menkin, Roy McCrerey, Julee Cerda, Walles Hamonde, Rachael Stirling, Philipe Bosher, Clay Zackery, Ben Cura, David Duchovny, Aaron Teoh, Sotty Pong, Kerry Shale.

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(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

The Phoenician Scheme. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Alex Jennings, Jason Watkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johanson, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Richard Ayoade, Riz Ahmed, Willem Defoe, F. Murray Abraham, Bill Murray, Donald Sumpter, Rupert Friend, Mathieu Amalric.

What it is to live in the mind of Wes Anderson, what it would be as a writer to sample the sense of creativity of the absurdly connective narrative and see it as a critique of the overblown dramas that use verbal interchange as a mission to dull the intellect of the masses as they substitute shock value for false cool; for only in the way that Mr. Anderson portrays the ordinary and adds beautifully entrancing possibility of language does truth show its true colours in the characters and logic of the piece.

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

The Game. (2025). Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jason Watkins, Robson Green, Sunetra Sarker, Indy Lewis, Amber James, Jenny Rainsford, Scott Karim, Amy Huberman, Simon Harrison, Christina Bennington, Lewis Ian Bray.

The stress of being a detective with a cold case hanging over your career is something that thankfully many of us will never understand or feel; and yet for the individual who has been stretched to breaking point, taking a partner, perhaps a family with them as they close themselves off from everything except the arrest that matters, that stress can consume and eat away at you till the end of time…or until that one person on the other side of the law decides they want to resume The Game.

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(473 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: Wedding Fever. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Claire Skinner, Victoria Hamilton, Jason Hughes, Bill Bailey, Richard Harrington, Esme Coy, Lucinda Dryzek, Holli Dempsey, Charlie Coombes, Piotr Baumann, Charlie Jones, Bhavik C. Pankhania, Misha Domadia, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Joy Richardson, Akshay Sharan,

To the non-romantic, or even those that care little for social construct surrounding over-priced and over exaggerated declarations of love that come with the almost hysterical belief tied in with the convention of Wedding Season, the abuse of want and need, the sense of installing jealousy in a setting where good will should flow is enough to put some over the edge, to see marriage not as a union, but as a chance to even the score.

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

McDonald & Dodds: Jinxy Sings The Blues. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tale Gouveia, Claire Skinner, Hugh Quarshie, Charlie Jones, Bhavik C. Pankhania, Sophia Myles, Rilwan Abiola Owokoniran, Charley Webb, Will Young, Zaquis Riddick. Jared Garfield, Enzo Squillino Jr., Robert Goodman, Don Gallagher, Roy Smiles, Bill Blackwood, Simon Markey, Matthew Wynn, Michael Howe, Melanie Marshall.

The argument can often be discussed that a social myth or legend can enhance any story that it is placed into, that the subject matter held within the past experience can, and often will, benefit the lore even further.

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(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: The Rule Of Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Claire Skinner, Charlie Jones, Bhavik C. Pankhania, Ace Bhatti, Daniel Lapaine, Lydia Leonard, Pixie Lott, Dipo Ola, John Gordon Sinclair, Toby Stephens, Rico Canadinhas, Siobhan O’ Carroll.

A return to the screens for a detective series that has grown with stature as it progresses to exemplify the sense of charismatic fortitude required when placing two oddly matched people together in order to solve a murder, is as welcome as a sunny, cloudless day after a month of constant storms that threaten to overwhelm the population with a sense of permanent gloom and floods of grief.

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(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Coma. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jason Watkins, Jonas Armstrong, Claire Skinner, David Bradley, David Mumeni, Joe Barber, Matilda Firth, Darren Strange, Kayla Meikle, Adrienn Réti, Craige Els, Caroline Boulton, Dan Code, Anita Major, Ralph Berkin, Sagar Arya, Kwadwo Kwateng, Shila Bentley.

For the majority of us, avoiding conflict is a day to day occupation, we have turned our eyes away from the bullying and intimidation on our streets, and the wonder why cannot face the moral questions of the massacre of a people a few thousand miles away; one action is a direct response to the suffering on any scale…we don’t wish to get involved lest the eyes of evil in all its forms fall upon us and we become the next target.

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

Wicked Little Letters. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

Cast: Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman, Hugh Skinner, Timothy Spall, Anjana Vasan, Lolly Adefope, Eileen Atkins, Alisha Weir, Joanna Scanlan, Jason Watkins, Gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby, Richard Goulding, Paul Chahidi, Grant Crookes, Adam Treasure, Jamie Chapman, Susie Fairfax, Ryan Mann, Neil Fox-Roberts, Paul A Munday.

The act of a keyboard warrior who takes great delight in taking down people online is one of extreme cowardice, the mark of the scoundrel; but it is not one that is new to us in society, and since the advent of communication, since the ability to send letters in near anonymity, the scope of bringing distress and harm to others has been more invasive, terrible, cruel, and even pushed many to a place where death/suicide is an outcome the, the cowards, are hoping for.

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(715 words, estimated 2:52 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: Clouds Across The Moon. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Max Bennett, Gerran Howell, Charlie Chambers, Liv Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Pearce Quigley, Claire Skinner, Joanna Riding, Joan Iyiola, Stefan Adegbola, Grace Francis.

There is a subsection of the police procedural crime fiction that the armchair detective will rave about, as if solving a murder wasn’t good enough for them, that they can battle their own wits against the investigator in charge, it is when the villain is so conniving, so  devious in their passion to prove they are just as clever as the one chasing them, if not more so, the complications presented to the viewer are boundless and enthralling to decipher.

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