Tag Archives: Jonathan Aris

Red Eye: Crimson Icarus. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jing Lusi, Lesley Sharp, Jemma Moore, Martin Compston, Nicholas Rowe, Jonathan Aris, Trevor White, Tom Forbes, Richard Armitage, Robert Gilbert, Hannah Steele, Tom Ashley, Steph Lacey.

It is with surprise that the second series of Red Eye seems to have learned the lessons presented by its initial series and produced a far more intriguing situation to be investigated by D.S Lee and one that releases the damaging limitations that shrouded Jinh Lusi in the lead role and which reinforces a truth that the world at large is not only caught in the crossfire of ideology, but that at its very core it suffers from the best laid plans of those we might consider to be serving our own best interests.

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

Amadeus. Television Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Paul Bettany, Will Sharpe, Gabreille Creevy, Olivia-Mai Barrett, Orsolya Heletya, Emma Lowndes, Jonathan Aris, Rory Kinnear, Kristián Cser, Anastasia Martin, Lucy Cohu, Viola Preetejohn, Rupert Vansittart, Colin Hoult, Paul Bazely, Jack Farthing, Enyi Okoronkwo, Hugh Sachs.

In its attempt to appeal to all, television has found a way to sanitise even the most glorious of human beings that have created such works of art that their very presence gives us hope, that we explain away the madness in the mind and in the soul, and for the most part it has found a way to dissect and criticise, find a way to not exemplify the brilliance, but desecrate the self, find fault at every possible moment.

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

The Hack. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Robert Carlyle, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Eve Myles, Nadia Albina, Mark Stobbart, Katherine Kelly, Kevin Doyle, Sophie Bould, Daniel Ryan, Dougray Scott, Barry Sloane, Rosealie Craig, Lee Ingleby, Neil Maskell, Jay Simpson, Rocky Marshall, Jamie Parker, Ian Burfield, Richard Pepple, Dolly Gadsdon, Pip Torrens, George Russo, Steve Pemberton, Ron Cook, Georgia Jay, Andrew Lancel, Nicholas Rowe, Adrian Lester, Lisa McGrillis, Jonathan Aris, Lucy Speed, Steve Waddington, Nigel Lindsay, Nicola Stephenson, Robert Bathurst, Robert Glenister, Paul Kaye, Lara Pulver, Sean Pertwee, Jonathan Coy, Lisa Dillon, Cara Theobold, Phil Davis.

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(733 words, estimated 2:56 mins reading time)

Moorgate: Inside/Outside. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jonathan Aris, Lorne MacFadyen, Lizzy Watts, Tyger Drew-Honey, Matt Addis, Joanna Brooks, Jessica Dennis, Paul Panting, Alistair McGowan, Barkha Bahar.

National tragedies have a habit of slowly fading from the memory over time, not least of all because those directly involved in the disaster will themselves succumb to the passing of time, but it is because of nature; we as citizens can carry placards in anger, we can weep in unison at the senselessness of the catastrophe, we can rage and demand tougher actions to keep people safe, and we will seek retribution against the one person we might hold responsible…even if it defined to have been caused by simple misfortune, or the most unfortunate of mistakes.

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(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Joy To The World. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ncuto Gatwa, Nicola Coughlan, Joel Fry, Steph de Whalley, Jonathan Aris, Julia Watson, Peter Benedict, Niamh Marie Smith, Phil Baxter, Samuel Sherpa-Moore, Ruchi Rai, Joshua Leese, Ell Potter, Liam Prince-Donnelly, Fiona Marr, Millie Gibson.

Rarely does one character outshine The Doctor, or even the companion, on screen or across the various outlets of the tales of Doctor Who, especially in the Christmas offering to which is often intended to add a little pleasure to a day wrapped up in a modern dystopia of its own making.

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

Red Eye. Television Drama Series.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Jing Lusi, Richard Armitage, Lesley Sharp, Jemma Moore, Dan Li, Cash Holland, Tai Yin Chan, Thomas Chaanhing, Mido Hardada, Aiden Cheng, Lucianne McEvoy, Jonathan Aris, Xiangyi Tan, Steph Lacey, Parker Sawyers, Daphne Cheung, Elaine Tan.

The detective drama could be said to have eaten itself, a truth of this can be found in its ever-increasing ways in searches for a way to be unique, to have the ‘room’ in which the murder occurs be as far from the drawing room mystery of old as possible, and perhaps be almost considered at times to be more concerned with the seemingly unerring device rather than the character of the piece.

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(495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

His Dark Materials. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Amir Wilson, Will Keen, Lewin Lloyd, Jade Anouka, Simone Kirby, Chipo Chung, Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, Jonathan Aris, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jamie Ward, Sian Clifford, Alex Hassell, Lia Williams, Simon Harrison, Amber Fitzgerald-Woolfe, Nina Sosanya, Andrew Scott, Lin Manuel Miranda, Victoria Hamilton, Kit Connor, Joe Tandberg, Sope Dirisu, Lindsay Duncan, Kate Ashfield, Emma Tate, Patricia Allison, Tuppence Middleton, Sorcha Groundsell, Wade Briggs, Peter Wright.

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

Avenue 5. Series 2. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad, Zach Woods, Rebecca Front, Suzy Nakamura, Lenora Crichlow, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ethan Phillips, Himesh Patel, Jessica St. Clair, Kyle Bornheimer, Andy Buckley, Daisy May Cooper, Ada, Pålsson, Neil Casey, Lucy Punch, Justin Edwards, John Finnemore, Sacharissa Claxton, Leila Farzad, Jonathan Aris, Arsher Ali, Kelly Coughlin, Julian Ovenden, Priyanga Burford, David Fynn, Julianna Kurokawa, Joanna Scanlan, Amanda Lawrence.

To be given the opportunity to study the craft of a genius, that is surely all any writer or observer of life can ever hope to be gifted, and to be involved with one of Britain’s foremost political satirists and writers of modern farce, even in a viewing capacity, must be at the very least, sheer heaven.

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

All The Money In The World. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Christopher Plummer, Michelle Williams, Mark Walhberg, Romain Duris, Timothy Hutton, Charlie Plummer, Andrew Buchan, Marco Leonardi, Giuseppe Bonifati, Nicholas Piedimonti Bodini, Guglielmo Favilla, Jonathan Aris.

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(536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Death Of Stalin. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jason Isaacs, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurlenko, Steve Buscemi, Rupert Friend, Jeffrey Tambor, Paddy Considine, Richard Brake, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale, Paul Whitehouse, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Jonathan Aris, Adrian McLoughlin, Gerard Lepkowski, Dermot Crowley, Cara Horgan.

Politics is a game of wills, the necessity of horse trading played out on a global scale and one in which the sides change so quickly that any gains made one individual are soon scattered to the dusty footnotes of history. It is a game that when played well deserves its own satire, the weak and ineffective politicians get forgotten, the ones who scramble to the top have no other choice but to face the fact that even in death they will be satirised and parodied by the best of writers.

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(494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)