Tag Archives: Liverpool

Boyhood, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, Steven Chester Prince, Bonnie Cross, Libby Villari, Marco Perella, Jamie Howard, Andrew Villarreal, Shane Graham, Tess Allen, Ryan Power, Sharee Fowler, Mark Finn, Charlie Sexton, Byron Jenkins, Holly Moore, David Blackwell, Barbara Chisholm, Matthew Martinez-Arndt, Cassidy Johnson, Cambell Westmoreland, Jennifer Griffin, Garry Peters,  Merrilee McCommas,  Tamara Jolaine,  Tyler Strother, Brad Hawkins, Savannah Welch, Richard Andrew Jones, Karen Jones, Sam Dillon, Jesse Mechler.

Boyhood, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T, Liverpool. full post

(517 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Play With Myself: The Trials And Tribulations Of Drama Practitioner Gregory Bike. Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Liam Hale, Dominic Davies, Rio Matchett, David Paes, Sean Stokes.

The world according to Gregory Bike, a mantra for all the giants of theatre, a man to whom you should listen to with open ears and open minds…a man to whom the word theatre is the be all and end all of life’s pursuit of truth and experience…a man who exists completely as fantastic extension of Liam Hale’s superb imagination and for whom Play With Myself: The Trials and Tribulations of Drama Practitioner Gregory Bike will surely be rated as a must see at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

Play With Myself: The Trials And Tribulations Of Drama Practitioner Gregory Bike. Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool. full post

(581 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Betty Blue Eyes, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Laura Baldwin, Tobias Beer, Kit Benjamin, Adam C. Booth, Amy Booth-Steel, Jeni Bowden, Ricky Butt, Matt Harrop, Oliver Izod, Rachel Knowles, Lauren Logan, Rebecca Louis, Sally Mates, Joe Maxwell, Hayden Oakley, Anthony Ray, Kate Robson-Stuart.

Winston Churchill, the war-time leader of Great Britain, once exclaimed that to look a dog in the eyes was to see it acknowledge it saw its master, a cat would see its slave but to look a pig in the eyes, well the pig sees its equal…for Betty Blue Eyes, it’s doubtful you will ever see anything to equal this well written and superbly performed play again.

Betty Blue Eyes, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Candleford, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Kim Veldman, Lisa Hitchins, Albert Hastings, Stacey Liddell, Carla Cookylnn, Rachel McKeown, Charlotte Holguin, Gillian Lewis, Gemma Doyle, Peter Higham, Sheddie Broddie, John Goodwin, Bertie Jones, Agustin Arraez, Lisa Symonds, Keri Seymour, Amy Stout, Michael Treanor, Ady Potter, Katie Thomas, Janet Fennell, Derek Weigh.

To perform a theatre production based on a hit television programme, a period piece in which the attention to detail of the age is usually the first thing that subconsciously many people sitting down to watch will question, is a brave choice. For a company that is made up of those who love acting for its ventured expression, for the satisfaction of being on stage and becoming someone else it is courage befitting the bold and the fearless.

Candleford, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

How To Train Your Dragon 2, Film Review. Odeon Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristin Wiig, Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harrington, Kieron Elliott, Philip McGrade, Andrew Ableson, Gideon Emery, Simon Kassianides, Randy Thom.

There are many films that at the end of the screening you wonder exactly why they are advertised as being for children, why the family, which all when and good as you want the next generation of film lovers to have had great experiences like this rather being baby sat by a games console, has to be involved; for some films are truly made for everybody to enjoy and yet advertisers insist on placing some films in to ready-made box.

How To Train Your Dragon 2, Film Review. Odeon Cinema, Liverpool. full post

(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Justice League: Volume Three, The Throne of Atlantis. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 71/2/10

There is no dispute to what the New 52 series has done for D.C. Comics. It has made even the most dedicated fan of Marvel and the independent Graphic Novel publishers fall in love for the re-branding of one of the comic industries’ big two. Where at one time, with the absolute exception of Batman, the very possible concession to Wonder Woman and certainly in America, the absolute mainstay of the franchise Superman, there was never really anything for a lover of the comic book to latch on to and take to their heart.

Justice League: Volume Three, The Throne of Atlantis. Graphic Novel Review. full post

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

The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg, Mia Skäringer, Jens Hultén, Bianca Cruzeiro, Alan Ford, Sven Lönn, David Shackleton, Georg Nikoloff, Simon Säppenen, Manuel Dubra, Cory Peterson, Kerry Shale, Philip Rosch, Keith Chanter, Patrik Karlson, Johan Rheborg, Donald Högberg, Alfred Svensson, Eiffel Mattsson, Guhn Andersson, Sibylle Bernardin, Ola Björkman, Ralph Carlsson, Richard Cunningham, Gustav Deinoff, Alexandra Gallusz, Pernilla Göst, James Fred Harkins Jr., Gunilla Jansson, Alexander Karlsson, Tzvet Lazar, Koldo Losada, Lateef Lovejoy, Mikael Melle, Sergej Merkusjev,  Miglen Mirtchev, Valter Nilsson, Sigitas Rackys, Anders Sanzén, Scott Alexander Young.

The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T, Liverpool. full post

(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Reva, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Reva at the Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. July 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Reva at the Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. July 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If only the so called Brit Pop phenomenon of the 1990s had been founded in the heartland of pop, the public houses, the bars and clubs that cosy alongside the River Mersey it would have arguably been as colourful as the Mersey Beat era of the 1960s. It would have also arguably been more substantial and lasted with more ferocity than what eventually fizzled out between a few bands, sometimes with the British press over egging it to the point where there was a farm somewhere in Lancashire on 24 hour production schedule to meet the near selfish demand.

Reva, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

(520 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

The Akalites, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 71/2/10

The Zanzibar Club has had so many bands and musicians pass through its large metallic doors that if there was to be a roll of honour made up, carved out of the same wood that adorns the walls at Lords Cricket ground when a player takes five or ten wickets in an innings then amongst the names of Alan O’ Hare, the legendary Pete Wylie and the sensational Mersey Wylie and a thousand fold others, the one that might catch the eye is the exciting The Akalites.

The Akalites, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. full post

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