Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Bradley Thompson, Dorcas Sebuyange.
Everybody has a tale, a story in which to impart, it might be the only one they ever tell in frustration or anger, it might be the only one related with open eyes and truth within their soul. However, everybody’s stories deserve to be told; even one that might prove to be counter-productive to the general feeling, for without that story, a meeting of minds cannot be held in balance.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jason Clarke, Emily Watson, Sam Worthington, Josh Brolin, Kiera Knightley, Justin Salinger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robin Wright, Mia Goth, Stormur Jón Kormákur Baltasarsson, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Clive Standen, Vanessa Kirby, John Hawkes, Elizabeth Debecki, Naoki Mori, Michael Kelly, Tim Dantay, Todd Boyce, Mark Derwin, Martin Henderson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Charlotte Bøving, Thomas M. Wright, Amy Schindler, Chris Reilly, Ang Phula Sherpa, Pemba Sherpa.
There will always be, one hopes, adventurers, people with spirit and explorers, pioneers, people who see the mountain in whatever shape and form it takes and relish the challenge of attaining their goal – even it means personal loss and possible risking of life; for without that risk, humanity becomes staid and placid.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is a simmering volcano that surely lives in the heart of Jeremy Hardy, a volcano that just wants to burst open and let the clouds of ash, pumice and lava fall where it must and melt what it can. It is a volcano that many would like to see crack open, devour a certain section of the population and then serenely go on biding his time until the next idiot comes along and pokes the genuine joy within to the point where explosions of distaste are vented once more.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal, R.K. Harris, Randall Newsome, Hayley Lovitt, Susan McPhail, John Kap, Alex Van.
Bill Bryson is arguably one of the leading exponents of dramatic and comedic travel writing in the last 50 years, his books have sold millions and they are told as if being let in on series of amusing anecdotes, they veer from the dull and professionally accurate descriptions of a life with a map book in one hand and the inevitable pseudo-snobbish that comes with some of the craft and instead what they become is essential stories of a life well travelled. This is never more perfect than in his best- selling book A Walk In The Woods.
Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *
Cast: Paul Curley, Ady Thompson, Eve Shotton, Bruno Mendes.
Happily Ever After is inspired by Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland book King & King which was published in 2002, which tells the story of two young princes who fall in love and marry. It opened up the debate of how young do children have to be to be able to understand gay relationships. The book has made its mark and has since been published in eight languages. It has gone on to receive great success, as well as hitting opposition from parents, teachers and social conservatives.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There may have been a time when many whose love of the music of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel may have feared that they would never again hear the voice that drove the New York pair to such great heights, it may have been a well founded fear but strength and purpose are funny bedfellows when adversity strikes. As the Philharmonic Hall audience sat down, the tingling excitement of hearing a legend in their midst and the trepidation of what could be flowing through every panic neuron in the brain, Art Garfunkel silenced even the stoniest of hearts and made love to the air that surrounded the stark bare stage.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Betsy Aidem, Ethan Philips, Jamie Buckley, Paula Plum, Nancy Giles, Susan Pourfar, Tom Kemp.
Woody Allen has the most innate ability to bring the peculiarities of death, of outraged calculated murder and righteous despair to any party and then show them to be the most perfect illusions and delusions of the mind. It is a rare quality to showcase an individual and their complete neurosis and give them hope and macabre playfulness.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cricket is all when it comes to some people’s lives and it is with little wonder when you consider that at one time the game, especially the Test arena, was seen by millions of people across British summer’s on the B.B.C. as a right and not as is now the case a preserve for those who are able to take, or even wish to procure, Sky Television’s Shilling.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Joe Shipman, Nina Yndis, Lucas Smith.
Musicians: Lizzie Nunnery, Martin Heslop, Vidar Norheim.
In many ways the war in Norway has been pretty much forgotten by many in the U.K. and beyond. The thought these days seems to centre on the fields of France, the systematic destruction of Eastern Europe and the polarised viewpoints of the war in the Far East. Yet Norway and especially for her citizens, the uneasy liaisons that lay between opposing Nazi rule and the fraternisation that reigned in the hearts of her young women starved of male attention and the deaths of so many her young men has somehow been cleansed, sanitised and thrown into the same realms of forgetfulness as those faced by the Channel Islands.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Paul Bettany, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Colin Morgan, Paul Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Chazz Palminteri, Tara Fitzgerald, Kevin McNally, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Sam Hoare, Shane Attwooll, Samantha Pearl, Jane Wood, John Sessions.
There was nothing glamorous about the Krays, not in the strictest sense of the word and yet they held the East End of London in such a thrall that glamour took on a completely different meaning. It was physical allure of charm personified to an area of London that had been treated for too long as the personal plaything of the destructive and warped; so why should the Swinging Sixties be any different.