Tag Archives: Mark Gatiss

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nock Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Cary Elwes, Katy O’Brian, Stephen Oyoung, Tomás Paredes.

The mission, it seems, is never over, and if a franchise still appeals to the vast majority of cinema goers, then who can truly say when the curtain should be drawn and the opera singer given the instruction to sing the closing title.

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Film Review. full post

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

The Talented Mr Shakespeare. Radio Comedy Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Mark Gatiss, Arthur Hughes, Harry Kershaw, Renee Lamb, Tom Mothersdale, Alana Ramsey, Martha Travis Ross.

Satire and parody are the right of the human soul to cause disrespectful veneration to the public ideal of a situation or a person. It is the active ingredient in comedy that highlights the absurdity of human detail and experience in such a way that whilst obvious, it can offer relief from the sterile rule book that insists on ego driven reverence to all who are considered our betters and unequal’s.

The Talented Mr Shakespeare. Radio Comedy Review. full post

(324 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Sherlock, Reichenbach Fall. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 16th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Andrew Scott, Rupert Graves, Una Stubbs, Mark Gatiss, Jonathon Aris, Loo Brealey, Amber Elizabeth, Pano Masti, Katherine Parkinson, Vinette Robinson.

Save the best till last, always keep the audience wanting more and keep them guessing…even if it means the clamour and noise from the enormous fan base that’s been the envy of many other prime time television programmes gets louder and louder until the B.B.C. and the Moffat/Gatiss writing team confirm that there will be a, hopefully, third series.

Sherlock, Reichenbach Fall. Television Review. full post

(594 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Sherlock: The Hounds Of Baskerville. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 9th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Russell Tovey, Amelia Bullmore, Clive Mantle, Rupert Graves, Gordon Kennedy, Mark Gatiss, Sasha Behar, Una Stubbs.

The second of three new stories for the world’s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, sees Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat bring the wonderful and tantalising story of The Hound of  the Baskervilles completely up to date and leave the Victorian era behind completely and utterly forever.

Sherlock: The Hounds Of Baskerville. Television Review. full post

(694 words, estimated 2:47 mins reading time)

Sherlock. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 5th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Scott, Lara Pulver.

It’s been a long wait but finally television audiences were able to greet Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ version of Sherlock Holmes with open arms and once more willing to see the great detective transplanted from the ideal of 1880’s London through to the present day.

Sherlock. Television Review. full post

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

Inspector George Gently: The Lost Child. B.B.C.Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media Aeptember 9th 2012.

Cast: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Helen Baxendale, Alison Steadman, Mark Gatiss, Simon Hubbard, Andrew Frame, Faye Castelow, Katie Anderson, Tony Haygarth.

It is every parent’s worst nightmare, the sudden disappearance of their child and the awful truth that can be associated with it. For Bacchus and Inspector George Gently is perhaps was one of their most harrowing cases.

The Inspector George Gently series has never been shy in looking at some of the more destructive and heart-breaking sides of 1960’s northern life and this episode The Lost Child was absolutely no exception.

Inspector George Gently: The Lost Child. B.B.C.Television Review. full post

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

A Woman Of Stone. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Eanna Hardwicke, Celia Imrie, Monica Dolan, Mawaan Rizwan, Pheobe Horn.

Drawing inspiration from E. Nesbit’s Man-Size In Marble, Mark Gatiss’ now traditional drawing back of the veil that separates the darkness of the night to that of the enlightenment and spirituality of the Christmas gathering, has once more offered a distinct look for the viewer of what lays hidden in the shadows of our mind, the shortness of breath that hangs icily in the air as we sense the apparition and the shade as they enter our realm and bring together the possibility of a death by nefarious means to our world.

A Woman Of Stone. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Moonflower Murders. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan, Conleth Hill, Daniel Mays, Alexandros Logothetis, Adrian Rawlins, Pooky Quesnel, Will Tudor, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Rosealie Craig, Joanna Bacon, Thomas Coombes, Mark Gatiss, Wade Briggs, Rupert Evans, Amy Griffiths, Kostis Daskalakis, Liam Garrigan, Tim Plester, Kate Ashfield, Jeany Spark, Alec Secareanu, Claire Rushbrook, Matthew Beard, Martyn Ellis, Billie Gadsdon, Mitchell Robertson, Gay Soper, Aliona Baranova, Daniel Lapaine, Paul Dunphy, Vasilis Xenikakis, Davina Moon, Oliver Hubard, Shane G. Casey, Sanjeev Kohli.

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(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Lot 249. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kit Harrington, Freddie Fox, John Heffernan, Colin Ryan, Andrew Horton, James Swanton, Jonathan Rigby.

A good ghost story at Christmas is fitting, it reminds us not to take life for granted, it urges us to think of those we have lost, not just in the passing of the calendar year, but throughout our lives; for in that memory, we understand that time is fleeting, it is corporeal, and at times the lesson it wishes to teach is one to which is required to scare us into doing the right thing.

Lot 249. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Part One). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Frederick Schmidt, Mariela Garriga, Cary Elwes, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma.

You don’t escape from the rage of a volcano by standing still, you cannot avoid the avalanche by staring deep into the bleak white void as it hurtles towards you; and you don’t get to ignore the latest offering from the Mission Impossible franchise by declaring that it doesn’t appeal as an action film just because it is fronted by Tom Cruise.

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Part One). Film Review. full post

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