Tag Archives: Phoebe Fox

The Lovecraft Investigations: The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Barnaby Kay, Jana Carpenter, Kyle Soller, Steven Mackintosh, Mark Bazeley, Samuel Barnett, Nicola Walker, Karla Crome, Jennifer Armour, Ferdinand Kingsley, David Calder, Walles Hamonde, Michael Maloney, Phoebe Fox.

One of the most interesting and intense dramas to have found its way to the listener’s appreciation of late is the adaption of H.P. Lovecraft’s dark and frequently disturbing tales that were set in and around his native New England. Julian Simpson’s superb reading and amendments to bring it to a more British viewpoint and understanding of how such a sense of enormity and mystery could begin and take hold in the country.

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

The Whisperer in Darkness. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jana Carpenter, Barnaby Kay, Nicola Walker, Mark Bazeley, David Calder, Ben Crowe, Gabrielle Glaister, Ferdinand Kingsley, Nicola Stephenson, Edie Simpson, Robert Glenister, Ben Crowe, Stephen Mackintosh, Karl Johnson, Phoebe Fox, Phoebe Francis Brown.

The enigma that is H.P. Lovecraft is perhaps lost on modern readers, for in is writing it is possible to see just how far ahead of his time he was, and whilst the notion of his own personal beliefs arguably kept his name from being investigated by readers long after his untimely passing, only the adventurous reader seems to dare go deep into the world created by the writer.

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(508 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward. Audio Drama Podcast Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jana Carpenter, Barnaby Kay, Samuel Barnett, Mark Bazeley, Samantha Dakin, Phoebe Fox, Adam Godley, Susan Jameson, Nicola Walker.

Everybody can name some horror writers, even if the genre alludes them, or they shy away from the experience due to the fears that grip the imagination or the heart; the ordinary passerby can confidently place a name down in the column of the masters of the frightening mass and walk away knowing they have looked into the heart of darkness and seemed knowledgeable.

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(624 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

The Great (Series Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Sacha Dhawan, Gwilym Lee, Adam Godley, Douglas Hodge, Belinda Bromilow, Ramon Tikaram, Gillian Anderson, Bayo Gbadamosi, Florence Keith-Roach, Charity Wakefield, Danusia Samal, Claira Watson Parr, Tristan Bent, Jane Mahady, Julian Barratt, Alistair Green, Timoth Walker, Louis Hynes, Ali Ariaie, Eloise Webb, Dina Al Salih, Anthony Welsh, Keon Martial-Phillip, Freddie Fox, Grace Molony, Blake Harrison, Jason Issacs, Dean Nolan.

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(562 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

The Aeronauts. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Phoebe Fox, Anna Reid, Tim McInnerny, Vincent Perez, Robert Glenister, Tom Courtney, Rebecca Front, Kamil Lemieszewski, Gianni Calchetti, Lewin Lloyd, Julian Ferro, Thomas Arnold, Andy Mihalache.

If you are terrified of heights then then to be trapped in a hot air balloon is arguably the worst place you can imagine to be, or maybe as the one in control of its descent, on top of the structure trying to force it down by releasing the mechanism that will get you to ground safely.

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(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Eye In The Sky, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Richard McCabe, Barkhad Abdi, Jeremy Northam, Monica Dolan, Iain Glen, Babou Ceesay, Phoebe Fox, Aaron Paul, Faisa Hassan, Aisha Takow, Armaan Haggio, Gavin Hood, Ebby Weyime, Lex King, Andrew Ahula, Ali Mohamed.

There are many reasons in which to take Eye In The Sky for a simple film about choice, its after effects and the consequences of decision; there are many reasons in which to understand that sometimes the greater good is served by the action of several bad and potentially evil people being taken out and one good person losing their life because of it; what it doesn’t prepare you for is the harrowing nature in which some decisions are formed.

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

Life In Squares, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Eve Best, Phoebe Fox, Catherine McCormack, Lydia Leonard, Jack Davenport, Rupert Penry-Jones, James Norton, Ed Birch, Christian Brassington, Lucy Boynton, Andrew Havill, Sam Hoare, Eleanor Bron, James Clay, Deborah Findlay, Ron Heaps, Guy Henry, Edmund Kingsley, Anton Lesser, James Northcote, Emily Bruni, Edmund Digby-Jones, Guy Henry, Finn Jones, Adam Palsson, Simon Thomas, Elliot Cowan, Rosie Ede, Jenny Howe, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Marianne Oldham, Simon Thomas, Al Weaver.

 

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(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

A Poet In New York, Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hollander, Essie Davis, Ewen Bremner, Phoebe Fox, Samantha Fox, Stuart Matthews, Shane Hart, Morfydd Clark, Lucinda O’Donnell.

What really drives a poet as an artist? Not for them perhaps the adulation bestowed upon them as other artists, the secrecy of their work arguably not given a thought by the population as whole in the same way as a those who follow music. The craft is unseen and so is their life as they squirrel away words like some hide treasure or famous paintings by old Masters. However for Dylan Thomas, he was a breed of the new poet, loved on both sides of The Atlantic after the ravages of World War Two.

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

The Musketeers, The Good Soldier. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Santiago Cabrera, Luke Pasqualino, Tom Burke, Howard Charles, Peter Capaldi, J.J. Field, Tamla Kari, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Hugo Speer, Anna Skellern, Adrian Schiller, Simon Paisley Day, Phoebe Fox, Peter- Hugo Daly, Jim High.

Sunday nights have not been the same since The Musketeers came swashbuckling into the living rooms of audiences up and down the country. The French tale of swords, honour and friendship has perhaps never been more popular and rightly so.

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(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)