Tag Archives: Reece Shearsmith

Inside No.9: Mr King. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Annette Badland, Elin Owen, Charlie Baron, Rosie Ekenna, William Newton.

We are continually told to cherish our children, they are after all, our future, the ones who will inherit our mess, the ones who will pay the price for our folly, our ignorance, and mismanagement.

In the world of the macabre and chilling, children though are perhaps the more gruesome of observers in the game of life, ghoulish in the spitefulness, morbid in their fascination of what makes their adult counterparts tick; it is no wonder that some of the finest horror films have had children, or the childlike, at the very heart of their narrative.

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Merrily, Merrily. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Diane Moran, Patrice Naiambana.

A reunion, of sorts, and one that perhaps many thought might never occur, but it should never have been in doubt that Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, and Mark Gatiss, the delightful acting team behind The League Of Gentlemen, would one day be seen together in the same scenes, and providing a deeply satisfying look at the darker side of life.

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(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

In The Earth. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, John Hollingsworth, Mark Monroe.

Not so gentle are the sleepers in that quiet Earth, or so we might come to believe when we find that nature has turned her back on us and makes us reap all that we have sown, all that we have buried underground.

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(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

The Witchfinder. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Tim Key, Daisy May Cooper, Jessica Hynes, Daniel Rigby, Tuwaine Barrett, Michael Culkin, Dan Renton Skinner, Rosie Cavaliero, Dan Mersh, Vincent Franklin, Joplin Sibtain, Sharlene Whyte, Karl Theobald, Katy Wix, Julian Barratt, Reece Shearsmith, Justin Edwards, Ricky Tomlinson, Cariad Lloyd, Angus Wright.

If comedy is subjective and can rise and fall with whatever the fashion of the day dictates then at some point, we must expect almost every historical scenario to be discussed as potential for a sitcom, or at the least as backdrop and discussion in which to drive the genre forwards.

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(573 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Naomi Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu, Sian Webber, Jack Bandeira, Olumide Olorunfemi, Scroobius Pip, Reece Shearsmith.

Despite the seriousness of the storyline, the undertones of institutional abuse and the outright red flags of cruelty, neglect and violence, Andy Serkis’ Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a romp, a graphic book large screen hybrid, a mutation of fine comedy underpinned by the gravity of murderous revenge.

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(575 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Wuthering Heist. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kevin Bishop, Gemma Whelen, Paterson Joseph, Rosa Robson, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Dino Kelly.

To take risks is every artist’s right, and whilst there will be those that don’t appreciate the gamble, preferring instead to instruct the artist to stick to what they do best, or to translate, what the observer can comfortably comprehend, the reward received is great indeed, and can bring the artist’s talents in to even sharper, more critical view.

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(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Inside No. 9: The Stakeout. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Rebecca Callard, Malik Ibheis.

Even in the more cerebrally minded television programmes and across the writer’s who offer the viewer a healthy dose of the macabre and genius inspired, you sometimes know what is coming at you from the beginning, it is how they turn the screw during the transmission that makes the show stand out as something more than just a half hour trip down a certain lane, it becomes the embodiment of performance, of the ordinary bent out of shape.

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(416 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Misdirection. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Jill Halfpenny, Fionn Whitehead, Tom Goodman-Hill.

A sleight of hand always captivates the audience, their faces caught somewhere between incredulity and amazement, the wonder of how the penny drops as they conclude how the trick was conducted right in front of them, whilst all the time believing they could not be caught out, that they were alert to every possibility that could occur.

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(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Inside No. 9: Love’s Great Adventure. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Debbie Rush, Gaby French, Bobby Schofield, Olly Hudson-Croker.

The secret kept behind closed doors is the one that can either bring a family together, or break it, completely fracture it to the point where the joints will never be truly aligned once more. Whilst television normally glorifies in the fall out of such family despair, whilst film praises the pain in family disfunction, what cannot be argued with is how resilience and love can make for a finer interpretation of what family means, that even in the darkest moment, Love’s Great Adventure is there to prove that drama is only a side show to a truth of expression that is forgiveness and battling the enemies at the gate together.

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(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Death Be Not Proud. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Jenna Coleman, Kadiff Kirwan.

It is not always about who we let into our lives that should be of a concern, it ought to be those we refuse to let go of that would surely be the most troubling; the presence in the room that we cannot somehow live without, such is the fear of letting go that occasionally we find troubled souls and the homes they have made, are nothing more than shrines to ones to whom that refuse to leave.

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