Tag Archives: Ron Cook

The Hack. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Robert Carlyle, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Eve Myles, Nadia Albina, Mark Stobbart, Katherine Kelly, Kevin Doyle, Sophie Bould, Daniel Ryan, Dougray Scott, Barry Sloane, Rosealie Craig, Lee Ingleby, Neil Maskell, Jay Simpson, Rocky Marshall, Jamie Parker, Ian Burfield, Richard Pepple, Dolly Gadsdon, Pip Torrens, George Russo, Steve Pemberton, Ron Cook, Georgia Jay, Andrew Lancel, Nicholas Rowe, Adrian Lester, Lisa McGrillis, Jonathan Aris, Lucy Speed, Steve Waddington, Nigel Lindsay, Nicola Stephenson, Robert Bathurst, Robert Glenister, Paul Kaye, Lara Pulver, Sean Pertwee, Jonathan Coy, Lisa Dillon, Cara Theobold, Phil Davis.

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(733 words, estimated 2:56 mins reading time)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 13th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Matthew Rhys, Alun Armstrong, Ron Cook, Julia Mckenzie, Janet Dale, Rory Kinnear, Freddie Fox, Tamzin Merchant, Sacha Dhawan.

How exactly do you finish of someone else’s work after they have died so that’s its deemed worthy enough for an audience’s appreciation? Beethoven, Schubert,  and Charles Dickens have one thing in common and that is they died before they could finish a major piece of work.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The King’s Man. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Djimon Hounsou, Gemma Arterton, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Harris Dickinson, Alexandra Maria Lara, Rhys Ifans, Tom Hollander, Valerie Pachner, Daniel Brühl, Ron Cook, Joel Basman, Todd Boyce, Barbara Drennan, August Diehl, Alison Steadman, Ian Kelly, Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

There is nothing quite like the epic romp, and in modern cinema nobody does it arguably finer and with more dynamic display than Director Matthew Vaughn.

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

Chernobyl. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, Jessie Buckley, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Adam Nagaitis, Sam Troughton, Robert Emms, Karl Davies, Con O’Neill, Adrian Rawlins, David Dencik, Barry Keoghan, Ralph Ineson, Mark Lewis Jones, Ron Cook, Donald Sumpter, Alex Fearns, Jamie Sives.

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(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Les Misérables. Television Review. (2019).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Dominic West, Adeel Akhtar, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins, Olivia Coleman, David Bradley, Ellie Bamber, Erin Kellyman, Emma Fielding, Enzo Cilenti, Donald Sumpter, Andre Pasquasy, Turlough Convery, Archie Madekwe, Josh O’Connor, Joseph Quinn,  Natalie Simpson, Angela Wynter, Reece Yates, Derek Jacobi, Jerome Flynn, Darren Kent, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Josef Altin, Anna Calder-Marshall, Alan David, Ron Cook, Archie Madekwe, Lorcan Cranitch, Hayley Carmichael.

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(601 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

Bert And Dickie. B.B.C. Television. Television Review.

Originally published on L.S. Media. 26th July 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, Sam Hoare, Geoffrey Palmer, Douglas Hodge, Thomas Arnold, Matt Barber, John Bird, Ron Cook, James Frain, Clive Merrison, Clive Russell, Sarah Vickers.

There will always be one story to come out of an Olympic Games that is ripe many years later to get a writer of quality excited and in turn the creative juices will bring about a script that is both touching and passionate and yet reveals the hidden anguish behind some of the great Olympians.

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