Tag Archives: Rupert Everett

Smoke And Mirrors. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Rupert Everett, Reece Budin.

There are people to whom history has, if not forgotten, then slowly erased from public view. Some of these are heroes of war to which their services had to remain under the cover of secrecy and mystery to avoid a conflict of interests later down the line where governments change and public opinion may shift due to the response to falsehoods, allegations, and fear, and it is to the right of the researcher, the scribe, and the playwright that these almost fearless people are now underlined and shown to be for the heroes that they are; no matter what they did before or after the war.

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(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

The Name Of The Rose. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Turturro, Rupert Everett, Damian Hardung, James Cosmo, Michael Emerson, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Greta Scarno, Richard Sammel, Stefano Fresi, Roberto Herlitzka, Fausto Maria Sciarappa, Maurizio Lombardi, Nina Fotaras, Guglielmo Favilla, Piotr Adamczyk, Tcheky Karyo, Benjamin Stender, Claudio Bigagli, Corrado Invernizzi, Max Malatesta, Alessio Boni, Sebastian Koch, Rinat Khismatouline, Camilla Diana, David Brandon, Peter Davison.

If life is about having faith, then to tackle a classic novel over the course of several episodes on television and pray that it hits home with even greater intensity than it did in the cinema, then that is devotion and conviction in one fell swoop to the cause of the writer’s pen.

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

The Happy Prince. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Chancellor, Edwin Thomas, Beatrice Dalle, Julian Wadham, John Standing, Andre Penvern, Tom Colley, Stephen M. Gilbert, Alister Cameron, Benjamin Voisin, Antonio Spagnuolo, Franca Abategiovanni, Joshua McGuire, Ronald Pickup.

It takes a fearless and heroic person to bring a legend to the screen, to attempt, to undoubtedly crack, the enigma that lay behind their story, be it in the fascinating, gruesome, indecorous or the beautiful; or in the case of one of the more celebrated writers of the time, Oscar Wilde. It could be argued that all four states of human feeling and postured masks can be seen than in perhaps anybody else who strode across the world’s stage in an era which was harsh, unforgiving, brutal and by today’s standards ruthlessly riddled with toxic masculinity.

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(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Quacks. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rory Kinnear, Lydia Leonard, Mathew Baynton, Tom Basdon, Rupert Everett, Marcia Warren, Lisa Jackson, Kayvan Novak, Georgie Glen, Milly Thomas, Andrew Scott, Miles Jupp, Fellena Woolgar, David Bamber, Ben Willbond, Geoff McGivern.

 

Every profession has the pop stars of their day, the showmen and women, the extroverts and the gregarious who live for the acclaim, the prestige and the privilege it brings. The artist, the poet, the actor, the musician and the surgeon, all have their theatres, all have one person who plays to the crowd and relishes the sense of power it brings.

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(545 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

The Musketeers, Death Of A Hero. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Matthew McNulty, Luke Pasqualino, Hugo Speer, Rupert Everett, Thalissa Teixeira, Lukas Juza, Andre Flynn, Jared Doreck, Tom Morely, Ben Whitrow.

The manipulation of a single moment in Time, the guise in which our last moments on Earth can cover and disguise every intention and possible misdeed that went before it, is as easy to fall into as the truly heroic and virtuously noble man to slip into the bear pit of a single mistake which undoes every honourable and moral act ever taken…manipulation of a single moment is always remembered by history in the final breath of the person and one that can signal the Death of a Hero.

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

The Musketeers: To Play The King. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Matthew McNulty, Hugo Speer, Rupert Everett, Matt Stokoe, Ian McKee, Stephen Walters, Ross O’Hennesy, Thalisa Teixeira, Andrew Turner, Allan Corduner, Leah Haile, Tom Morley, Naomi Radcliffe, Ernesto Cekan, Christian Dunckley Clark.

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(467 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

The Musketeers, The Queen’s Diamonds. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Alexandra Dowling, Rupert Everett, Hugo Speer, Paul McGann, Matthew McNulty, Sarah Smart, James Callis, Matt Stokoe, Laura Haddock, Olivia Poulet, Thalissa Teixeira, Allan Corduner, Harriet Thorpe, Lucie Cerna, Barbora Cerna, Monika Timkova, David Pearse, Michael Peavoy.

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

The Musketeers, Brothers In Arms. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Matthew McNulty, Hugo Speer, Rupert Everett, Andre Flynn, Farren Morgan, Simon Startin, Jonny Magnanti, Thalissa Teixeira, Richard Dormer, Lisa McGrillis. Matt Stokoe, Tom Morley, Daniel Brown.

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(404 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

The Musketeers: The Hunger. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Alexandra Dowling, Matthew McNulty, Hugo Speer, Rupert Everett, Dan Parr, Thalissa Tiexeira, Oliver Chris, Jan Spanbauer, Barry McCormick, Jodie Hay, Frances Magee, Janet Walker, Duran Fulton Brown, Matt Stokoe, Crispin Letts, Christopher Brand, Andy Linden, Ian Conningham.

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

The Musketeers, The Spoils Of War. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Tamla Kari, Alexandra Dowling, Rupert Everett, Ryan Gage, Hugo Speer, Michael Ballard, Terence Beesley, Danny Burns, Sam Clemmett, Chris Corrigan, Crispin Letts, Matthew McNulty, Dan Parr, Giselle Scantlebury, Matt Stokoe, John Woodvine.

War between the two great 17th Century European superpowers of France and Spain was never one that ended easily or with much gained upon either side; just lots of dead men, lots of potential wasted and heroes made, some of bronze, some of clay.

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