Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Sophie Okonedo, Robin Weaver, Siobhan Redmond, Coco-Lili Hoder.
The space between the writer and their creation is one so small that they can often overlap, they become one and the same, the observation of one enhances the act of the other, and in this merging of souls the space narrows to the most infinite of spaces possible.
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.
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.
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.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Shirley Henderson, Vanessa Redgrave, Rosie Cavaliero, Steve Pemberton, India Brown, Warrick Brownlow-Pike, Thierry Wickens, Spencer Jones, Brian Blessed, The Unthanks, Daniel Copeland, Youssef Kerkour, Denise Mack, Francesca Mills, Christopher Patrick Nolan, Daniel Page, Jason Pennycooke, Tim Plester.
What was once lost, can often be returned to where it is needed, as long as people are willing enough to care about history and nature.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia, Owen McDonnell, Harriet Walter, Danny Sapani, Turlough Convery, Gemma Whelan, Steve Pemberton, Raj Bajaj, Alexandra Roach, Sean Delaney.
As inevitable as it was for a third offering of Killing Eve to be commissioned, especially with the cliff-hanger that preceding series left the viewers confronting their emotional response to Villanelle’s destruction of Sandra Oh’s titular character, there seems to be a moment in which you can foresee the story-lines embracing the world of the absurd, of creating havoc for havoc’s sake and treating the agent of chaos as nothing more than that of embracing titillation.
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.
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.
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.
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.