Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We face extinction it seems with a sense of dramatic unawareness, collectively we may look into the void and pretend to scream at the darkness, the hopeless of our cause opening up before us like a gigantic yawn from bored celestial being, but secretly it feels as though we are enjoying this realm of pre-annihilation, that the Songs From The Restless Oblivion are but a grand opus sang from the true depths of our embattled spirit.
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Always be curious, and never find yourself become narrowminded, find a way to ask questions rather than be so pained that you only listen to one side of argument and decide that is enough to carry the weight of your own opinion…Become Other than human judgement framed by all that you ever knew and not what you could have learned.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Confidence in the right hands is never an illusion, it is never based on a false premise that is employed by the nature of the complacent, the smug or overly satisfied, it is based in a truth that a confident person offers a 100 percent of themselves, building from nothing, taking time to reach their potential and showing the world that they planned it all meticulously, took the chances but also measured it so much that the self-satisfied will argue until they become cold and unfeeling to the beauty shown.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When the annals of 21st Century Blues are written there will be names that are assured to note only feature heavily within the factually written pages but will be seen as true luminaries and icons of the genre; those that arguably saved the music from dying a death that had been telegraphed since the mid-1980s.
Chiefly amongst them will be the undoubted Queen of British Blues, one who has herself been influenced and aided by the likes of Joe Bonamassa, but has forged her own indomitable style and taken all in her path from the Midland’s heartlands of her birth to the wilds of America and back, the creator of all that is Black & Gold, Joanne Shaw Taylor.
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Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Kaitlyn Dever, Rutina Wesley, Danny Ramirez, Catherine O’Hara, Robert John Burke, Spencer Lord, Tati Gabrelle, Ariela Barer, Noah Lamanna, Jeffrey Wright, Alanna Ubach, Ben Ahlers, Hettienne Park, Tony Dalton, Joe Pantoliano.
The second season of The Last Of Us certainly can claim to move the action on, to expand the narrative of the downfall of humanity, but by doing so it finds itself lacking composure and the ferocity of the moment so elegantly pursued in its opening episodes.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: John Simm, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Daniel Rigby, Harry Lloyd, Ruby Ashbourne-Serkis, Trevor Eve, Liz Kingsman, Rakhee Thakrar, Zoë Tapper, James Fleet, Gemma Jones, Sabrina Bartlett, James Wilby, Percelle Ascott, Victoria Broom, Eden Hollingsworth, Tim Faraday, Niamh Cusack.
Murder mysteries are stock in trade for television, everyday there is the detective’s lot in finding a killer, and the only thing that changes is the reasoning of the one committing the heinous crime, or the personality of the one investigating them. The genre never grows tired, but it can become a little predictable, the staleness is inert and takes a genuine talent and insight to give it the value and respect that many plead for in the modern age.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nock Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Cary Elwes, Katy O’Brian, Stephen Oyoung, Tomás Paredes.
The mission, it seems, is never over, and if a franchise still appeals to the vast majority of cinema goers, then who can truly say when the curtain should be drawn and the opera singer given the instruction to sing the closing title.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Alex Jennings, Jason Watkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johanson, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Richard Ayoade, Riz Ahmed, Willem Defoe, F. Murray Abraham, Bill Murray, Donald Sumpter, Rupert Friend, Mathieu Amalric.
What it is to live in the mind of Wes Anderson, what it would be as a writer to sample the sense of creativity of the absurdly connective narrative and see it as a critique of the overblown dramas that use verbal interchange as a mission to dull the intellect of the masses as they substitute shock value for false cool; for only in the way that Mr. Anderson portrays the ordinary and adds beautifully entrancing possibility of language does truth show its true colours in the characters and logic of the piece.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Long after we have left this mortal coil, the stains of those murdered and the memories of what have been will linger on; we will mourn the passing of the innocent soul as much as we will be damned for failing to clean the blood spilled from inside houses that were meant to be safe, secure, sheltered from the storms of jealousy, rage, and devilish intent.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The music fan is used to hearing that their favoured band has found a way to enter the studio during a tour, the seizing of the moment as they are gripped by inspiration is an age-old tale that almost every group or solo performer has found in their time on the road.
What is surprising to find is a single, even an E.P. that is released during a tour, it is an act of supreme confidence that the possible spoiler for the fan of what they might expect on the night they enter the arena or venue, is in effect a trophy of aural greatness, a highlight given its own space and time.