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Passenger List. Audio Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kelly Marie Tran, Elyse Dinh, George Q Nyugen, Colin Morgan, Ben Daniels, Ian McQuown, Doyla Gavanski, Valarie Vennix, Tessa Auberjonis, Pej Vahdat, Lauren Shippen, Carl Prekopp, Richard Tanner, Kelsey Venter, Sean T. Krishnan, Adam O’Byrne, Julie Adamo, Nathan Osgood, Laurel Lefkow, Gabby Brooks, Kathleen Early, Richard Doyle, Adrian Latourelle, Kristian Bruun, Patti LuPone, Steve Basaula, Mark Henry Phillips, Philip Desmeules, Becci Gemmell, Eben Figueiredo, Fode Simbo, Nicole Stedwell, Nick Massoub, Ray McAnally, Rob Benedict, Mary Gordon Murray, Richard Doyle, Heather Craney, Anjili Mohindra, Briggon Snow, Alex Brown Marshall, Raad Rawi, Marie France Arcilla, Clare Corbett, Jennifer Armour, Barbara Barnes, Eric Meyers, Chrstopher Ragland, Cyril Nri, Danielle Lewis, Akie Kotabe, Carlyss Peer, Gianna Kiehl, Kerry Shale.

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(693 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

The Black Phone. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeline McGraw, Jeremy Davies, E. Roger Mitchell, Troy Rudeseal, James Ransone, Miguel Cazarez Mora, Rebecca Clarke, J. Gaven Wilde, Spencer Fitzgerald, Jordan Isaiah White, Brady M. Ryan, Tristan Pravong, Jacob Moran, Brady Hepner, Banks Stikeleather, Kristina Arjona, Sheila O’Rear, Rocco Poveromo, Kellan Rhude, Nina Repeta.

There are some supernatural/ thriller/ horror films that just frame the genre so well, and yet don’t receive the wider appreciation that others of lesser quality seem to enjoy.

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

Elton John: Honky Château. 50th Anniversary Re-issue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time is a construct displaying humanity’s absurd notion that if it can conquer a planet, then it can also be the master of the clock, of the minutes and seconds that ever present in nature; in the grand scheme of the apparent stillness of the universe, the world is only tune to the beat of the one who calls itself master, and that in which plays the tune to be heard in the Honky Château.

Elton John: Honky Château. 50th Anniversary Re-issue Review. full post

(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon – Live At Wembley 1974. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Never mind ten years that have passed in our struggle to fill Time, it is the half century of existence between points that can drive us to the edge of human madness.

Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon – Live At Wembley 1974. Album Review. full post

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

Stone On Stone. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. Theatre Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: John O’Gorman, Lew Freeburn, Franklyn Jacks, Thom Williamson, Addae G.

The cause célèbre is one that as the 21st Century has marched onwards has gained ever more attention, everyone it seems today has the potential to seek a worthy initiative in which to fight against many of the injustices that blight and damage society. This positive conflict is what keeps us on our toes, but also one that perhaps is orchestrated behind the fact that never before has the ability to rub shoulders and ideas with those we perceive to be celebrity been so prevalent.

Stone On Stone. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. Theatre Review. full post

(566 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

John Wick: Chapter 4. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, Bill Skarsgård, Clancey Brown, Donnie Yen, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rina Sawayama, George Georgiou, Marko Zaror, Aimée Kwan, Iryna Fedorova, Marie Pierre Kakoma, Natalia Tena, Sven Marquardt.

It may not be the last we hear of John Wick, but if the series was to end on Chapter 4 then the final instalment of the lone assassin’s revenge/redemption tale is by far and without argument, its masterpiece.

John Wick: Chapter 4. Film Review. full post

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

Jon Wilks: Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Therapy is undervalued, especially when it is one of your own making, your own source of companionship, your own place and time finding ways to defeat the false fears and ills that cloud our days and our souls; the damage wrought by the defeat in advance, the conscious, overwhelming beating before you have taken to the ring…these are the moments in which therapy, in caring for oneself, is to be applauded, urged, and followed through upon.

Jon Wilks: Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost. Album Review. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Happy Birthday Mr President. B.B.C. Audio Drama. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lydia Wilson, Justin Salinger, Isabella Inchbald, Simon Harrison, Clare Perkins, Jason Barnett.

Pop culture moments tend to stick in the collective memory more than most, even when a person is obviously too young to have witnessed it first hand, the abundance of times it has been watched and rewatched, the stories of its greatness handed down from one generation to the next; pop culture is the ultimate foundation of the 20th and 21st Centuries to which glory has been immortalised in a single snap shot of a camera’s lens.

Happy Birthday Mr President. B.B.C. Audio Drama. Review. full post

(595 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

50 Berkeley Square. B.B.C Audio Drama. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Gwyneth Keyworth, John Heffernan, Tom Kiteley, Hughie O’ Donnell, Chloë Sommer, Roger Ringrose.

A ghost story does wonders for the spirits…

We walk through Time without thinking of the pieces of ourselves that we leave behind, shedding skin, leaving our imprint on everything we have held, touched, sat in, argued with, loved, abused, cared for; our soul has its own legacy to which we leave echoes of our lives trapped in the moment of Time forever.

50 Berkeley Square. B.B.C Audio Drama. Review. full post

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

Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley. (Series Two). Radio Series.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Murder is an abhorrence to nature, and yet there are circumstances in which the taking of a life can be seen as a mercy, that it can be driven by political fears, and that of desperation when viewed through the lens of self-defence.

Even in age where there appears to be a glut, an overwhelming dedicated number of column inches in newspapers and social media driven commentary to any number of murders that take place in Britain, and around the world, it still comes as a shock to the senses that someone would willingly take another life, and even more astonishing when the murderer is revealed as a woman.

Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley. (Series Two). Radio Series. full post

(680 words, estimated 2:43 mins reading time)