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Grace: Dead Like You. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Zoë Tapper, Craig Parkinson, Richie Campbell, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Clare Calbraith, Boni Adeliyi, Andy Apollo, Rakie Ayola, Lizzie Back, Steve Broad, Joanna Brookes, Eliot Cable, Charlotte Christof, Alexander Cobb, Darcy Collins, Thomas Coombes, Rai Endah, Heather Ann Foster, Ernest Gromov, Darragh Hand, Robert Hands, Molly Harris, Jo Herbert, Sam Hoare, Rob Jarvis, Claudia Jolly, Max Krupski, Kiera Lester, Sibylla Meienberg, Henry Miller, Luke Norris, Jack Pierce, Tyler-Jo Richardson, Rebecca Scoggs, Nicholas Tizzard, Ben Wiggins, Charlotte Workman, Jay Oliver Yip.

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

U2: Songs Of Surrender. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A poem is never truly finished, but despite the great Paul Valery’s insight, it is, in the hands of a master, never abandoned, it just waits for right moment to undergo a metamorphosis which transcends its original moment in time, and take on the appearance, the structure of a different period in which the artist can revaluate their place in history. Poetry, art is never finished, but it can undergo a transformation which gives the voyeur and listener alike a reason to keep fighting.

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(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Inspiral Carpets: The Complete Singles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a train of thought that suggests without a sense of irony that in music’s place in British geographical history, Manchester and its local area, with a few exceptions, is the poor relation of inspiring and successful bands when compared to places such as Birmingham, Glasgow, London, and of course Liverpool.

There is a physical injustice to that belief, one that does rankle even those that were not enamoured by the sound of a generation that defined the 1990s, and one that certainly should be dropped when you have the opportunity to listen to a work drenched in guilt free sublime introspection.

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(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Marlowe. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Ian Hart, Danny Huston, Colm Meaney, Ian Hart, Alan Cumming, Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje, Stella Stocker, François Arnaud, Mitchell Mullen, Patrick Muldoon, Daniela Melchior, Roberto Peralta, J.M. Maciá, Michael Garvey, David Lifschitz, Anton Antoniadis, Minnie Marx, Seána Kerslake, Julius Cotter, Michael Strelow.

Whether in classic sense of the genre, or in its more functional, but less direct late 20th Century/21st Century observance, Noir influences the cinematic lover in ways that other fields of the medium fail to deliver.

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

The Boston Strangler. Film Review. (2022).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Rory Cochrane, David Dasmaichian, Peter Gerety, Robert John Burke, Morgan Spector, Michael Malvesti, Aurora McLaughlin, Liam Anderson, Antonio X Volpicelli, Nancy E. Carroll, Therese Plaehn, Stephen Thorne, Greg Vrotsos, Ian Lyons, Christian Mallen, Pat Fitz, Pamela Jayne Morgan, Robert C. Kirk, Charlie Thurston, Kate Middleton, Ivan Martin, Kate Avallone, Tamara Hickey, Luke Kirby, Steve Routman, Thomas Kee, Kyra Weeks, John Lee Ames, Richard O’Rourke, James Ciccone, Bill Camp, Jimmy LeBlanc, Gary Galone, David Conley, Josh Drennen, Brian Faherty, Caroline Nesbitt.

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(582 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

G R P Janes: I’ll Write A Book Of Poetry. Poetry Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To see reason and clarity you must first break the chains that tie you down, which bind you to the prison others have created, and which you cannot envisage freedom. That which offers no escape is the greatest reason to keep fighting.

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(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Shaun Dingwall, Mark Benton, Joe Jameson, Waleed Akhtar, Amerjit Deu, Elli Garnett, Julia Hills, Syrus Lowe, Gemma Page, Alistair Petrie, Dan Starkey, Elizabeth Uter, Robert Whitelock, Claire Wyatt.

Across dimensions she has searched for the one she called Doctor. For Rose Tyler, companion of the ninth incarnation of the mysterios man in the box, and the trusted friend of the tenth to bear that name, time has been a burden, time is running out, for across the galaxy, across all dimensions, the stars are going out, and each Earth is facing its own unique set of problems in which it will eventually die.

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(583 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

The Last Of Us. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv, Lamar Johnson, Melanie Lynskey, Nico Parker, Merie Dandridge, Keivonn Woodard, Jeffrey Pierce, John Getz, Gabriel Luna, Samuel Hoeksema, Olivier Ross-Parent. Scott Shepherd, Storm Reid, Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Nick Offerman, Rutina Wesley, John Hannah, Terry Chen, Christine Hakim, Murray Bartlett, Ari Rombough, Yayu A.W. Unro, Graham Greene, Sonia Maria Chirila, Josh Brener, Ruby Lybbert, Sharon Crandall, Christopher Heyerdahl, Nelson Leis, Elaine Miles.

Never has the genre of the zombie apocalypse ever been so in tune with major environmental concerns as the television adaptation of The Last Of Us has managed to portray.

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(550 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Big Finish. Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter. Audio Drama Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Georgia Tennant, Adèle Anderson, Sean Biggerstaff, Anthony Calf, Silas Carson, Siân Phillips, Clare Corbett, Paul Courtenay, Olivia Darnley, John Dorney, Sara Houghton, Arina II, Rosalyn Landor, Pik-Sen Lim, Stuart Milligan, Siân Phillips, Arabella Weir, Sarah Woodward.

Like father, like daughter. One though has the advantage of having had all of time and space to explore for thousands of years, the other, well she has barely scratched the surface of her own place in the Universe, let alone following on in her dad’s footsteps and carrying on the family tradition.

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(528 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Milton Hide: The Holloway. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The temperature rose, the emotions were felt and left to simmer, and it is only right that now Milton Hide’s husband and wife duo, Jim and Josie Tipler, return to the scene of their creative outlet and serve a second helping of their inspiring music, one of the same aural values, but one cut from a different and more varied recipe.

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(369 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)