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Nosferatu. (2025). Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Defoe, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, Adéla Hesová, Milena Konstantinova, Stacy Thunes, Gregory Gudgeon, Robert Russell, Curtis Matthew, Claudiu Trandafir, Georgina Bereghianu, Jordan Haj, Katerina Bila, Maria Ion, Tereza Duskova, Liana Navrot, Mihai Verbinstschi, Karel Dobry, Andrei Sergeev, Matej Benes, Marek Pospichal, Jan Filipenský, Alex East, Christian Dunkley-Clark, Andrea Miltner, Robin Finesilver, Paul A Maynard, Charles Horne, Ella Bernstein, Meredith Digings.

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

Mitch Ryder: With Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

With Love, an expression of truth that some may abuse, but for the majority doesn’t come easily, only to be used in moments when no other words suffice, that will capture the emotions and the sensations that true adoration dictates. It is a fondness framed at the end of a letter, a declaration of fealty, an allegiance to one’s country, with love comes hopeful respect; and it is too respect that Mitch Ryder unveils his latest album with a clear and untameable resolution, to admit that the result is a statement of intent for the listener, that in his words, it is “essential listening”.

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(379 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Kim Wilde: Closer. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What was once close can, over time, become Closer; it is an elevation of the Muse that provides in which we can gain ground and see the details of our emotional heritage in a finer focus, a sharper existence without rumour and without static; and which adds a grandeur we take into the decade of our life which perhaps offers greater reflection, which dictates softly we must take advantage of the Muse’s affection.

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(411 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Perdition.

Perdition

By Ian D. Hall

April…

The children loved to watch a hanging in the park; it was free entertainment after all, and the increasing noise, the chanting of the adults, their parents, their uncles and aunts, and occasional grandparent, meant that they were observing the ritual, the convention, with strict, but glorious observance.

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(3151 words, estimated 12:36 mins reading time)

Doris Brendel: Dog Eat Dog World. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To appreciate the Muse, you must admit that you adore them, for whatever stirs the passion of your craft makes not only your soul unique, but your voice rage against the most powerful tornado of indifference that might come your way as others blow to knock you off your steam driven journey and exploration.

To live without a Muse, no matter the face the place upon the guardian angel’s torso, is surely an intolerable feeling, it offers only a bland expression, a weight of unimaginable tediousness that makes a world suffer and the artist weak, flat, and lacklustre in their offerings to the world.

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(411 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

G3: G3 Reunion Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When gods get together the resulting thunder and storms can be so colossal that those who see and take in the wonder from the seats upon the eternal stage cannot but help be in awe, and when those giants and gods are in harmony, then the resulting dynamic is one of collaborative eruption, a release of energy so spectacular it rivals a volcano in terms of how people view the event.

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

John Jenkins And The James Street Band: Tell Me Joe. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The sense of remarkable cool that comes across in John Jenkins And The James Street Band new single, Tell Me Joe, is not to be underestimated, indeed the hearty groove initiated at the start of the single, almost Bryan Adams-esque in its delivery, the tale that unfolds is one of outstanding collaboration and a desire of a new phase of John’s life encouragingly taking place.

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(366 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Henge: Journey to Voltus B. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The stance of Henge may be one that will possibly confuse the uninitiated but as the cult heroes bring their new album, Journey to Voltus B, to the shores of electronic rock so the reveal of what is an exciting invitation to really enjoy the creation and well as the flight that is awaiting them.

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(358 words, 1 image, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Star Trek: Section 31. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision *

Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Omari Hardwick, Sam Richardson, Robert Kazinsky, Kacey Rohl, Sven Ruygrok, James Hiroyuki Liao, Humberly González, Joe Pingue, Miku Martineau, James Huang, Nikita Kim, Cindy Goh, Houstan Wong, Sonja Smits, Emily Mei, Adam Kenneth Wilson, Augusto Bitter, Jamie Lee Curtis.

There is a palpable disappointment to the expectant fan when it comes to the hyped-up talk to which the unexpected addition to a long running and remarkably influential television series falls foul of storyline, action, and cohesive interaction to the world in which it was conceived.

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(461 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

NOS4A2. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ashleigh Cummings, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Zachary Quinto, Jahkara Smith, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Virginia Krull, Ashley Romans, Mattea Conforti, Jonathan Langdon, Dalton Harrod, Jason David, Celeste Arias, John James Cronin, Paul Schneider, Sweta Keswani, Larry Vigus.

It is a demonstration to the pursuit of a truth and reflection that the writing of Joe Hill resonates with so much angst and the passion of possible sorrow that it could be argued that he is able to take a step into the darkness that his own famous father, and one of the finest exponents of horror of all time, Stephen King, was unable to truly master; that of the ordinary insight given its own inference of damage.

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