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Romantic Getaway. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, Johnny Vegas, Harrie Hayes, Phaldut Sharma, Neil D’Souza, Julie Legrand, Jordan Coulson, Mensah Bediako, Jackie Morrison, Stephen Samson, Jerry-Jane Pears, Chris Aukett, Charlie Brook, Alwyne Taylor, Charles Baker, Martin Buchanan, Mara Allen, Billy Clements, Alexandr Delamere, Tom Davis, Lila Garrad, Jules Brown, Adam Young, Melissa Phillips, David Bresnahan, Farshid Rokey, Steven Jeram, Simon DeSilva, Chris Robb, Lindsay Townley.

What could be the most desired event in your life you could make happen without stepping across a moral line.

Romantic Getaway. Television Review. full post

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

John Blek: Until The Rivers Run Dry. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a certain kind of loyalty which makes itself known when an artist can finish a project within a timeframe that to some may appear quick, but to others who understand fully that the dedication observed is one that has come from having, in essence, everything almost worked out before you even step inside a studio.

Whilst there is a commendable Avent Garde spirit to be found in going with the flow, the sense of structure could be found to be missing, or at least unseen by the naked emotion of those in the vicinity of the process and those to who will hear, sense, dream, or touch the result with adoration.

John Blek: Until The Rivers Run Dry. Album Review. full post

(416 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Gloria Taylor: Sun. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Make hay whilst the Sun shines, or take the inspiration of the view that you behold when the clouds have been bested, when the darkened skies of misfortune and ill ease have been banished, and allow the healthy benefits of a clear mind to take you to a place that you might have sighted on occasion, but never been permitted to experience, that of peace, of tranquil repose, and the cease-fire of all hostilities imposed by others.

Gloria Taylor: Sun. E.P. Review. full post

(385 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

The Estate. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Toni Collette, Anne Farris, David Duchovny, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kathleen Turner, Ron Livingstone, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Danny Vinson, Gichi Gamba, Patricia French, Eric Esteban, Kim Baptiste, Billy Slaughter, Ronald Chavis.

The things we do for love are never as sincere or biased as that in which we do for a sizeable inheritance.

The Estate. Film Review. full post

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

Harrison Tonks: In The Middle Of The Night. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Play me a memory that I haven’t got to yet…

Life will always surprise you, if you allow yourself to wade in waters that you don’t know. The guidebooks may hint at the discovery and delight to be found in strange depths of human experience, the pictures and small descriptions might urge you to dip your toe, but until you do so In The Middle Of The Night and away from the glaring daylight, the experience, the joy, will remain truly out of sight, unknown.

Harrison Tonks: In The Middle Of The Night. Single Review. full post

(384 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Kelly Bayfield: Wave Machine. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Music is the Wave Machine to which our minds respond in peaks and troughs.

Our hearts may melt at the spoken gesture of a Shakespearean Sonnett, our eyes may mist at the sight of a Constable’s Haywain or grow inclined to embrace a surreal portion of Dali’s expression, we can even wax lyrical ourselves when describing a momentous piece of architecture to a person who cannot see, but music, the sound and emotion that accompanies a human voice as it seeks to address the joy, the love, the fear, the hatred and damage, of the grief caused by existing in the now, that is the sheer drive that causes the Wave Machine to be our constant friend and guide.

Kelly Bayfield: Wave Machine. Album Review. full post

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

Willow. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ruby Cruz, Warwick Davis, Ellie Bamber, Erin Kellyman, Tony Revolori, Amar Chadha-Patel, Dempsey Byrk, Claudia Hughes, Ralph Ineson, Graham Hughes, Joonas Suotamo, Sifiso Mazibuko, Kenny Knight, Joanne Whalley, Rosebell Laurenti Sellers, Adwoa Aboah, Derek Horsham, Annabelle Davis, Simeon Dyer, Daniel Naprous, Eileen Davies, Vitas Le Bas, Charlie Rawes, Talisa Garcia, Alexis Rodney, Christian Slater, Tom Wilton, Dee Tails, Simon Armstrong, Mario Revolori, Jean Marsh, Julian Glover, Sarah Bennett, Sallyanne Law, Hannah Waddingham, Amalia Vitale.

Willow. Television Series Review. full post

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

Downton Abbey. A New Era. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Allen Leach, Tuppence Middleton, Samantha Bond, Imelda Staunton, Laura Carmichael, Harry Hadden-Paton, Dougles Reith, Phyllis Logan, Jim Carter, Kevin Doyle, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Brendan Coyle, Lesley Nicol, Sophie McShera, Michael Fox, Raquel Cassidy, Charlie Watson, Bibi Burr, Olive Burr, Eva Samms, Karina Samms, Fifi Hart. Oliver Barker, Zac Barker, Archer Robins, Sue Johnston, Jonathan Coy, Huh Dancy, Paul Copley, Laura Haddock, Dominic West, Jonathan Zaccai, Nathalie Baye, Alex Skarbek, Oliver Ciaverie, David Oliver Fischer, Alex Macqueen.

Downton Abbey. A New Era. Film Review. full post

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

The Last Son Of Isaac Lemay. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sam Worthington, Colson Baker, Thomas Jane, Emily Marie Palmer, Heather Graham, Kim DeLonghi, Danny Bohnen, Scotty Bohnen, Alex Meraz, James Landry Hébert, Bates Wilder, James Do Giacomo, Kendra Alaura, Hiram A. Murray, David Silverman, David Myers Gregory, Steve Silkotch, Andrew Stecker, Michael McCartney, Trinity Schuetzie, Fiona Schuetzie, Jodie Moore, Gary Gwin, Casey Birdinground, Kathleen Timberman, Tucson Vernon Walker, Tim Montana, Thomas White, Tanaisia Slaughter, Patrick Thomas O’ Brien, Quentin Schuetzle, Christine Mayn.

The Last Son Of Isaac Lemay. Film Review. full post

(542 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Fe Salomon: Living Rooms. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For some the idea of a large built-up city is one caught up in a nightmare of conformity and tight-fitting constriction, claustrophobic and oppressive suffocation. They see the lights of Living Rooms that hang implausibly in the sky, and they feel trapped by the knowledge that the metropolitan urban landscape does not offer the wide spaces of imagination that the forests and the fields outside their doors in which they need to feel secure, in which their stories can roam free.

Fe Salomon: Living Rooms. Album Review. full post

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