Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Adrian Edmondson, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Simon Callow, Christopher Ryan, Madeleine Paulson.
In many ways Waiting For Waiting For Godot is the play that Adrian Edmondson was born to write; full of pathos, a piece of art from Samuel Beckett that has had the actor/writer/comedian enthralled and obsessed since he was a young man.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Jonathan Aris, Lorne MacFadyen, Lizzy Watts, Tyger Drew-Honey, Matt Addis, Joanna Brooks, Jessica Dennis, Paul Panting, Alistair McGowan, Barkha Bahar.
National tragedies have a habit of slowly fading from the memory over time, not least of all because those directly involved in the disaster will themselves succumb to the passing of time, but it is because of nature; we as citizens can carry placards in anger, we can weep in unison at the senselessness of the catastrophe, we can rage and demand tougher actions to keep people safe, and we will seek retribution against the one person we might hold responsible…even if it defined to have been caused by simple misfortune, or the most unfortunate of mistakes.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ella Lily Hyland, Matthew Rhys, Mimi Keene, Clarke Peters, Jack Farthing, Anjana Vasan, Adam Hugill, Khalil Ben Gharbia, Jackie Clune, Grace Doherty, Anjelica Huston, Ravi Multani, Jack Staddon, Alexander Cobb, James Brooker, Lyle Wren, Michael Culkin, Honor Davis-Pye, Samuel W. Hodgson, Tristan Beint, Peter Forbes, Alexander Squires.
Murder, at its most inventive, sells for television and cinema almost unlike any other genre; it is the basic desire to see the restitution of justice, the chance for the armchair detective to sharpen their wits against the author of the piece, and to satisfy a need to see if they could indeed also get away with the most horrendous of acts one human can commit on another.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
Cast: Jack Bannon, Ryan Fletcher, Dorothy Atkinson, Ben Aldridge, Emma Paetz, Ramon Tikaram, Paloma Faith, Harriet Slater, Polly Walker, Jason Flemyng, Ian Puleston-Davies, Simon Manyonda, Hainsley Lloyd Bennett, Simon Day, Anna Chancellor, Saikat Ahamed, Jessica Ellerby, Edward Hogg, James Purefoy, Danny Webb, Salóme Gunnarsdóttir, Tristram Wymark, Sarah Alexander, Richard Dillane, Paul Kaye, Jonjo O’Neill, Emma Corrin, Jing Lusi, Freddy Carter, Peter Guinness, Jaye Griffiths, Dermot Crowley, Sally Phillips, Felicity Kendal, Sam Hoare.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Paul Whitehouse, Harry Enfield, Don Gilet, Lee Ross, Tony Gardner, Mika Simmons, Simon Greenall, Phil Cornwell, Toby Longworth, Andrew McGibbon, Ian Pearce, Karen Bartke.
Out of adversity comes genius, from hardship come friendship that lasts a lifetime, and When Alan Met Ray in a T.B. sanitorium in post war Britain, when neither 18-year-old were expected to live much longer thanks to the disease the world called White Plague or Consumption ravaging their lungs and body, what came out of this terrible situation was a comradeship for Alan Simpson and Ray Galton that transcended disease and saw the pair became two of Britain’s much loved providers of comedy thanks to their working with Tony Hancock on radio and television, and the irreplaceable Harry H. Corbett and Wilfred Brambell on the sheer delight that was Steptoe And Son.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Alex Garfin, Michael Bishop, Erik Valdez, Inde Navarrette, Wolé Parks, Tayler Buck, Sofia Hasmik, Chad L. Coleman, Dylan Walsh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Michael Dudlitz, Mariana Klaveno, Yvonne Chapman, Paul Lazenby, Ryan Jefferson, Rebecca Staab, Elizabeth Henstridge, Michelle Scarabelli, Laara Sadiq, Natalie Moon, Samantha Di Francesco, Adrian Glynn McMorran, Douglas Smith, Tom Cavanagh, Nikolai Witschl, Dean Redman, David Giuntoli, Dominic Fugere.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Patrick Gibson, Christian Slater, Molly Brown, Christina Milian, James Martinez, Alex Shimizu, Reno Wilson, Patrick Dempsey, Michael C. Hall, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brittany Allen, Aaron Jennings, Raquel Justice, Sarah Kinsey, Eli Sherman, Jasper Lewis, Xander Mateo, London Thatcher, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Issac Gonzalez Rossi, Chandler Lovelle, Roberto Sanchez, Amanda Brooks, Carlo Mendez, Randy Gonzalez, Roby Attal, Brayden Gleave, Caryle Tamaren.
Serial killers rarely display or grasp the idea of empathy, and we the onlookers to their crimes are often surprised by the notion that they attract a huge fan base during their lifetime once they have been placed behind bars.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Seán Carlsen, Rachel Handshaw, Safiyya Ingar, Jay Reum, Holly Ashman, Helen Bang, Edwin Flay, Nicholas McArdle, Fiona McClure, Glen McCready, Peter Rae, Flavie Ravenhill, Vitas Varnas.
There are many examples of cult American television series that have undergone the rounds of constant possible adaption for the modern eye, and most have failed to deliver upon the story first laid down in stone, instead deciding that the story had to be told again from the beginning with a brasher, edgier, and dare it be said, a more idealised portrayal when it comes to the relationships and the body of the self within the parameters of the narrative.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Annabel Baldwin, Janie Dee, Jack Myers, Geoffrey Aymer, Nicholas Briggs, Hannah Brown, Jesse Dunbar, John H Elson, Louise Falkner, Raj Ghatak, Helen Goldwyn, Kate O’ Rourke, Gesella Ohaka, Logan Ritchie, Arabella Smith-James, Andrew James-Spooner, Holly Spooner, Sam Stafford.
The allegories and symbols that were explicitly portrayed on the hit American television series V were so plain to the naked eye that the viewer never once had to question that the sci-fi classic was truly about the representation of war, collusion, consent by power, and the requirement of all citizens to take a stand against the evils of fascism.
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.