McDonald & Dodds: Jinxy Sings The Blues. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tale Gouveia, Claire Skinner, Hugh Quarshie, Charlie Jones, Bhavik C. Pankhania, Sophia Myles, Rilwan Abiola Owokoniran, Charley Webb, Will Young, Zaquis Riddick. Jared Garfield, Enzo Squillino Jr., Robert Goodman, Don Gallagher, Roy Smiles, Bill Blackwood, Simon Markey, Matthew Wynn, Michael Howe, Melanie Marshall.

The argument can often be discussed that a social myth or legend can enhance any story that it is placed into, that the subject matter held within the past experience can, and often will, benefit the lore even further.

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(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: The Rule Of Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Claire Skinner, Charlie Jones, Bhavik C. Pankhania, Ace Bhatti, Daniel Lapaine, Lydia Leonard, Pixie Lott, Dipo Ola, John Gordon Sinclair, Toby Stephens, Rico Canadinhas, Siobhan O’ Carroll.

A return to the screens for a detective series that has grown with stature as it progresses to exemplify the sense of charismatic fortitude required when placing two oddly matched people together in order to solve a murder, is as welcome as a sunny, cloudless day after a month of constant storms that threaten to overwhelm the population with a sense of permanent gloom and floods of grief.

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

House Of The Dragon. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Ewan Mitchell, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Glynn-Carney, Fabian Frankel, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans, Sonya Mizuno, Matthew Needham, Jefferson Hall, kurt Egyiawan, Eve Best, Paddy Considine, Paul Kennedy, Phil Daniels, Harry Collett, Max Wrottesley, Bethany Antonia, Anthony Flanagan, Phia Saban, Phoebe Campbell, Nicholas Jones, Vincent Regan, Freddie Fox.

It’s never what was is in the presentation, it is always what is excluded that leaves the viewer, the expectant fan aghast at the omission of what could have been, and the counter narrative that suggests a different conclusion to those paid, employed to deliver the freedom of the story in the best way they see fit.

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(505 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Deadpool & Wolverine. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corin, Matthew Macfadyen, Dafne Keen, Jon Favreau, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes, Channing Tatum, Chris Evans, Henry Cavill, Wunmi Mosaku, Aaron Stanford, Tyler Mane, Karen Soni, Brianna Hildebrand, Shioli Kutsuna, Stefan Kapicic, Randal Reeder, Lewis Tan, Greg Hemphill, Aaron W. Reed, Blake Lively, Nathan Fillion, Ray Park, Matthew McConaughey.

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(614 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

The Great. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Gwilym Lee, Adam Godley, Belinda Bromilow, Bayo Gbadamosi, Charity Wakefield, Douglas Hodge, Julian Barratt, Freddie Fox, Emily Coates, Florence Keith-Roach, Sacha Dhawan, Jane Mahady, Alistair Green, Grace Molony, Henry Meredith, Ali Ariaie, Dustin Demri-Burns, Richard Pyros.

Viewers of the off-beat comedy drama starring Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, and Pheobe Fox, The Great, will have much to cheer as the tales of Russian Court life under the rule of Catherine II finds its final series to be one of absolute integrity to the alter of satire and invective wit.

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(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Interview With A Vampire. Season 2. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles, Bally Gill, Ben Daniels, Suzanne Andrade, Esme Appleton, Jake Cecil, Christopher Geary, Khetphet Phagnasay, Yung Nguyen, Andrew Van Wilpe, Matej Strunc, Jan Hofman, Ben Bradshaw, Jordan Unachukwu, Genevieve Dunne, Sigismund Häggkvist, Rebecca Riisness, Roxane Duran, Luke Brandon Field, Justin Kirk, Ed Birch.

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(527 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Mark Harrison Band: Fools & Clowns. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you’re going to get stuck in the middle with someone then you should always demand that it is someone who fill your mind with ideas so complex that it makes you a better person; but too often we fall for the empty musings of Fools & Clowns…the near unhinged chants of the deranged and the hopeless that somehow, like sirens, catch us in their nets and cause us to sit long legged and loose limbed on sides that we know we normally would avoid.

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(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Piglets. Television Comedy Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Sarah Parish, Mark Heap, Rebecca Humphries, Ukweli Roach, Ricky Champ, Jamie Bisping, Callie Cooke, Halema Hussain, Sukh Ojla, Sam Pote, Abdul Sessay, Colin McFarlane, Kiruna Stamell, Dar Dash, Rachel Lin, Nicholas A. Newman, Kashif Ghole, Dillion Scott-Lewis, Phillipa Peak, Nick Bartlett, Paul Thornley, Stevee Davies, Ray Strasser King, Tom Andrews, Dillon Scott-Lewis.

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

Stephen King: Holly. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is the right of the author to touch upon subjects, even openly discuss them in depth, that will cause distress, consternation, and even anger, and this is absolute in works of fiction, this is imperative to further the discourse of events in the world that have strode alongside us like a demon, a dark shadow whispering to us that we are not in control, we are just forces of agency in a world of darkness.

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(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Visions Of Albion: The Heat. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life is about withstanding pressure, but we must remember that despite thinking of ourselves as diamonds, we are not coal to be forced to perform a miraculous physical alteration, a metamorphosis that sees us shine and gleam; we are human, the traits, the anxieties, the illusions, and the moments of brilliance are born of a different kind of pressure, one created by The Heat, but also the cold whispers of affection and love.

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(349 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)