Tag Archives: Ashley Jensen

Shetland (Series Eight). Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Ashley Jensen, Alison O’Donnell, Steven Robertson, Jamie Sives,  Nina Tousaint-White, Dawn Steele, Phyllis Logan, Lorraine McIntosh, Maisie Norma Seaton, Natasha Cottriall, Joseph Thompson, Joe Bolland, Arnas Fedaravicius, Karl Collins, Don Gilet, Annie Louise Ross, Lewis Howden, Ian Bustard, Conor McCarry, Eubha Akilade, Tibu Fortes, Jakub Bednarcyyk, Barry O’Connor, Russ Bain, Neil Pendelton, Ross Allan, Gemma Laurie, Ian Dunnett Jnr, Simon Tait, Francesco Piacentini-Smith, Jo Cameron-Brown, Steven Miller, Sandy Grierson, Sean Brown, Kevan Mackenzie, Anne Kidd, Manjinder Virk. 

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(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

The Lobster, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Coleman, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen, Jessica Barden, Angeliki Papoulia, Ariane Labed, Roland Ferrandi, Ewen MacIntosh, Roland Ferrandi, Garry Mountaine, EmmaEdel O’Shea, Garry Mountaine.

There are films that engross you, that pull you in from the very start, the intrigue of the dynamic opening, that no matter how the film progresses from that point, no matter the connection made between film-goer and intended meaning by the writer and director, you are already living and breathing in the black celluloid dystopia on offer, such is the surreal quality of life and of The Lobster.

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

The Escape Artist, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo, Ashley Jensen, Jeany Spark, Tony Gardner, Katy Dickie, Brid Brennan, Monica Dolan, Anton Lesser, Roy Marsden, Alistair Petrie, Patrick Ryecart, Stephen Wright, Gus Barry.

David Tennant doesn’t seem to have been off the television during 2013 and thank heavens for that. Not content with playing the lead role as Detective Alec Hardy in the phenomenal Broadchurch, Aiden Hoynes in The Politician’s Husband, the dashing Jean-Francois Mercier in the acclaimed Spies of Warsaw and a little matter of reprising his role as the tenth incarnation of The Doctor for the 50th Anniversary of the much beloved Science Fiction programme, let alone his work on stage for the R.S.C, it’s fair to say that the Scottish actor has never seemed busier.

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(457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists. Film Review.

Originally published by L.S.Media. April 15th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Salma Hayek, Martin Freeman, Lenny Henry, Brendan Gleeson, Brian Blessed, Russell Tovey, Ashley Jensen, Jeremy Piven.

So the truth is out, Queen Victoria was a lover of fine dining of exotic endangered animals including panda bear. Charles Darwin looked suspiciously related to his manpanzee Mr. Bobo and pirates are just as nice and thoughtful, well-spoken people who plunder their way across the high seas only because there is a shiny trophy at the end of the year. At least this is how it works in the utterly absorbing world of Aardman Animations and the world of stop-motion film.

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(550 words, 1 image, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)