Tag Archives: Colin McFarlane

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.

Not Going Out. Series 12. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Breton, Hugh Dennis, Abigail Cruttenden, Deborah Grant, Geoffrey Whitehead, Tony Gardner, Colin McFarlane, Samantha Spiro, Joselyn Jee Esien, Katie Redford, Jolyon Coy, Gwyneth Powell, Joe Wilkinson, Stephanie Langton, Anil Desai, Max Pattison, Francesca Newman, Finley Southby, Max Willis, Rich Keeble.

It may be a huge claim, but few have scaled such a height in British television comedy that they can be compared so favourably to the legendary, and beloved Tony Hancock.

Toast Of Tinseltown. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Matt Berry, Doon Mackichan, Fred Armisen, Tim Downie, Shazad Latif, Cecilia Appiah, Robert Bathurst, Rashida Jones, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Larry David, Natasia Demetriou, Kayvan Novak, Adrian Lukas, Harry Peacock, Aiden Turner, Colin McFarlane, Morgana Robinson, Benedict Wong, Tracey Ann Oberman, Freddie Annobil-Dodoo, Nigel Betts, Jaime Barbakoff, Guy Coombes, Gina Bellman, Freddie Fox, Neil Hudson, Jennifer Armour, Bill Hader, Greg Canestrari, Caroline Hacker, Flaminia Cinque, Mara Huff, Hanako Footman, Stuart Milligan, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Paul Rudd.

Midsomer Murders: Till Death Do Us Part. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Camilla Arfwedson, Ella Blainska, Kelly Brook, Michael Fox, Liz Fraser, Gabrielle Glaister, Nick Hancock, Colin McFarlane, Maya Sondhi, Fenella Woolgar.

To have and to hold…Till Death Do Us Part, sometimes the symbolic words take on extra meaning, especially when a marriage is short-lived, something that is arguably a possibility when the ceremony is held in the vicinity of Midsomer.

The Commuter, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Sam Neil, Elizabeth McGovern, Kilian Scott, Andy Nyman, Shazad Latif, Clara Lago, Florence Pugh, Roland Moller, Dean Charles Chapman, Ella Rae-Smith, Colin McFarlane, Nila Aalia, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Adam Nagaitis, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Damson Idris, Ben Caplan.

 

No matter what we believe, we all have a price that is offered in which we might be tempted to do something that would otherwise go against our centre of morality, our code of honour; it could be bought on by desperation, greed or just a moment of madness in which the brain wanders and thinks well why not, I could do so much with it, and who would know.

Doctor Who: Before The Flood. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Colin McFarlane, Sophie Stone, Zaqi Ismail, Morven Christie, Arsher Ali, Steve Robertson, Paul Kaye, Neil Fingleton, Peter Serafinowicz, Corey Taylor.

There are moments in the world of science fiction in which as a viewer, the onlooker into the world of the fantastic and seemingly off kilter from our own perceptions of reality. Where you just know in a darkened corridor or locked basement where writers are kept from the prying eyes of the public and their demands, that the occasional fist bump, high five or even hugging with certain amounts of glee are to take place when they explain themselves out of a possible predicament in a story line. If that is the case then all three signs of exuberant showmanship should have been heard somewhere around the bay of Cardiff as the fourth episode of the 2015 series of Doctor Who played out.

Doctor Who: Under The Lake. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Colin McFarlane, Sophie Stone, Zaqi Ismail, Morven Christie, Arsher Ali, Steven Robertson.

The lesson to be learned around the Doctor is to be careful what you wish for, to never search for that what you seek, for in asking for adventure rather than it sneaking up on you, by taking you by surprise, the very real possibility that Death may come haunting you is to be remembered and observed.