Tag Archives: Craig Parkinson

Grace: Want You Dead. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Richie Campbell, Craig Parkinson, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Zoë Tapper, Scott Handy, Brendan Patricks, Rebecca Scroggs, Clare Calbraith, Sam Hoare, Jake Needs, Renny Krupinski, Carolina Valdes, Ray Emmet Brown, Jessica Hayles, Wendy Albiston, Nicky Goldie, Alan Wilyman, Lydia Danistan, Niall Greig Fulton, Ben Crowe, Baker Mukasa, Oisin Stack, Jan Le.

Murder can be straightforward, its often black and white, occasionally grey lines will blur within, but it always frank, sincere, almost uncomplicated; it is the action of emotions, but always without the desire to hide the reason when the culprit is identified; and whilst the response, the detection and the puzzle solved is shrouded in misdirection and distraction, murder is relatively easy to commit.

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(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Grace: Dead Man’s Time. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: John Simm, Richie Campbell, Robert Glenister, Craig Parkinson, Laura Elphinstone, Zoë Tapper, Clare Calbraith, Carolyn Pickles, Kem Hassan, Laura Aikman, Jennifer Macbeth, Ash Hunter, Miranda Heath, Brad Morrison, Neil Hobbs, Niall Greig Fulton, Alan Mahon, Jonny Magnanti, Sarah Leigh, Jensen Clayden, Alan Mooney, Bleu Landau, Phoebe Mulhall, Michelle Connolly, Rebecca Scroggs, Jessica Ellerby, Maria Crittell, Gordon Kennedy, Grant Burgin, Alan Turkington, David Sterne, Sam Hoare, Caroline Valdés, Henry Miller.

Grace: Dead Man’s Time. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Renegade Nell. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Louisa Harland, Frank Dillane, Alice Kremelberg, Enyi Okoronkwo, Bo Bragason, Florence Keen, Nick Mohamed, Adrian Lester, Jake Dunn, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Pip Torrens, Ashna Rabheru, Daniel Rigby, Joe Dixon, Ryan Gage, Mark Heap, Rosalyn Wright, Bronwyn James, John Arthur, Craig Parkinson, Art Malik, Ramon Tikaram, Ruth Madeley, Lenny Rush, Oliver Lansley.

The allure of the highway man has been such that since the tales of Dick Turpin were eulogised by the English Historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth in the 1834 gothic novel Rookwood, the public has been entranced by the dark side of 18th Century Britain’s justice system and the inverse of the heroic story attributed to those who otherwise would have garnered the nation’s affections.

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

Grace: Dead Like You. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Zoë Tapper, Craig Parkinson, Richie Campbell, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Clare Calbraith, Boni Adeliyi, Andy Apollo, Rakie Ayola, Lizzie Back, Steve Broad, Joanna Brookes, Eliot Cable, Charlotte Christof, Alexander Cobb, Darcy Collins, Thomas Coombes, Rai Endah, Heather Ann Foster, Ernest Gromov, Darragh Hand, Robert Hands, Molly Harris, Jo Herbert, Sam Hoare, Rob Jarvis, Claudia Jolly, Max Krupski, Kiera Lester, Sibylla Meienberg, Henry Miller, Luke Norris, Jack Pierce, Tyler-Jo Richardson, Rebecca Scoggs, Nicholas Tizzard, Ben Wiggins, Charlotte Workman, Jay Oliver Yip.

Grace: Dead Like You. Television Drama Review. full post

(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Grace: Dead Tomorrow. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Rakie Ayola, Brad Morrison, Laura Elphinstone, Craig Parkinson, Zoë Tapper, Clare Calbraith, Seham Aar, Shamail Ali, Faith Alabi, Ellis George, Daniel Adegboyega, Richie Campbell, Lucy Phelps, Lu Corfield, Alec Newman, Joséphine de La Baume, Amina Koroma, Jayne McKenna, Antony Byrne, Carolina Valdés, Stephen Boxer, Rebecca Scroggs, Ernest Kingsley Junior.

The harvesting of human organs for profit is an abhorrence, to kill for the body piece is to desecrate the bond that civility and humanity insists upon.

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

Grace: Looking Dead Good. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: John Simm, Amit Shah, Christina Chong, Craig Parkinson, James Tarpey, Kristy Philipps, Richie Campbell, Michael D. Xavier, Mitchell Hunt, Alex Price, Cassie Clare, Rakie Ayola, Owen Roberts, Sidney Kean, Sally Edwards, Laura Elphinstone, William Andrews, Brad Morrison, Henry Miller, Callum Coates, Steven Elder, Darren Tighe, Matt Barkley, Boo Golding, Lauren O’Neil, Nicholas Khan, Adrian Rawlings, Louis Boyer, Austin Hardiman, Robyn Ashwood, Katie Brayben, James Barriscale.

Grace: Looking Dead Good. Television Review. full post

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

Grace: Dead Man’s Footsteps. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Craig Parkinson, James D’Arcy, Zoë Tapper, Richie Campbell, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Rakie Ayola, Dave Lynn, Katie Clarkson-Hill, Caolina Valdés, Margot Leicester, Michael Bertenshaw, Jake Fairbrother, Alexander Cobb, Clare Calbraith, Steven Hartley, Elizabeth Rider, Brian Pettifer, Amy Conachan, Nick Warnford.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Meeton, Katherine Parkinson, Kris Marshall, Kevin Bishop, Johnny Vegas, Mandeep Dhillon, Craig Parkinson, Pippa Heywood, Alice Lowe, June Watson, Steve Oram, Jarred Christmas, Lloyd Griffith, Steve Brody, Norma Cohen, Tina Gray, Chris Willoughby.

The character of the British psyche is such that one of the often-repeated observations of them is that they suffer under the almost back-breaking and chronic apprehension, that they are, until overwhelmingly pushed, passive, practising the art of not wanting to cause a scene, almost aloof, arrogant in their perpetual standoffishness, and generally, cripplingly reserved.

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(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Intergalactic. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Savannah Steyn, Imogen Davies, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Eleanor Tomlinson, Natasha O’Keefe, Diany Samba-Bandza, Parminder Nagra, Samantha Schnitzler, Thomas Turgoose, Craig Parkinson, Oliver Coopersmith, Neil Maskell, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Emily Bruni.

The future for humanity is one still yet to be decided, and whether we make it through the current sets of crises more or less unscathed; whether we take heed of the lessons being taught us as the Earth, our home, screams in pain through our abuse, remains to be seen. Yet still, the golden future could come to pass, there could be silver towers glimmering in the sunlight, we could all be equal under law until we break it, the science fiction utopia could be ours; if we are willing to sacrifice something else that’s precious instead.

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(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Temple. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Mark Strong, Daniel Mays, Carice van Houten, Catherine McCormack, Tobi King Bakare, Lily Newmark, Chloe Pirrie, Ryan McKen, Sienna Kelly, Clare Rushbrook, Sam Hazeldine, Wunmi Mosaku, Craig Parkinson, Marion Bailey, Hiten Patel, Anamaria Marinca, Carolina Main, Theo Solomon, Donald Sumpter, Kate Dickie, Turlough Convery, Rosy Nenjamin, Emma Carter, Naomi Cooper-Davis, Gabriel Gambetta, Jordan Long, Martin McCann, Mark Bazeley, Jo Hartley, Jan Bijvoet, Layo-Christina Akinlude, Adeyinka Akinrinade, Charles Armstrong, Josh Barrow, Daniel Betts, Cornelius Booth.

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(519 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)