Tag Archives: Holliday Grainger

Strike: Troubled Blood. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Sophie Ward, Jonas Armstrong, Kenneth Cranham, Robin Askwith, Sutara Gayle, Abigail Lawrie, Jessica Impiazzi, Georgia Furlong, Tilly Walker, Carys Bowkett, Thomas Harper-Jones, Ian Redford, Linda Bassett, Syrus Lowe, Phil Langhorne, Kerr Logan, Sarah Sweeney, Genevieve Hulme Beaman, Artie Wilkinson-Hunt, Morgan Jones, Kate Speak, Kierston Wareing, Calvin Dean, Charlie Price, Samuel Oatley, Fionnula Flanagan, Mazz Murray, Giles Matthey, Toni Peach, Eliza Collings, Jack Morris, Ruth Sheen, Andy de la Tour, Jacob James Beswick, Lionelle Nsarhaza, Sam Woolf, Crispin Letts, James Corrigan, Celia Learmonth, Jack Greenlees, Carol MacReady, Anna Calder-Marshall, Madhav Sharma, Dayo Koleosho, Claire Dunbar, Simon Snashall, Ben Crompton, Flaminia Cinque, Cherie Lunghi, Edward Rowe, Michael Tully, Daniel Peacock, Michael Byrne, Mary Roscoe, Billy Boyle, Mollie Holder, Christina Cole, Charlotte Eaton, Henri Merriam, Phil Cornwell, Suzanne Burden, Joe Johnsey.

Strike: Troubled Blood. Television Review. full post

(627 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

The Capture. Television Review. Series Two.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Holliday Grainger, Paapa Essiedu, Ben Miles, Lia Williams, Ron Perlman, Cavin Clerkin, Ginny Holder, Nigel Lindsay, Peter Singh, Lewis Kirk, Daisy Waterstone, Charlie Murphy, Indira Varma, Andy Nyman, Tessa Wong, Natalie Drew, Joseph Arkley, Harry Michell, Keira Chansa, Jack Sandle, Rob Yang, Joseph Steyne, Darren Bancroft, Angus Wright, Claire Price, Sam Hoare, Chris Corrigan, Ocean M Harris, Amy Conachan, Gemma Dyllen, Kammy Darweish, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Cory Peterson, Archie Costelloe, John King, Bonnie Baddoo, John King, Christopher Torretto, Andrew Joshi, Sandra James-Young, Henry Goodman, Joanna Burnett, David Yip.

The Capture. Television Review. Series Two. full post

(553 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Strike: Lethal White. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Kerr Logan, Robert Glenister, Sophie Winkleman, Christine Cole, Robert Pugh, Sophie Colquhoun, Nicholas Agnew, Suzanne Burden, Paul Butterworth, Judi Kenley, Joe Johnsey, Andrew Hawley, Ralph Davis, Suzanne Toase, Natalie Gumede, Joseph Quinn, Alfie Tardi, James Mellish, William Gurney, Nick Blood, Safron Coomber, Jamie Ankrah, Joel Gillman, Robyn Holdaway, Kathleen Cranham, Danny Ashok, Jaqueline Boatswain, Julie Morgan Price, Silas Carson, Jack Greenlees, Ruth Lass, Natalie Walter, Adam Long, Nicholas Burns, Mandana Jones, Ann Akin, Shenagh Govan.

Strike: Lethal White. Television Review. full post

(471 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

The Capture. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Holliday Grainger, Callum Turner, Laura Haddock, Ben Miles, Barry Ward, Ginny Holder, Cavan Clerkin, Ron Perlman, Famke Janssen, Alexander Forsyth, Nigel Lindsay, Ian Pirie, Lia Williams, Paul Ritter, Daisy Waterstone.

The worn out old maxim associated with state surveillance that goes “If you don’t do anything wrong then you have nothing to be concerned about”, has been proven to be a falsehood that has been adopted by the untrustworthy and the cynical on both sides of the political spectrum as absolute mantra, a modern hymn in which to beat the masses into a behaviour pattern to which the instruments and threats of damnation could now only look upon as truly effective and a one true god.

The Capture. Television Review. full post

(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Strike: The Silkworm. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Tim McInnerny, Dominic Mafham, Tasmin Topolski, Tom Greaves, Monica Dolan, Liz Williams, Rob Callender, Jeremy Swift, Peter Sullivan, Dorothy Atkinson, Catherine Bailey.

Why anyone would want to be friends with a novelist or any form of writer who sees the muse in almost anything is one of those rare questions that never truly gets answered; to be a friend of a writer is to open yourself up to the knowledge that some part of your personality might be the basis of a character’s reason for existing somewhere down the line.

Strike: The Silkworm. Television Review. full post

(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Strike:The Cuckoo’s Calling. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Martin Shaw, Davis Avery, Leo Bill, Tara Fitzgerald, Kadiff Kirwan, Kerr Logan, Natasha O’Keeffe, Killian Scott, Bronson Webb, Elarica Johnson, Amber Anderson, Brian Bovell, Adelle Leonce, Kevin Fuller, Greg McKenzie, Jazz Cartier, Tezlym Senior-Sakutu, Suzanna Hamilton, Callie Coke, Sian Phillips.

There is always a detective waiting in the wings, a shadow waiting to emerge and be able to save the day with cunning, remarkable insight and the odd quirk to their name; in an age where television and arguably literature seems to have cornered every possible way to portray the down at heel gumshoe or detective with a flaw, along comes Cormoran Strike to add another dimension to the armchair detective’s televised alter ego.

Strike:The Cuckoo’s Calling. Television Review. full post

(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

My Cousin Rachel. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Sam Claflin, Rachel Weisz, Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen, Poppy Lee Friar, Andrew Knott, Andrew Havill, Vicky Pepperdine, Katherine Pearce, Harry Hays, Tristram Davies, Chris Gallarus, Bobby Scott, Freeman.

The very name Daphne Du Maurier is one surely that should conjure up the very essence of British writing and one that stands alongside the greatest of the 20th Century, Agatha Christie and Virginia Woolf, and yet for one of Cornwall’s greatest adopted daughters, her passionate, often moody but always multi-layered work, doesn’t get the screen treatment it deserves, and aside from the fantastic adaption of The Birds and Rebecca by the legendary director Alfred Hitchcock, the writer has been pretty much left of the list of books that are ripe for bringing to an even greater audience.

My Cousin Rachel. Film Review. full post

(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Television Review (2015).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

 

Cast: Holliday Grainger, Richard Madden, James Norton, Jodie Comer, Howard Ward, Elizabeth Rider, Tony Pritchard, Enzo Cilenti, Ian Peck, Eve Ponsonby, Edward Holcroft, Sebastian Gray, Lee Paul Atkinson, Andrew Cronin, Nick Davies, Lisa Jay Jenkins, Dylan Jones, Callum Luke Lewis, Gavin Lee Lewis, Jamie McKee, Ricky Singh.

 

Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Television Review (2015). full post

(566 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)