Tag Archives: Ian McElhinney

The Outlaws. Series Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rhianne Baretto, Darren Boyd, Gamba Cole, Jessica Gunning, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Grace Calder, Stephen Merchant, Kojo Kamara, Charles Babalola, Christopher Walken, Tom Hanson, Ian McElhinney, Claes Bang, Rhys Yates, Patrick Robinson, Nicholas Rowe, Harry Trevaldwyn, Richard E. Grant, Matilda Ziegler.

If there is somebody to whom can bring a group of well-intentioned misfits be people that you want to be friends with, then Stephen Merchant is to be considered a master of the art.

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

A Small Light. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Live Schreiber, Billie Boullet, Ashley Brooke, Amira Casar, Ian McElhinney, Sally Messham, Andy Nyman, Nichlas Burns, Rudi Goodman, Caroline Katz, Liza Sadovy, Laurie Kynaston, Noah Taylor, Sebastian Armesto, Bill Milner, Sean Hart, Hanna Van Vliet, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jim High, Cosima Shaw, Tom Stourton, Daniel Donskoy, Dylan Edwards, Sarah T. Cohen, Vicki Pepperdine, Victor McGuire, Jeff Rawle.

A Small Light. Television Series Review. full post

(657 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

The Outlaws (Series Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Rhianne Barreto, Darren Boyd, Gamba Cole, Charles Babalola, Jessica Gunning, Stephen Merchant, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Christopher Walken, Grace Calder, Aiyana Goodfellow, Dolly Wells, Kojo Kamara, Tom Hanson, Ian McElhinney, Nina Wadia, Guillermo Bedward, Isla Gie, Gyuri Sarossy, Marcus Fraser, Lois Chimimba, Amanda Drew, Claes Bang, Joseph Passafaro, Chicho Tche, Jessica Boyde, Rufus Wright, Chloe Partridge, Rosa Robson, Julia Davis, Verity Blyth, Jonny Weldon, Gabrielle Sheppard.

The Outlaws (Series Two). Television Review. full post

(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

The Outlaws. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Rhianne Barreto, Gambia Cole, Christopher Walken, Eleanor Tomlinson, Darren Boyd, Clare Perkins, Charles Babalola, Stephen Merchant, Isla Gie, Jessica Gunning, Grace Calder, James Nelson-Joyce, Guillermo Bedward, Aiyana Goodfellow, Ian McElhinney, Gyuri Sarossy, Dolly Wells, Marcus Fraser, Tom Hanson, Kojo Kamara, Sam Troughton, Inez Solomon, Evelyn Temple, Claes Bang, Hannah Brownlie, Josh Alexander, Leigh Williams, Michael Cochrane, Richard E. Grant.

The Outlaws. Television Review. full post

(586 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

The Deceived. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Catherine Walker, Emily Reid, Emmett J. Scanlan, Paul Mescal, Eleanor Methven, Ian McElhinney, Shelley Conn, Dempsey Bovell, Louisa Harland, Lloyd Everitt, Cathy-Brennan Bradley, Saffron Coomber, Ciara Berkley, Ava Gallagher, Sophia Adli, Niall Cusack, Vanessa Ifediora, Louise Mathews, Shashi Rami, Catherine Rees, Declan Rodgers, Ethan Yandall, Frank Cannon.

Never trust a writer, they have spent all their life working out how to use their voice to add suspicion and mislead others; such is the finesse in which they have created their characters ability to betray, it is possible to believe everything they say and feel elated when the truth is revealed.

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

Mrs Wilson. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ruth Wilson, Iain Glen, Otto Farrant, Fiona Shaw, Calam Lynch, Keeley Hawes, Anupam Kher, Joy Richardson, Ian McElhinney, Patrick Kennedy, Elizabeth Rider, Dave Hill, Wilf Scolding, Barbara Marten, Joseph Mydell, Alex Blake, Gemma McElhinney.

It is an inescapable certainty that truth is far more stranger than fiction could ever hope to be, the stories we weave in existence, through the lies we tell ourselves to make our lives more bearable, to the possible deceit in which we hold others captive by, truth is the reality in which we all find our hidden depths in which to practice either to deceive, or to thrill with our stories.

Mrs Wilson. Television Review. full post

(570 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Rogue One, A Star Wars Story. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, Mads Mikkelsen, Jimmy Smits, Alistair Petrie, Genevieve O’Reilly, Ben Daniels, Paul Kasey, Ian McElhinney, Fares Fares, Jonathan Aris, James Earl Jones, Valene Kane, Daniel Mays.

It was always inevitable, always going to happen at some point, perhaps in a galaxy not too far away but someone was always going to produce a prequel to the prequels and do it after all the sequels had been set near enough in Cordite. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the tale that all fans of the space saga has fully deserved, the one big hole that needed not just filling, but doing so with respect, with elegance and style and perhaps even with the odd nod to the Universe at large.

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(467 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Ripper Street: The Peace of Edmund Reid. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, Lydia Wilson, Clive Russell, David Dawson, Josh O’ Connor, Ian McElhinney, Louise Brealey, Anna Burnett, David Wilmot, Leanne Best, Anton Giltrap, Elliot Levey.

The Peace of Edmund Reid is perhaps one that the people of Whitechapel might never have thought might be attained, in real 19th Century London or indeed in the fictional portrayal, made seamless and near perfect by Matthew Macfadyen, yet peace after so much devastation is not so much an impossible ask, it only requires all the circles of Hell to finally close and be seen to banished.

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(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Ripper Street: Live Free, Live True. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, David Wilmot, David Dawson, Josh O’ Connor, Louise Brealey, Ian McElhinney, Haydn Gwynne, Martin Compston, Peter McDonald, Emily Taaffe, Leanne Best, Anna Burnett, Danial Cerqueira, Enda Kilroy, Bradley Hall, Maeve O’ Mahony, Brendan Morrissey.

The issue of abortion is still one that causes heated debates, within wider society and also within the prospective family unit; it is a debate where the parameters change the closer it hits to home.

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

Wodehouse In Exile, Television Review. B.B.C.4.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tim Pigott-Smith, Zoe Wanamaker, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Curran McKay, Simon Coury, Robert Cooper, Paul Ritter, Flora Montgomery, Paul Mallon, Niall Cusack, Kevin Trainor, Conor Grimes, Richard Dormer, Ian McElhinney, Paul Kennedy.

Wodehouse In Exile, Television Review. B.B.C.4. full post

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