Tag Archives: Ian Puleston-Davies

A Confession. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Siobhan Finneran, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Jake Davies, Peter Wight, Darcy Vanhinsbergh, Lolly Jones, Ian Puleston-Davies, Simone Lahbib, Owain Arthur, Florence Howard, Jessica D’Arcy, Daniel Betts, Joe Absolom, Faye McKeever, Derek Riddell, Charlie Cooper, Rufus Gerhardt-Williams, Dominic Tighe, Kate Ashfield, Emma Clifford, Anna Wilson-Jones, Caroline Bartleet, Maimie McCoy, David Keeling, David Nellist, Christopher Fulford, Orla Hill, Lisa Faulkner, John Thomson.

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(611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

Hatton Garden. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Spall, David Hayman, Alex Norton, Brian F. O’ Byrne, Geoff Bell, Nasser Memarzia, Amira Ghazalla, Lucy Thackeray, Tom Christian, Thomas Coombes, T’Nia Miller, Paul Blackwell, Karl Farrer, Ian Puleston-Davies, Deborah Rock, Toni Thorpe.

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

Maigret: Dead Man. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Lucy Cohu, Shaun Dingwall, John Light, Mark Heap, Katia Bokor, Aiden McArdle, Karen Cagnon, Amber Anderson, Michael Fitzgerald, Ian Puleston-Davies, Peter Schueller, Hugh Simon.

There are many interpretations to any role, there are sublime ones and there are fresh readings, the ones that are arguably more remarkable because you know deep down the actor portraying the part has spent virtually all their lives preparing for the part and have therefore found the moment to give the exact reading the character deserves. For Rowan Atkinson, the role of Maigret must have played over and over again in his mind, the right nuance, the deliberate thought, the compassion, even to those in who do not deserve it, has to played just right and in the tale Dead Man, Rowan Atkinson plays Maigret with absolute conviction.

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(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Marcella, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anna Friel, Ray Panthaki, Nina Sosanya, Nicholas Pinnock, Charlie Covell, Sinéad Cusack, Jack Doolan, Harry Lloyd, Tobias Santelmann, Jamie Bamber, Patrick Baladi, Ben Cura, Ian Puleston-Davies, Emil Hostina, Susannah Wise, Imogen Fairies, Laura Carmichael, Stephen Lord, Yasen Atour, Jasmine Breinburg, Florence Pugh, Nick Hendrix, George Barnes, Andrew Lancel, Maeve Dermody.

The art of the Noir is to keep the viewer or reader guessing long enough that they doubt their own verdict, their own deductive reasoning and to question further their own possible prejudices of one suspect or another. It is an art fully utilised by the writers of the series Marcella and one that really got under the skin as each episode progressed.

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

Lewis: What Lies Tangled. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kevin Whatley, Laurence Fox, Angela Griffin, Clare Holman, David Warner, Oliver Lansley, Zoë Tapper, Peter De Jersey, Mali Harries, Tristam Saunders, Ian Puleston-Davies, Emerald O’ Hanrahan, Steve Toussaint, Lynda Rooke, Tosin Cole.

The streets of Oxford will be poorer for the fact that Lewis, one of the true greats of British Crime Drama, has been allowed to finish before its time. Robbie Lewis, a man taught by the best that the dreaming spires of Oxford could wish to have investigating its murders and foul deeds, a man to whom honour was all and a man who came back after riding into the sunset, this was a man with a past so knotted in the streets of Oxford that to lose him, the audiences might find themselves bereft and asking What Lies Tangled?

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