Tag Archives: Jeany Spark

Moonflower Murders. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan, Conleth Hill, Daniel Mays, Alexandros Logothetis, Adrian Rawlins, Pooky Quesnel, Will Tudor, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Rosealie Craig, Joanna Bacon, Thomas Coombes, Mark Gatiss, Wade Briggs, Rupert Evans, Amy Griffiths, Kostis Daskalakis, Liam Garrigan, Tim Plester, Kate Ashfield, Jeany Spark, Alec Secareanu, Claire Rushbrook, Matthew Beard, Martyn Ellis, Billie Gadsdon, Mitchell Robertson, Gay Soper, Aliona Baranova, Daniel Lapaine, Paul Dunphy, Vasilis Xenikakis, Davina Moon, Oliver Hubard, Shane G. Casey, Sanjeev Kohli.

Moonflower Murders. Television Drama Review. full post

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

Professor T. Series Three. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ben Miller, Emma Naomi, Francis de la Tour, Barney White, Douglas Reith, Sarah Woodward, Andy Gathergood, Juliet Aubrey, Ben Onwukwe, Rupert Turnbull, Juliet Stevenson, Sunetra Sarker, Lee Ross, Jeany Spark, Richard Lintern, Roger Barclay.

Reason is the greatest weapon in any detective’s arsenal, the ability to see through the conflicting lies and deceit with just the use of the mind is enough to elevate any investigator in the eyes of the public. Surveillance, the reliance on electronic snooping on a suspect in any criminal case is all well and good to dot the I’s and cross the T’s in the courts of law, but it is the intuition, the logic and wit of those who devote themselves to the dogged truth that prove a lawbreaker can be caught with sound judgement at all times.

Professor T. Series Three. Television Series Review. full post

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

Collateral, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Carey Mulligan, Jeany Spark, Nicola Walker, John Simm, Nathaniel Martello-White, Ahd, Billie Piper, Kae Alexander, Hayley Squires, Judy Namir, Ben Miles, Orla Brady, Rob Jarvis, Mark Preston, George Georgiou, John Heffernan, Shawn Dixon, Lati Gbaja, Buppha Witt, Molly Simm, Nicola Duffett, Kim Medcalf, Vineeta Rishi, Siobhan McSweeney, Guy List, Richard McCabe, Tom Turner, Jacqueline Boatswain, Robert Portal, Alais Lawson, Brian Vernal, Deborah Findlay, Nick Mohammed, Tony Way, Alex Reid, Adrian Lukis.

Collateral, Television Review. full post

(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Wallander: The Troubled Man. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Terrance Hardiman, Christopher Fairbank, John Lightbody, Jeany Spark, Boel Larrsson, Ann Bell, Simon Chandler, Barnaby Kay, Richard McCabe, Joe Clafin, Harry Hadden-Paton, Garrick Hagon, Nimmy Marsh, Michael Byrne, Sandra Redlaff, Colette O’ Neill, Anton Saunders, David Warner.

You can always trust Kenneth Branagh to pull one special moment out of the bag in whatever venture he is doing, time and time again the actor just seemingly, like a highly rated magician, leaves the audience gasping at the truth he wears behind the character’s mask. From his work promoting Shakespeare, through to the brilliant Shackleton and to his latest venture Wallander, Kenneth Branagh has given everything for the stage and screen.

Wallander: The Troubled Man. Television Review. full post

(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Wallander, A Lesson In Love. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Jeany Spark, Clive Wood, Kitty Peterkin, Harry Hadden-Paton, Terrance Hardiman, Barnaby Kay, Karen Gledhill, Joe Claflin, Cecile Anckarsvard, Richard McCabe, Marie Critchley, Glenn Doherty, Hugh Mitchell, Thomas Coombes, Felicia Womack, Miranda Pleasence, John Lightbody, Boel Larsson, Ann Bell, Marlene Sidaway, Mia Goth, Robin Gott.

There is a demon that stalks all of us, it will eventually claim us all at one time or another and as it sits waiting patiently for us to succumb, the only question worth asking is what form will it take?

Wallander, A Lesson In Love. Television Review. full post

(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Wallander, White Lioness. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Kenneth Brannagh, Bonnie Henna, John Kani, Tumisho Masha, Alex Fearns, Deon Lotz, Tessa Jubber, Lemogang Tsipa, Jeany Spark.

Corruption reaches everywhere in the end, political jealousy just makes it a harder subject to palate and stomach; for greed on such a scale makes those who fought for freedom and an end to suffering seem even more dishonest than those whose behaviour from the start was only self interest seem like the actions of choir boys sneaking a cigarette behind the vestments during Hymn practice.

Wallander, White Lioness. Television Review. full post

(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

The Escape Artist, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo, Ashley Jensen, Jeany Spark, Tony Gardner, Katy Dickie, Brid Brennan, Monica Dolan, Anton Lesser, Roy Marsden, Alistair Petrie, Patrick Ryecart, Stephen Wright, Gus Barry.

David Tennant doesn’t seem to have been off the television during 2013 and thank heavens for that. Not content with playing the lead role as Detective Alec Hardy in the phenomenal Broadchurch, Aiden Hoynes in The Politician’s Husband, the dashing Jean-Francois Mercier in the acclaimed Spies of Warsaw and a little matter of reprising his role as the tenth incarnation of The Doctor for the 50th Anniversary of the much beloved Science Fiction programme, let alone his work on stage for the R.S.C, it’s fair to say that the Scottish actor has never seemed busier.

The Escape Artist, Television Review. full post

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