Tag Archives: Jill Halfpenny

The Cuckoo. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jill Halfpenny, Lee Ingleby, Claire Goose, Freya Hannan-Mills, Marjorie Yates, Barry John Kinsella, Colleen Keogh, Maeve Fitzgerald.

We allow people into our lives on the unspoken rule that they will not harm us, that once they cross the threshold of our home they are subject to a premise of decency and courtesy; and if we require them to leave because a tension has become unbearable then they do so with a timely departure lest their welcome turn irrevocably broken.

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(363 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

The Long Shadow. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision

Cast: David Morrissey, Lee Ingleby, Toby Jones, Liz White, Michael McElhatton, Jack Deam, Toby Jones, Chloe Harris, Steven Waddington, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Kris Hitchin, Stephen Tompkinson, Liam Garrigan, Christopher Hatherall, John Henshaw, Victoria Myers, Shaun Thomas, Charley Webb, James Clay, Emma Cunniffe, Adam Long, Kate Rutter, Dorothy Atkinson, Sorcha Groundsell, Jill Halfpenny, Marcus Fraser, Daniel Mays, Charlotte Tyree, Paul Brennen, Colin R. Campbell, Alexa Davies, Emma Williams, Nicola Stephenson, Robert James-Collier, Daisy Waterstone, Mark Stobbart, Sammy Winward, Katherine Kelly, Nigel Betts.

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(630 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Misdirection. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Jill Halfpenny, Fionn Whitehead, Tom Goodman-Hill.

A sleight of hand always captivates the audience, their faces caught somewhere between incredulity and amazement, the wonder of how the penny drops as they conclude how the trick was conducted right in front of them, whilst all the time believing they could not be caught out, that they were alert to every possibility that could occur.

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(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Ghost Stories. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther, Paul Warren, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nicholas Burns, Louise Atkins, Lesley Harcourt, Amy Doyle, Deborah Wastell, Daniel Hill, Christine Dalby, Jill Halfpenny, Billy Sneddon, Maggie McCarthy, Joe Osborne, Maria Major, Ramzan Miah, Benji Ming, Emily Carding, Leonard Byrne, Macie Allen, Ryan Oliva, Samuel Bottomly, Jake Davies, Oliver Woollford, Callum Goulden, Mike Aarons, Derren Brown, Anthony Davis.

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(551 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Babylon, Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Brit Marling, James Nesbitt, Bertie Carvel, Paterson Joseph, Ella Smith, Jonny Sweet, Nicola Walker, Cavan Clerkin, Jill Halfpenny, Adam Deacon, Nick Blood, Stuart Martin, Andrew Brooke.

There are times when the continuous stick against the back of the collective head is not enough, sometimes it takes cleverly written satire and drama with very well hidden comic undertones to get the message across that in 21st Century Britain, the apparent message is all consuming and powerful. The message is as loud and perhaps as obnoxious as its counterpart and sometimes occasional lover, the economy. If listened too very carefully, the two words can be interpreted as one and the same and the mantra gets repeated over an d over again like a man finding out that raw onions is bad for his digestive system but carries on believing that they are doing him good just because it helps expel wind.

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(560 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Babylon, Television Review. Channel 4.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Brit Marling, James Nesbitt, James Robinson, Paterson Joseph, Adam Deacon, Jill Halfpenny, Mark Womack, Nicola Walker, Daniel Kaluuya, Nick Blood, Andrew Brooke, Deborah Rosan, Lee Nicholas Harris, Bertie Carvel, Lee Asquith-Coe, Navin Chowdhry, Ella Smith, Jaspal Badwell, Vic Waghorn, Paul Blackwell, Stuart Matthews, Stuart Martin, Jonny Sweet, Elena Hargreaves.

Despite Babylon opening with the type of shot that Channel Four were famous for when they first started out as a broadcaster, the kind of camera angle that would make the late Mary Whitehouse splutter and cough as if somebody had suggested she should drown her sorrows in a five day bender in Majorca, the pastiche of modern policing by Danny Boyle, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain was at least a look through a polarised lens at the way the public see today’s Police Force.

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