Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: James McArdle, Emun Elliott, Sarah Greene, Stephen Moyer, Tamsin Grieg, Eliza Bennett, John Dagleish, Paul Kaye, Clea Martin, Peter Ferdinando, Robbie Gee, Nicholas Nunn, Lex Shrapnel, Barry Castagnola, Stanley Morgan, Nitin Ganatra, David Kennedy, Cally Lawrence, Michael Obiora, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Clare Burt, Megan Morgan, Hannah van der Westhuysen, Nicola Wright, Ralph Brown, Andy Eadie, Javier Ramos.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Naomi Harris, Emily Watson, Paddy Considine, Mark Lewis Jones, John Dagleish, Jessie Ross, Richard Bremmer, Freya Allan, Borje Lundberg, Paul Kaye, Nico Parker.
British Folk Horror or the gothic supernatural doesn’t perhaps get the respect it deserves in the 21st Century, few writers will embrace it, and it appears even less people wish to dip their toe into the murky, almost pitch black seas to which the mirroring and observances of the closed community has thrived unabated by the pressures of time, or indeed the interference of the outside world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Renee Zellwegar, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Gemma-Leah Deveraux, Michael Gambon, Bella Ramsey, Andy Nyman, Gaia Weiss, Philippe Spall, Fenella Woolgar, Royce Pierreson, Phil Dunster, Darci Shaw, Diana Alexandra Pocol, John Dagleish, Natasha Powell, Lucy Russell, Tom Durant Pritchard, Tim Ahern.
Somewhere over the rainbow remains a memory of a star, an icon whose greatest screen role defined the age, of childhood and the abuse of power reigned over them by studios and their owners, whose character in the Wizard of Oz became a by word for the acceptance of others, and to whom a voice was given that few have been able to touch since.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Lydia Wilson, John Dagleish, Kathryn Wilder, Sam Ellis, Alex MacQueen, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Margaret Wheeler, Gerard Horan, Doug Colling, Lolita Chacrabarti, Philip Dunster, Freya Durkan, Flora Easton, Matt Jessup, Sabi Perez, Michael Rouse, Kate Tydman.
It is a beautiful story and one that will break the heart of anyone with half a romantic soul in their body and yet like all beautiful whispers that we seek to take advantage of by seemingly learning something of the poet’s soul, fiction, that forgiving beast of bounty, leads to a comedy of inaccuracies and yet we still pursue it as if it were a fair maiden covered in buttercup petals or a rueful youth displaying muscles and brawn on the beach.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Mark Gatiss, Oliver Ford Davies, Ronke Adekoluejo, Adrian Scarborough, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ken Nwosu, John Dagleish, Amanda Lawrence, Katy Carmichael, Orton O’ Brien, Tristan Sturrock, Jasmine-Simone Charles, Paul Chahidi, Simon Farnaby, Mackenzie Crook, Jim Cummings, Brad Garrett, Nick Mohammed, Peter Capaldi, Sophie Okonedo, Sara Sheen, Toby Jones.
It is, with hindsight, easy to suggest that humanity in the 20th Century lost its way, that we as a collected species lost our wonder and our innocence to a new way of thinking, a rational that arguably had its genesis in the self-imposed, stiff upper lipped facade philosophy created by the Victorians and to which even now has eaten away at our ability to forget the dreams we had as children and the wondrous stories we could weave.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Sheridan Smith, Siobhan Finneran, Gemma Whelan, Sian Brooke, John Dagleish, Dean Andrews, Steve Oram, Gail Kemp, William Hunt, Cody Ryan, Sally Carr, Faye McKeever, Tom Hanson, Erin Shanagher, Darren Connolly, Cathy Breeze, David Zezulka, Charlotte Mills, David Peel, Kirsty Armstrong, Macy Shackleton, Martin Savage, Steve Garti, Rebecca Manley, Paul Opacic.
It was a crime that horrified Britain, a moment in the nation’s psyche that leaves a scar, not because of loss of life but one in which loss of self respect and hope became the headline news.