Tag Archives: John Hannah

The Last Of Us. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv, Lamar Johnson, Melanie Lynskey, Nico Parker, Merie Dandridge, Keivonn Woodard, Jeffrey Pierce, John Getz, Gabriel Luna, Samuel Hoeksema, Olivier Ross-Parent. Scott Shepherd, Storm Reid, Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Nick Offerman, Rutina Wesley, John Hannah, Terry Chen, Christine Hakim, Murray Bartlett, Ari Rombough, Yayu A.W. Unro, Graham Greene, Sonia Maria Chirila, Josh Brener, Ruby Lybbert, Sharon Crandall, Christopher Heyerdahl, Nelson Leis, Elaine Miles.

Never has the genre of the zombie apocalypse ever been so in tune with major environmental concerns as the television adaptation of The Last Of Us has managed to portray.

The Last Of Us. Television Series Review. full post

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

Roald And Beatrix: The Tale Of The Curious Mouse. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Dawn French, Harry Tayler, Nina Sosanya, John Hannah, Jessica Hynes, Alison Steadman, Bill Bailey, Nick Mohammed, Rob Brydon, Mollie Holder, Reegan Davies, Rhys Parry Jones, Kevin Bishop, Kimberley Nixon.

It doesn’t matter when it happens, or perhaps even how, but to meet the one person outside of your family to whom your life from that moment is shaped by even the barest, smallest conversation, is a tale to which to inspire others.

Roald And Beatrix: The Tale Of The Curious Mouse. Television Review. full post

(563 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

The Victim. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 9/10

Cast: Kelly Macdonald, James Harkness, John Hannah, Chloe Pirrie, Ramon Tikaram, Jamie Sives, Joanne Thomson, Pooky Quesnel, John Scougall, Cal MacAninch, Alison McKenzie, Nicholas Nunn, Karla Crome, Isis Hainsworth, Georgie Glen, Seylan Baxter, David Goodall, Zak Leyni, Caron Rae Brand.

We can never truly understand what goes through the mind of a murderer, for some it is a moment of insanity in which they cannot explain the event or their feelings towards the act in any manner that makes sense to the system or the potential psychiatrist who wishes to probe into the complexity of the situation; for others it is a marker, of dominance, of power, of holding a life in the grip of their hands and understanding full well the implications of their actions, and the possible thrill they get as they watch from a close enough distance their act being investigated.

The Victim. Television Review. full post

(593 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

The Titanic Orchestra, Theatre Review. Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ivan Barnev, Stuart Crowther, John Hannah, Heidi Niemi, Jonathan Rhodes.

The strains of The Last Waltz, perhaps the loneliness of Nearer To My God Than Thee or the finality of Autumn should with illusion be observed and be heard as the lives of four alcoholic tramps living the same existence day in, day out on the railways is suddenly interrupted by the appearance of another, a man who can see their lives and the fantasy of humanity’s deception that lives in them all

The Titanic Orchestra, Theatre Review. Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Atlantis: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 1/10

Cast: Mark Addy, Jack Donnelly, Robert Emms, Aiysha Hart, Sarah Parish, Jemima Roper, Juliet Stevenson, Amy Manson, Ken Bones, Peter De Jersey, Lorcan Cranitch, Vincent Regan, Robert Lindsay, Joseph Timms, John Hannah, Robert Pugh, Ronald Pickup, Philip Correia, Anya Taylor-Joy.

The surprise was not that Atlantis was cancelled but the fact that it was made at all.

In one of the rare mistakes of drama production by the B.B.C., Atlantis finally washed up on the shores of discontent and died a long lingering death in a series that was split in two. Much heralded as a winter replacement for Doctor Who, the second series of the fantasy based drama descended to the point where arguably viewers were watching to see how bad it could actually become.

Atlantis: Series Two. Television Review. full post

(579 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Atlantis. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10

Cast: Jack Donnelly, Mark Addy, Robert Emms, Jemima Rooper, Sarah Parish, Juliet Stevenson, Aiysha Hart, Alexander Siddig, John Hannah, Oliver Walker, Hannah Arterton, Ken Bones, Joe Dixon.

There is something magical about Greek and Roman mythology; it has consistently been a source of epic tales and for the vast majority of the stories that have survived the spectre of time, they are thrilling, exciting and serve to be poignant many millennia after they first appeared.

Atlantis. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)