Tag Archives: Lorraine Ashbourne

Sherwood. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Morrisey, Lorraine Ashbourne, Monica Dolan, Robert Lindsey, Michael Balogun, Philip Jackson, Perry Jackson, Lesley Manville, Stephen Dillane, Christine Bottomley, Adam Hugill. Bill Jones, Robert Emms, Aisling Loftus, Jordan Myrie, Ria Zmitrowicw, Bethany Asher, Oliver Huntingdon, Conor Deane, David Harewood, Sharlene Whyte, Jennifer Hennessy, Charles Dale, Tyrese Eaton-Dyce.

Some wounds run too deep to allow them time to heal in just a generation, the anguish, the sense of betrayal, the sense of unfaithfulness in the family, in the community is a powerful reminder of hate that creeps into the blood when loyalties and ideologies force themselves into that which once bound all.

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

After The Flood. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Sophie Rundle, Matt Stokoe, Jonas Armstrong, Lorraine Ashbourne, Philip Glenister, Daniel Betts, Arthur McBain, Tripti Tripuraneni, Jaqueline Boatswain, James Quinn, Heider Ali, Maui Connock, Anita Adam Gabey, Nicholas Gleaves, Steve Cooper, Jeanette Percival, George Bukhari, Ray Castleton, Sara Beasley, Jake Whitehurst.

The build-up in tension that comes from a promise of a modern-day disaster requires to always be delivered. Failure to underline and provide the ending to which many have expected, replacing it with a noting more than a wishy-washy explanation is detrimental to the time and care placed before the viewer, and leaves a taste in the mouth that is overall, unforgiveable.

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(377 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

I Hate Susie Too. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Billie Piper, Daniel Ings, Leila Farzad, Matthew Jordan-Caws, Lorraine Ashbourne, Phil Daniels, Douglas Hodge, Blake Harrison, Elle Piper, Katy Trafford, Bessie Carter, Layton Williams, Omari Douglas, Reza Diako, Gary Lamont, Jolyon Coy, Ayesha Antoine, Angela Sant’Albano, Yasser Zadeh, Tobi Ejirele, Emmanuel Kome, Fred Fergus, Anastasia Jille, Peter Caulfield, Jude Mack, Elijah W Harris, Bea Svistunenko, Craig McCulloch, Lucy Martin, Sandra Huggett, Ambika Mod.

It is perhaps to be thankful that for the vast majority of us, someone like Suzie Pickles is but a figure to whom we might only come across when we are confronted with when they make a bee line to inject concern and chaos into our lives.

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

I Hate Suzie. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Billie Piper, Leila Farzad, Daniel Ings, Matthew Jordan-Caws, Nathaniel Martello-White, Emma Smithin, Molly Jackson-Shaw, Chelsea Edge, Dexter Fletcher, Amanda Abbington, Ryan Gage, Phil Daniels, Lorraine Ashbourne.

Regardless of whether you are considered a celebrity or someone who just happens to be chosen at random to be humiliated, the sense of power that a malevolent hacker can have over your most intimate moments in life is enough to make you consider removing yourself from the modern day rack which is the internet, completely.

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

Maigret: Maigret In Montmartre. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Shaun Dingwall, Lucy Cohu, Lorraine Ashbourne, Cassie Clare, Sebastian De Souza, Simon Gregor, Mark Heap, Douglas Hodge, Sara Kestelman, Nike Kurta, Colin Mace, Gyula Mesterhazy, Adrian Scarborough, Hugh Simon, Nicola Sloane, Leo Starr, Olivia Vinall, Tilly Vosburgh, Jane Wood.

There may be murders in the Rue Morgue but then Paris, under the watchful eye of renowned Detective Maigret has always had its share of acts of homicide in which to fear the mist that rises off the Seine and through the artistic expression of Europe’s most romantic city. It is love that spurs on more murders than hate so it seems in detective fiction and in Maigret in Montmartre, that love is heightened, corrupted and put to the test of what even Jules Maigret can possibly solve.

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(521 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

A Street Cat Named Bob, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Luke Treadaway, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanna Froggatt, Anthony Head, Beth Goddard, Darren Evans, Caroline Goodall, Ruth Sheen, Nina Wadia, Franc Ashman, Lorraine Ashbourne, Mark Behan, Daniel Fearn, Adam Riches, Nadine Marshall, John Henshaw.

It is a quirk that makes the British film industry such a magnificent beast at times, for every stunning spectacular that crowds the screen with its location, its effortless pandemonium like glee in producing stunt after stunt and the facility to host the filming of the big box office smash, that occasionally comes a film in which typifies the true spirit of film making, one that does not go down the route enjoyed by the likes of the insipid and distasteful, but is instead a story, a piece of living memory that could happen to any of us.

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

New Tricks: The Crazy Gang. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tamzin Outhwaite, Larry Lamb, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Anthony Calf, Geraldine Somerville, Meera Syal, Lorraine Ashbourne, Peter Bramhill, Zara White, Sarah-Jane Potts.

It is perhaps a shame that the biggest case that U.C.O.S. will never have will be finding out the assailant at B.B.C. who decided that New Tricks had run its course and left to linger a death on a Tuesday night with a knife in its back that was unbecoming of such a widely appreciated and at times un-missable television.

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(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)