Tag Archives: Marianne Oldham

The Midwich Cuckoos: Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Keeley Hawes, Max Beesley, Aisling Loftus, Ukweli Roach, Lara Rossi, Synnove Karlsen, Hannah Tointon, Rebekah Staton, Mark Dexter, Marianne Oldham, Lewis Reeves, India Amarteifio, Cherrelle Skeete, Amy Cuddon, Samuel West, Dexter Sol Ansell, Laura Doddington, Georgia Thorne, Jade Harrison, Scarlett Leigh, Erin Ainsworth, Billie Gadsdon, Evan Scott, Kaylen Luke, Natalia Harris, Aditi Pothuganti.

The world created by John Wyndham deserves the praise he achieved in his lifetime, and the respect he has posthumously garnered and maintained in the decades since his passing in 1969.

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(687 words, estimated 2:45 mins reading time)

Life In Squares, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Eve Best, Phoebe Fox, Catherine McCormack, Lydia Leonard, Jack Davenport, Rupert Penry-Jones, James Norton, Ed Birch, Christian Brassington, Lucy Boynton, Andrew Havill, Sam Hoare, Eleanor Bron, James Clay, Deborah Findlay, Ron Heaps, Guy Henry, Edmund Kingsley, Anton Lesser, James Northcote, Emily Bruni, Edmund Digby-Jones, Guy Henry, Finn Jones, Adam Palsson, Simon Thomas, Elliot Cowan, Rosie Ede, Jenny Howe, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Marianne Oldham, Simon Thomas, Al Weaver.

 

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(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Helen Anderson, Lisa Bird, Eva Bell, Andrew Bone, Ed Brody, Phil Cheadle, Kit Lessner, Marianne Oldham, Robert Styles, Eleanor Thorn, Rosie Wyatt, Javez Cheeseman, Colby Mulgrew.

Some pieces of literature are perhaps arguably not intended to be envisigned in anything other than cinema’s light, some perhaps are so sensitive that to try and show that singular emotion on the stage is to invite crass remarks and tactlessness in return.

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

The Musketeers, The Accused. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Alexandra Dowling, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy, Hugo Speer, Marc Warren, Phil Rowson, Charlotte Salt, Ed Stoppard, Marianne Oldham, Hara Yannas.

The end game is almost upon the faithful Musketeers. The Queen stands charged with treason and treachery, Aramis is deeply involved in a scandal that could bring civil war to France and Athos has started to see the deceitful Milady De Winter in a different light once more, the combination of all these chemical, potentially nuclear like explosive elements are enough to place the future of the country into unheralded jeopardy on the scale of Agincourt.

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(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Musketeers, The Return. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Hugo Speer, Maimie McCoy, Linzie Cocker, Steve Evets, Alan Rothwell, Barney White, Miles Anderson, Marianne Oldham.

As history has proved time and time again, when the Musketeers are in a fight, it is all for one and one for all. Thankfully in the modern retelling of the classic story and arguably the best in over a hundred and ten years of film and television portrayals, it’s not every episode that has the clichéd signal of derring-do attached to it, the near fatalistic but ultimately triumphant cheer of the Musketeer’s motto shouted across the television as if the viewer would ever forget.

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(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Foyle’s War, Trespass. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Ellie Haddington, Rupert Vansittart,  Richard Lintern,  Tim McMullan, Alex Jennings,  Matilda Zieglar, Alexander Arnold, Michael Begley, Jonny Bingham, Jim Cartwright, Gerry Aziz, Oliver Churm, Hermione Gulliford, John Heffernan, Finbar Lynch, Colin Mace, Ania Marson, Poppy Miller, Josh Moran, Marianne Oldham, William Postlethwaite, Amber Rose Revah, Bianca Rudman, Michael Schaeffer, Michael Ryan, Jeremy Swift, Jonathan Tafler, Sophie Skelton, Jeremy Swift, Yolanda Vazquez, Scott Vickers, Daniel Weyman.

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(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Foyle’s War, High Castle. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Charlie Archer, Rupert Simonian, Nick Cornwall, John Waterhouse, Rupert Vansittart, Ellie Haddington, Tim McMullan, Daniel Weyman, Paul Barnhill, Jeremy Swift, Jamie Winstone, Vincenzo Nicoli, Nigel Lindsay, John Mahoney, Madeline Potter, George Lasha, Mark Chatterton, Hermoine Gulliford, Amanda Lawrence, Joseph Drake, Neil Fitzmaurice, Marianne Oldham, Pip Donaghy, Ollie Hancock, Joe Simpson, Ludger Pistor, Will Keen, Sean Cernow.

Christopher Foyle’s war is never ending and post war Britain must be thankful that there was at least one honest man around who was willing to go up against so called authority in which to get to the absolute truth.

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(575 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)