Tag Archives: Martin McCann

Blue Lights: Series Two Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Nathan Braniff, Sian Brooke, Katherine Delvin, Martin McCann, Frankie McCafferty, Andi Osho, Hannah McClean, Joanne Crawford, Jonathan Harden, Andrea Irvine, Desmond Eastwood, Abigail McGibbon, Dearbháille McKinney, Seamus O’Hara, Craig McGinlay, Alfie Lawless, Matthew Forsythe, Chris Corrigan, Derek Thompson, Alfie Lawless, Paddy Jenkins.

We consider ourselves at the very least to be policed by consent, it is almost a statement of agreed terms and boundaries, which sometimes overlaps, sometimes moved by one faction, either in rebellion or by government insistence, but one to which for the most part the sight of Blue Lights flashing can be a comfort when we have been wronged, when another decides to not only blur the lines between criminal acts but to actively destroy your safety by setting fire to every law known.

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(541 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Blue Lights. (2023). Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Sian Brooke, Martin McCann, Richard Dormer, John Lynch, Joanne Crawford, Jonathan Harden, Katherine Devlin, Nathan Braniff, Dane Whyte O’Hara, Hannah McClean, Andi Osho, Gerard Jordan, Valene Kane, Michael Shea, Nabil Elouahabi, Matt Carver, Matthew Forsythe, Abigail McGibbon, Clare Gray, Stefan Boehm, Isaac Heslip, Art Campion, Desmond Eastwood, Andrea Irvine, Paddy Jenkins, Frankie McCafferty, Orla Graham, Aoibheann McCann, Charlie Maher, Neil Keery, Shane McCaffrey, Antoinette Morelli, Maria Quinn, Packy Lee, Declan Lawn, Brian Milligan, Helena Bereen, Louise Parker, Bernadette Brown, Dearbhalle McKinny, Mary Moulds, Michael Patrick.

Blue Lights. (2023). Television Series Review. full post

(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Temple. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Mark Strong, Daniel Mays, Carice van Houten, Catherine McCormack, Tobi King Bakare, Lily Newmark, Chloe Pirrie, Ryan McKen, Sienna Kelly, Clare Rushbrook, Sam Hazeldine, Wunmi Mosaku, Craig Parkinson, Marion Bailey, Hiten Patel, Anamaria Marinca, Carolina Main, Theo Solomon, Donald Sumpter, Kate Dickie, Turlough Convery, Rosy Nenjamin, Emma Carter, Naomi Cooper-Davis, Gabriel Gambetta, Jordan Long, Martin McCann, Mark Bazeley, Jo Hartley, Jan Bijvoet, Layo-Christina Akinlude, Adeyinka Akinrinade, Charles Armstrong, Josh Barrow, Daniel Betts, Cornelius Booth.

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

The Informer. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Ana de Armas, Rosamund Pike, Joel Kinnaman, Clive Owen, Common, Ruth Bradley, Arturo Castro, Sam Spruell, Nasir Jama, Martin McCann, Jenna Willis, Eugene Lipinski, Edwin De La Renta, Karma Meyer, Alex Ziwak, Scott Anderson, Charles Mnene, Miroslaw Haniszewski, Victor Yarbrough, Alphonso Austin, Peter Coe, Lena Kaminsky, Daniel Duru.

Doing the right thing can quite often get you into more trouble than those who sit back and play hard and fast with regulations and common decency; no matter what the situation and how you may have saved a certain event from blowing out of all control, potentially saving lives in the process, there will always be those that will look down upon you and plot their revenge on your name and character.

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(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Death And Nightingales. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Matthew Rhys, Ann Skelly, Jamie Dornan, Valene Kane, Charlene McKenna, Martin McCann, Sean McGinley, Michael Smiley, Francis Magee, Des McAleer, Ciaran Flynn, Aoibheann Mullan, Paul Kennedy, Eugene O’Hare, Pip Torrens, Conor MacNeill, Frankie McCafferty.

Against the backdrop of the fight for radical Irish independence from Britain in the 19th Century, a story of corruption, betrayal and tragedy is neatly interwoven through a 24 hour period in the life of Beth Winters, a condensed down reflection of what was happening across the Irish Sea, the pride of individuality and freedom from what was arguably seen as a distant master, one who made all the rules but wanted to keep the people in chains, if not physically, then at least metaphorically.

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(422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

X+Y, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Jo Yang, Martin McCann, Jake Davies, Alex Lawther, Alexa Davies, Orion Lee, Edward Baker Close, Percelle Ascott.

To be able to watch a film that deals with something completely different, the soul not only sings, it positively chirps with delight.

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(623 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

’71, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jack O’ Connell, Paul Anderson, Sam Reid, Seam Harris, Charlie Murphy, Sam Hazeldine, Killian Scott, Richard Dormer, Barry Keoghan, David Wilmot, Martin McCann, Corey McKinley, Valene Kane, Paul Popplewell, Amy Molloy, Joshua Hill, Eric Campbell, Ben Peel, Jack Lowden, Nicola-Jayne Wells, Lee Bolton, Babou Casey, Liam McMahon, Denise Gough, Paul Bergquist, Dawn Bradfield.

In any war there are always two sides to the tale. Both sides normally deserve airing, with certain objections to history and they deserve to be told with the greatest of respect and humility; a chance for an understanding to be reached before the apportioning of blame, retribution and justice can be sought.

’71, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Ripper Street, Dynamite And A Woman. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, Clive Russell, David Wilmot, Damien Molony, James Wilby, Leanne Best, Stanley Townsend, Charley Murphy, Martin McCann, Michael Marcus, Guy Williams, Steve Gunn, Frank Melia.

Dynamite and a Woman arguably the two most explosive elements in Victorian London, one in which caused devastation, the other which broke hearts and in which both figured predominantly in the latest case to fall to Detective Inspector Reid to solve; both being surrounded by the new instrument in London, electricity.

Ripper Street, Dynamite And A Woman. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

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