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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Ching, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, Rebecca Romijn, Paul Wesley, Adrian Holmes, Carol Kane, Melanie Scrofano, Dan Jeannotte, Bruce Horak, Mia Kirschner, Gia Sandhu, Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero, Jerry O’ Connell, Greg Byrk, Clint Howard, Martin Quinn.

To view a series with the foreknowledge of what may happen to many of the characters in the future is one that in most circumstances would arguably lead to viewer apathy, the storyline hoped for always standing in the shadows of the decline and death of a main player just so that they can feel the emotion of loss and excitement.

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

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Series One Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, Bruce Horak, Rebecca Romijn, Adrian Holmes, Dan Jeannotte, Gia Sandhu, Melanie Scrofano, Samantha Smith, Lindy Booth, Ian Ho, Huse Madhavji, Jesse James Keitel, Paul Wesley.

Strange New Worlds, a misfortune that we today are stuck in between two different periods of exploration and that we have lost the capability to be curious and respectful of cultures vastly different to ours; and it is to this era in which we inhabit that has flexed our need to change the world we live in, to push discovery further up the social agenda.

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

The Silencing. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis, Zahn McClarnon, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Lisa Cromerty, Leland Assinewai, Kayla Dumont, Shaun Smyth, Jason Jazrawy, Brielle Robillard, Melanie Scrofano, Charlotte Lindsay Marron, Patrick Garrow, Mark Charles Cowling, Heather Stevenson, Tiahra Tulloch, Danielle Ryan, Caleb Ellsworth-Clark, Josh Cruddas. 

We have learned through hundreds of years of written storytelling, and thousands of years of oral narrative, that the woods and forests, whilst beautiful to look at, hold many secrets, untold dangers, and creatures that hunt for the sheer exhilaration of the chase, and to feed on those unsuspecting souls who pay no heed to the warnings, or are clouded by the romanticism that has filled their heads of the beauty in the trees.

The Silencing. Film Review. full post

(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)