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Fringe: Series 1-5. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Michael Cerveris, Kirk Acevedo, Seth Gabel, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald, Marl Valley, Michael Kopsa, Lily Pilblad, Ari Graynor, Eugene Lipinski, Jared Harris, Sebastian Roche, Shaun Smyth, Kevin Corrigan, Georgina Haig, Meghan Markle.

Cult Science-Fiction television is arguably, in its own way, far more satisfying a pastime in which to get the brain moving and stirring the what-if of imagination than by being sucked into the daily routine of gameshows, celebrity gossip and the intrigue of the soap opera digest.

Fringe: Series 1-5. Television Review. full post

(642 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

Becky. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Robert Maillet, Amanda Brugel, Isaiah Rockcliffe, Ryan McDonald, James McDougall, Leslie Adlam, Justin Holiday, Mike Dara, Charles Boyland, Bryan Edwards, Andrew Siwik, Chandra Michaels, Gage Graham-Arbuthnot, John D. Hickman, Markus Radan, Kaleb Young, Ric Garcia.

Is the psychopath or the killer created or are they born? The psychoanalysts’ nightmare scenario is that they cannot distinguish between the states of mind that either drive someone to kill based on the actions they encountered or been beaten by, or whether it is truly, disturbingly, inherent in the human subconscious to the point where any youth can mask such feelings of behaviour by society putting it down to associated teenage angst and torment.

Becky. Film Review. full post

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