Tag Archives: Samantha Spiro

Midsomer Murders: For Death Prepare. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Alexander Hanson, Clive Rowe, Kevin Whately, Samantha Spiro, Shobna Gulati, Jenna Russell, Jane Bertish, David Rubin, Dylan Wood, Tessa Wong, Matthew Bose, Ben Godard.

“A policeman’s lot is not a happy one…”

No matter how hard people within certain professions try, what they see whilst they are holding communities together, stopping cities from becoming zones overrun by fear, hate, damnation, they can never truly see the sparkle of a day without something reminding them that underneath it all the spectre of humanity’s more base instincts will rise to the surface and threaten to pour oil over small fires burning, will make any compulsion to sing one that becomes a mumble of forgotten promises in front of the paying audience.

Midsomer Murders: For Death Prepare. Television Review. full post

(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Beyond Paradise. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kris Marshall, Sally Breton, Zahra Ahmadi, Dylan Llewellyn, Felicity Montague, Barbara Flynn, Jamie Bamber, Jade Harrison, Annette Badland, Ingrid Oliver, Phil Daniels, Monserat Lombard, Ruth Madoc, Pooky Quesnel, Marcia Warren, Samantha Spiro, Don Warrington, Ralf Little, Shantol Jackson, Tahj Miles, Spencer Jones.

“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”

Beyond Paradise. Television Series Review. full post

(656 words, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

Not Going Out. Series 12. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Breton, Hugh Dennis, Abigail Cruttenden, Deborah Grant, Geoffrey Whitehead, Tony Gardner, Colin McFarlane, Samantha Spiro, Joselyn Jee Esien, Katie Redford, Jolyon Coy, Gwyneth Powell, Joe Wilkinson, Stephanie Langton, Anil Desai, Max Pattison, Francesca Newman, Finley Southby, Max Willis, Rich Keeble.

It may be a huge claim, but few have scaled such a height in British television comedy that they can be compared so favourably to the legendary, and beloved Tony Hancock.

Not Going Out. Series 12. Television Review. full post

(580 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Ragdoll. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Thalissa Teixeira, Lucy Hale, Michael Smiley, Sam Troughton, Angus Wright, Samantha Spiro, Phil Davies, Natasha Little, Clive Mendus, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Perry Jaques, Amita Dhiri, Douggie McMeekin, James Barriscale, James Tarpey, Robin Weaver, Camilla Beeput, Tim McDonnell, Ava Masters, Oriana Charles, Cannon Hay, Eric Raymond Lim, Paul McEwan, Dave Hart, Peter Bottley.

The sense of the extraordinary comes from out of nowhere and hits you where you least expect it.

Ragdoll. Television Review. full post

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

Ridley Road. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Agnes O’Casey, Rory Kinnear, Eddie Marsan, Tom Varey, Rita Tushingham, Allan Corduner, Will Keen, Tracy Ann Oberman, Gabriel Akuwudike, Tamzin Outhwaite, James Craze, Danny Hatchard, Hannah Traylen, Samantha Spiro, Julia Krynke, Danny Sykes, Henry Wilton-Hunt, Hannah Onslow, Nigel Betts, Preston Nyman, Alastair Michael, Romane Portail, Stephen Hogan, Liza Sadovy, Ethan Moorhouse.

Ridley Road. Television Review. full post

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

Film Review. Horrible Histories: The Movie-Rotten Romans.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Sebastian Croft, Emilia Jones, Nick Frost, Craig Roberts, Kate Nash, Kim Cattrall, Derek Jacobi, Rupert Graves, Warwick Davis, Alexander Armstrong, Kevin Bishop, Alex MacQueen, Lee Mack, Chris Addison, Ella Smith, Sanjeev Bhasker, Tony Way, Lucy Montgomery, Tony Gardner, Ben Ashenden, Samantha Spiro, Katy Wix.

Film Review. Horrible Histories: The Movie-Rotten Romans. full post

(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Agatha And The Art Of Murder. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ruth Bradley, Ralph Ineson, Tim McInnerny, Blake Harrison, Pippa Haywood, Michael McElhatton, Bebe Cave, Brian McCardie, Dean Andrews, Samantha Spiro, Stacha Hicks, Liam McMahon, Joshua Silver, Luke Pierre, Seamus O’ Hare, Clare McMahon, Amelia Dell, Derek Halligan, Richard Doubleday.

Nobody truly disappears without a reason, whether it is in the spirit of foul play, a release from the pressure of life, or in the act of rage fuelled revenge, people don’t vanish from public life unless there is a motive lurking under the soil of the person’s existence in which leads to the art of murder being employed.

Agatha And The Art Of Murder. Television Review. full post

(630 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Doctor Falls. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Michelle Gomez, John Simm, Briana Shann, Rosie Boore, Samantha Spiro, Simon Coombs, Stephanie Hyam, David Bradley.

“Without hope, without witness, without reward…” except for fan and casual viewer of Doctor Who alike, The Doctor Falls is an episode that gives that last part of the speech cause to contradict itself, with reward, the great return of a series that always seems under attack from a section of society that doesn’t know how to handle well made science fiction without denigrating it to the base offence, that somehow by striking a cord with its fans it somehow means it has to be assaulted and confronted on all sides.

Doctor Who: The Doctor Falls. Television Review. full post

(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Babs, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Samantha Spiro, Nick Moran, Leanne Best, Jamie Winstone, Luke Allen-Gale, Zoe Wanamaker, Robin Sebastian, Daniel Ben Zenou, Toby Wharton, Nicholas Asbury Jerry-Jane Peers, Alex Macqueen, Ross green, Rob Hughes, Tom Forbes, Joe Stilgoe, Julia Ford, Rob Compton, Charlie Archer, Honor Kneafsey, Jonathan Rhodes, Barbara Windsor.

Babs, Television Review. full post

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