Tag Archives: Steven Mackintosh

The Lovecraft Investigations: The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Barnaby Kay, Jana Carpenter, Kyle Soller, Steven Mackintosh, Mark Bazeley, Samuel Barnett, Nicola Walker, Karla Crome, Jennifer Armour, Ferdinand Kingsley, David Calder, Walles Hamonde, Michael Maloney, Phoebe Fox.

One of the most interesting and intense dramas to have found its way to the listener’s appreciation of late is the adaption of H.P. Lovecraft’s dark and frequently disturbing tales that were set in and around his native New England. Julian Simpson’s superb reading and amendments to bring it to a more British viewpoint and understanding of how such a sense of enormity and mystery could begin and take hold in the country.

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

Rocketman. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Taron Egerton, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jamie Bell, Harriet Walter, Tate Donovan, Gemma Jones, Charlie Rowe, Jimmy Vee, Steven Mackintosh, Matthew Illesley, Kit Connor, Ophelia Loveibond, Celinde Schoenmaker, Stephen Graham, Rachel Muldoon.

We are all the heroes of our own story, that much is universally acknowledged, we may flatter to deceive ourselves, we embellish certain parts, omit the painful if possible and yet despite all this we might also think of our existence in stark black and white, the villain, the destroyer of dreams and the devil in everybody else’s detail. It is human nature to see ourselves as both the dashing hero and the anarchic tornado which sweeps through the lives of others, pulling the ground that is beneath their feet and tossing them aside when the mood suits us.

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(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

The Game, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Hughes, Jonathan Aris, Brian Cox, Victoria Hamilton, Shaun Dooley, Paul Ritter, Chloe Pirrie, Rachel Stirling, Zana Marjanovic, Yevgeni Sitokhin, Judy Parfitt, Marcel Lures, Tim Bentinck, Gemma Chan, Jay Simpson, Anton Lesser, Craig Conway, Scott Handy, Richard McCabe, Alistair Petrie, Steven Mackintosh.

 

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

The Thirteenth Tale, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Olivia Coleman, Vanessa Redgrave, Emily Beecham, Antonia Clarke, Alexandra Roach, Steven Mackintosh, Tom Goodman-Hill, Jacqueline Davis, Lizzie Hopley, Michael Jibson, Adam Long, Madeleine Power, Robert Pugh, Sophie Turner, Gordon Winter.

There are ghost stories and then there are those that play that little bit extra on the mind. They seep through the sub-conscious and get into your dreams during the night and play havoc with your waking hours. Even when the ghost is revealed, it still gets in to your head.

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(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Kick Ass 2, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jim Carrey, Clark Duke, Olga Kurkulina, Lindy Booth, John Leguizamo, Iain Glen, Morris Chestnut, Garrett M. Brown, Claudia Lee, Augustus Prew, Donald Faison, Danial Kaluuya, Tom Wu, Andy Nyman, Steven Mackintosh, Monica Dolan, Benedict Wong.

Sequels are almost inevitable, especially when the first film outing was seen as something new and exciting to grab the attention of those pleasantly surprised by what they see on the big screen. Sometimes though it may be better to leave the story where it ended, with the credits rolling and the audience giving plaudits. The news that Star Wars is to have yet another follow-on and with no conclusion in sight is one such film franchise, the other unfortunately is perhaps Kick-Ass 2.

Kick Ass 2, Film Review. full post

(544 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)