Tag Archives: Worlds Apart

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Omnibus Two, Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The great appeal of Buffy The Vampire Slayer was not the manner in which took on the darkness, the evil that surrounded her, the matter of the dead coming back to life and making Sunnydale a literal Hell on Earth, it was that this was a young woman with real problems, real issues that affected so many across the Western world and how she overcame them. If Joss Whedon’s heroine had been a lad, a boy slayer, it’s doubtful that the show would have been as successful, except to those whose interest in the Twilight series is more driven by rampaging hormones that plot lines.

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(467 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Omnibus, Volume One. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When Sarah Michelle Geller burst onto the television screens in 1997 as Buffy Summers, the reluctant Vampire Slayer who typified a growing confidence in women being given meaty roles, a whole generation of viewers were hooked. In the days before the genre seemed to become over saturated with young girls fighting off the attentions of vampires who wanted to kill them or romance them, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a breath of fresh air in a field that had become tired and almost mundane, so mundane that even comedy pastiches were as tired and anaemic as a Vampire at a N.H.S. transfusion run on the day when nobody is around to give a pint.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Omnibus, Volume One. Graphic Novel Review. full post

(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Light At The End. Big Finish Audio Drama.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Louise Jameson, Sarah Sutton, Nicola Bryant, Sophie Aldred, India Fisher, Geoffrey Beevers, Carole Ann Ford, William Russell, Frazer Hines, Peter Purves, Maureen O’Brien, Jean Marsh, Anneka Wills, Wendy Padbury, Katy Manning, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Benedict Briggs, Nicholas Briggs, Oliver Hume, John Dorney.

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(830 words, estimated 3:19 mins reading time)

Jago & Litefoot: Chronoclasm. Series Three, Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Louise Jameson, Conrad Asquith, Lisa Bowerman, Philip Bretherton, Duncan Wisbey, Joanna Munro, Wendy Padbury.

Some crimes, especially the ones involving the laws of time are either caused by a megalomaniac hell bent on destruction of a certain race of people or species or due to greed, the powerful and sickening so called aphrodisiac that prays on the weak and gluttonous. Sometimes these two overlap and then the devastation is even harder to bear. Occasionally though the reason is a lot more pure and it is just the way it was devised and carried out that makes the plan hard to stomach. Such is Elliot Payne’s reason to change time, to end his own misery and loss. It doesn’t make it right but it is a lot more understandable that selling out and destroying an entire species for a pot of gold.

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

Aliens Vs Predator, Volume 1 Omnibus. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There will be those who remember sitting and waiting with varying degrees of patience for their favourite comic book title, as they seemed to be called once upon a time, to come out and then devoured greedily with relish as their favourite hero or collection of champions led the way through 40 or so pages of agonising self-worth and the inevitable fight, perhaps to the death.

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(585 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: 1963: Fanfare For The Commen Men. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish 178.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Mitch Benn, Andrew Knott, David Dobson, Ryan Sampson, Alison Thea- Skot, Jonty Stephens, Barnaby Edwards.

1963 will be remembered for many things, many moments in time which defined how the following 50 years has been looked upon, sometimes with great fondness, sometimes with the pit in the stomach which leaves those living today feeling sick and morally outraged that it was allowed to happen.

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(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Starlight Robbery, Audio Drama Review, Big Finish 176.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Tracey Childs, Christian Edwards, Stuart Milligan, Dan Starkey, Jo Woodcock, Lizzie Roper.

There are just so many excellent elements to Starlight Robbery that it is surely impossible to dislike. Aside from the sublime writing of Matt Fitton, who makes a welcome return after a few months away, you have the erstwhile Elizabeth Klein, portrayed as usual with great assurance and ease by Tracey Childs, the sublime Stuart Milligan reprising his role as Garundel and the inclusion of the great Dan Starkey playing every Sontaran under the sun, what more could you ever want in an audio C.D.?

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(635 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Jago And Litefoot: The Ruthven Inheritance, Series Two. Big Finish Audio Play.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, David Collings, Simon Williams, Duncan Wisbey, Lisa Bowerman, Conrad Asquith, Alex Mallinson.

A long laid down plot in which to ensnare our intrepid investigators, the dark arts and foul machinations of vampire Gabriel Sanders and the bigotry of Victorian standards all play a part in the final episode of Jago and Litefoot series two with Andy Lane’s tale The Ruthven Inheritance.

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(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Jago And Litefoot, The Necropolis Express. Series Two, Big Finish Audio Play.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Lisa Bowerman, Vernon Dobtchef, David Collings, Alex Mallinson.

One of the most powerful images of pre-20th Century medical advancement is that of the body-snatcher, the ghoulish purveyors of the recently deceased and comfortable in their new home six feet underground to the medical profession, especially those of impoverished students for research purposes has never been looked at favourably or with rose tinted eyes. What it has done though has given cinema and audio drama the great lease of life in which to scare audience’s silly.

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

Sherlock Holmes: The Death And Life. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Roger Llewellyn.

James Moriarty has long been the associated with being the ultimate nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, two sides of a coin, the yin and yang, one a force for peace, the other, the dark blackened contamination that spread its evil and chaos throughout London. Moriarty never showed his full hand until the two men fought at Reichenbach Falls and for a while the avid readers of the great detective’s work and the money men of the Strand magazine felt the shortfall in quality and income.

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