This Week on the DCMG Websites


Here's a round up of all the new articles this week on The DreamCage and AlbieMedia websites...

Monday 24th June

On The DreamCage

Steve Taylor-Bryant slips through the Warriors’ Gate as he reviews an essay on its inception and journey to the screen as part of Doctor Who’s 18th season, thanks to The Black Archive #31 written by Frank Collins and published by Obverse Books...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/book-black-archive-31-warriors-gate.html

"Think Gangs of New York but set in Napoleonic France and you have the gist of The Emperor of Paris."

Susan Omand watched the film at Edinburgh International Film Festival...


https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/film-emperor-of-paris.html


Tuesday 25th June

On The DreamCage

"There is a lot to take in but if you are willing the content is not as hard going as it could seem on the surface."

Steve Taylor-Bryant watched Justine at Edinburgh International Film Festival...


https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/film-justine.html

The film's tagline says "Playtime is over" so how much fun did Jon Britton have watching the latest remake of Child’s Play...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/film-childs-play.html

On AlbieMedia

Susan Omand indulges her love of film soundtracks and listens to some of the music for AD Lane's upcoming film Invasion of the Not Quite Dead with The "Not Quite" Original Motion Picture Film Score, composed and performed by Daniel White...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/06/review-invasion-of-not-quite-dead.html


Wednesday 26th June

On The DreamCage

Steve Taylor-Bryant has given himself the reading challenge of reading every full length novel written by Brad Meltzer. This week he stands before The First Counsel...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/book-project-meltzer-first-counsel.html

"Studio Ponoc has taken up the mantle left by the closing down of Studio Ghibli in 2014."

Susan Omand found some anime at Edinburgh International Film Festival and watched Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre...


https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/animation-modest-heroes-ponoc-short.html



Thursday 27th June

On The DreamCage

"It’s a Doctor Who story told from the point of view of the Doctor"

Tony Cross read Scratchman by Tom Baker...


https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/book-doctor-who-scratchman.html

On AlbieMedia

"Were it not for this record, would anyone have ever heard of them?"

For this week's #SotD79, Jimmy Hunter gets The Knack of My Sharona...


https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/06/sotd79-knack.html

"I’m not sure there is a better opening to an album"

Thirty years on from release, Steve Taylor-Bryant remembers The Real Thing by Faith No More...


https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/06/turn-that-noise-down-faith-no-more.html



Friday 28th June

On The DreamCage

On recently at Edinburgh International Film Festival and on general release in (most) cinemas, our own historical Scot, Susan Omand, watched Robert the Bruce...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/film-robert-bruce.html

They were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the Was This Always Weird podcast guys tackled the intentional weirdness that was Terry Gilliam's film Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/podcast-was-this-always-weird-fear.html

On AlbieMedia

Premiering this week at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Susan Omand watched Paul Duane's documentary about artist Bill Drummond, Best Before Death...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/06/review-best-before-death.html


Saturday 29th June

On The DreamCage

"Oh who am I kidding? This is sexy addictive crack TV!"

Steve Taylor-Bryant discovers How to Get Away With Murder...


https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/watching-detectives-how-to-get-away.html

Our own deshi Kraig Taylor-Bryant waxes on and off about the Karate Kid spin-off series Cobra Kai on YouTube Premium...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/06/tv-cobra-kai.html



Find this week's contributors on Twitter

@JimJamGin

@STBwrites
@OmandOriginal
@Lokster71
@Kraigandhismac
Jon Britton

and find our Podcasting partners @WasThisAlways