This Week on the DCMG Websites


Here's a round up of all the new articles this week, including our #MoonDay celebrations, on The DreamCage and AlbieMedia websites...

Monday 15th July

 On The DreamCage

 Steve Taylor-Bryant gets to grips with some more crime drama courtesy of Titan Books new collection of short stories edited by Maxim Jakubowski… 

 https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/book-invisible-blood.html


" I have no shame or hesitation in saying it may well be one of my favourite films of all time."

Jon Britton watched the 4K restoration of the classic Oldboy before it hits select cinemas next month courtesy of Arrow Films...

 https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/film-oldboy.html
Tuesday 16th July

On The DreamCage

"What would you do if you only had a few minutes left to live? Phone a loved one? Confess a secret? Eat an expensive mini-bar Toblerone?"

Susan Omand pushed the button and watched the short film 40 Minutes Over Maui...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/short-film-40-minutes-over-maui.html

Our Doctor Who expert Tony Cross steps into the time corridor to read the novelisation of Resurrection of the Daleks by Eric Saward, thanks to BBC Books...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/book-resurrection-of-daleks.html



Wednesday 17th July

On The DreamCage

Tony Cross gets a lesson in modern existentialism reading At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell…

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/book-at-existentialist-cafe-freedom.html

"at no point did I feel that they over-sensationalised things, I didn’t think it was in any way exploitative, and despite how wonderful Smith was in the role of Manson he was not the focal point"

Steve Taylor-Bryant watched Charlie Says...


On AlbieMedia

The BBC Proms season starts on Friday so our resident Prom Queen, Susan Omand, gives you her top five Proms concerts that she’s looking forward to...

 https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/07/top-5-pick-of-proms.html



Thursday 18th July

On The DreamCage

"As we all know, Steve is always right. And, dammit, he is again."

For #EducatingOmand: Screen Edition, Susan Omand watched Saoirse Ronan in Hanna...

 https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/film-educating-omand-screen-edition.html

On AlbieMedia

"I hope I am right in saying that everyone has heard of Mike Oldfield."

Thirty years on from its first release, Susan Omand doesn't remember the Mike Oldfield album Earth Moving...

 https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/07/turn-that-noise-down-mike-oldfield.html

Friday 19th July

 On The DreamCage

It's "a story about a robot with a human soul and a demonically possessed mouse." Find out more about Cognition by Ken Reynolds and Sam Bentley, currently being funded on Kickstarter...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/comic-cognition-vol-1.html

On AlbieMedia

"I'm not being patronising - it's genuinely a good single."

This week's #SotD79 from Jimmy Hunter is The Diary of Horace Wimp by ELO...


"Welcome to the start of 58 days (and 75 Proms-worth) of me wittering on about classical music as we get to grips with yet another year of fantastic Promenade concerts from the Royal Albert Hall. "

Susan Omand has a look at the programme for DAY 1 of the Proms...




Saturday 20th July

 On Saturday we celebrated the 50th anniversary of man's first steps on the moon with a day of moon related articles.
On The DreamCage

Steve Taylor-Bryant decides to celebrate fifty years since the moon landing by celebrating ten years since Duncan Jones Moon was released. Contains spoilers if you somehow haven't seen it...

 https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/moon-day-moon.html

Susan Omand raids her vast bookshelves to find some of her favourite science fiction stories about the moon...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/moon-day-five-stories-about-moon.html

Kraig Taylor-Bryant joins our moon related celebrations today by watching the one that went wrong, Apollo 13...


We're very honoured to have an exclusive guest article from poet, author, broadcaster and moon-thusiast Dom Conlon for our Moon Day celebrations today and he has a theory...


It's one small step for Nate McKenzie as he watched First Man...

 https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/moon-day-first-man.html

Some walk by night, some fly by day. Barnaby Eaton-Jones does both and writes about Moonlighting on the way...


Ian Ham takes on the Selenites and a skeleton with the second (the first was in 1919) film adaptation of H G Wells' novel First Men in the Moon...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/moon-day-first-men-in-moon.html

The eagle has landed with a reminder of Susan Omand's thoughts from last year on the first episode of a Cold War Alt-History audiodrama from Wireless Theatre Company...


To round off our Moon Day on The DreamCage, a reminder of the time Steve Taylor-Bryant watched a film from the London Film Festival Laugh section, back in 2016, that was actually a documentary about the Yugoslav space programme by Žiga Virc and Bostjan Virc...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/07/moon-day-houston-we-have-problem.html


On AlbieMedia

As we're celebrating all things Moon, there's only really one album we could feature for our contribution. Here's a reminder of Susan Omand's thoughts...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/07/moon-day-dark-side-of-moon.html

"Ever since the dawn of time, the human race has cast their eyes to the skies and painted what they’ve seen there."

For Moon Day Susan Omand has a quick look at how the moon has been depicted in art through the ages...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/07/moon-day-moon-in-ten-paintings.html

and away from all things lunar, Susan Omand caught up with what's on for DAY 2 of the Proms...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/07/today-at-proms-prom-2.html


Find this week's contributors on Twitter

@JimJamGin
@STBwrites
@OmandOriginal
@Lokster71
@Kraigandhismac
Jon Britton
@BarnabyEJ
@IanHam_
@Thoughtsinnate

 And our VIP (very important poet) guest for Moon Day @Dom_Conlon