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 9th September

On The DreamCage

Now available to watch on Amazon Prime Video, a reminder of Steve Taylor-Bryant thoughts on 1 World 100 Lonely from Lefthouse Films from Raindance 2015...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-1-world-100-lonely.html

On AlbieMedia

"It's the start of the final week of Proms concerts and they're making sure we go out with a bang, not a whimper"

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 68: Wagner Night ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-68.html


Tuesday 10th September

On AlbieMedia

"Again it's the later evening prom that interests me this time [Shock! Horror! - Ed]."

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 69: Smetana, Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky and Prom 70: Jonny Greenwood ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-69-70.html

Titter ye much as multi award winning David Benson is to lead an all-star cast in a sparkling new live audio recording of the Frankie Howerd comedy classic, Up Pompeii...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/news-up-pompeii.html

Wednesday 11th September

On The DreamCage

"Elections, directed by Alice Riff, is on the surface about an election at DAS Public School in São Paulo. But there’s more to it than that. Obviously."

Tony Cross watched the documentary Elections at Open City Documentary Festival...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/documentary-elections.html

"he wrote some real human moments, some fascinating plot twists, used an intriguing premise in a way I had not seen before"

Due in cinemas and on Digital HD from Friday thanks to Signature Entertainment, Steve Taylor-Bryant watched Night Hunter...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-night-hunter.html

On AlbieMedia

"Now this is an interesting idea."

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 71: Bach Night ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-71.html

"The Show Must Go On!" Daniel White breaks free for a few days of Mercury memories at the Freddie Celebration Days in Montreux last weekend...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/festival-freddie-celebration-days-2019.html

Thursday 12th September

On The DreamCage

"There is something elegiac about Caballerango."

Tony Cross watched the documentary at the Open City Documentary Festival...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/documentary-caballerango.html

Brought to you in glorious technicolor, Daniel White discovers the allegory of Pleasantville is not just black and white...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-pleasantville.html

On AlbieMedia

"There may look like there are two proms tonight but it's really the same one twice"

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Proms 72 & 73 : Symphonie fantastique ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-72-73.html

"Duchess. Of Malfi? Of Duke Street? Nooooo, silly."

Jimmy Hunter's SotD79 choice this week is by The Stranglers...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/sotd79-stranglers.html

"When an album costs in excess of a million pounds to produce today eyebrows still raise, but a million pounds for what is essentially eight tracks back then was a massive gamble"

Thirty years on from release, Steve Taylor-Bryant remembers Tears for Fears and Sowing the Seeds...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/turn-that-noise-down-tears-for-fears.html

Friday 13th September

On The DreamCage

A lack of good information after a life-changing diagnosis, led comic-creator Rees Finlay to research and write his own. Susan Omand takes a look at a preview of Reaffirmation: Coming to Terms with an Autism Diagnosis...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/book-reaffirmation-coming-to-terms-with.html

"This is a quiet film about a terrible crime."

Tony Cross watched The Crosses (Las Cruces) at the Open City Documentary Festival...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/documentary-crosses-las-cruces.html

On AlbieMedia

"But it is the final work of the night that everyone, everywhere will know. Even the Vogons"

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 74: Beethoven Night ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-74.html

Saturday 14th September

On The DreamCage

"Soderbergh’s film chronicles the 2015 real-life ‘Panama Papers’ incident, during which 11.5 million documents giving detailed information on over 200,000 offshore entities were leaked."

Ren Zelen watched The Laundromat...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-laundromat.html

Someone has given Daniel White a sock so, instead of tidying the office like a good house-elf, he's written about the films of Harry Potter (some spoilers)...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-just-pottering-about.html

On AlbieMedia

"“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”" Daniel White looks at the music of the Harry Potter films...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/feature-music-of-harry-potter.html

Rounding off our daily coverage of what's on at The Proms 2019, Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-75.html

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