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 16th September

On The DreamCage

Everything is on the line as Susan Omand watched The Hummingbird Project, coming to digital on 4th October...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-hummingbird-project.html
On AlbieMedia

Think a night at the opera is just for the very rich, big city slickers? Think again, as Daniel White looks at the rise of live opera at the cinema...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/opinion-night-at-opera-rise-of-live.html

Tuesday 17th September

On The DreamCage

Wonderland, an anthology of stories inspired by Alice's adventures, is published today by Titan Books. Editors Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane have given us their recommendations for authors writing within someone else's literary universe, Playing With Someone Else’s Toys...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/book-wonderland-anthology.html

On AlbieMedia

In an effort to further her musical education, Susan Omand has been set "homework" of listening to albums released after the 1980s that she has missed out on. This week she's blindsided by Diamond Eyes ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/educating-omand-year-2-deftones.html


Wednesday 18th September

On The DreamCage

Daniel White dug through his vast horror film collection and is now rewatching a box set of classic monster movies from Universal. For his first Universal Monster of the Week, he looks back at Frankenstein...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-universal-monsters-collection.html

"It is possible that this short film – it’s just over an hour long – was made just for me."

Tony Cross did his research and watched MS Slavic 7 at Open City Documentary Festival...


https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-ms-slavic-7.html


Thursday 19th September

On The DreamCage

On next week at Raindance Film Festival, Steve Taylor-Bryant discovered there's a lot of love for a "little guy" as he watched Under the Radar: The Mike Edmonds Story...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/documentary-under-radar-mike-edmonds.html

"Let’s start with the easy bit. I loved Emma Peeters, which is a witty, suicide rom-com from Belgian-American writer-director Nicole Palo. And yes, I did say suicide rom-com."

On next week at Raindance Film Festival, Tony Cross watched Emma Peeters...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-emma-peeters_19.html


On AlbieMedia

"The lyrics of this went round our school so quickly, we all adopted them into the vernacular"

This week's #SotD79 choice from Jimmy Hunter is by XTC...


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

"I guess I didn’t think that he was on the go in the 80s, I always thought Mama Said from 1991 was his first album."

Thirty years after its first release, Susan Omand discovers the real debut album of Lenny Kravitz...


https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/turn-that-noise-down-lenny-kravitz.html


Friday 20th September

On The DreamCage

Recreating snapshots in the life of the famous photographer, Steve Taylor-Bryant watched the biopic Mapplethorpe, out on Digital HD next week thanks to Signature Entertainment...

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

"First, they come for the Trade Unionists."

Tony Cross watched the political documentary Solidarity by Lucy Parker at Open City Documentary Festival...


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

On AlbieMedia

The Show Goes On for Daniel White as childhood memories of the theatre come flooding back with the album Scenes from the Southside by Bruce Hornsby & the Range...


https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/review-bruce-hornsby-range.html


Saturday 21st September

On The DreamCage

Daniel White plays his own version of Rock, Paper, Scissors to try and work out which is better - the traditional paperback or an eBook. There's only one way to find out...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/books-book-paper-kindle.html

Happy Batman Day! In order to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the dark knight, a reminder from earlier this year that our own dark knight David Ames gave himself the task of casting a new Batfamily for the rebooted Batman movie universe...

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


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