This Week's DCMG Digest


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

On The DreamCage - https://www.thedreamcage.com/

As if he didn't know enough about movies and pop culture already, Nate McKenzie read the latest Shea Serrano book Movies (and Other Things)...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/book-movies-and-other-things.html

Be careful what you wish for... Nate McKenzie watched the short film Fear Wish, written and directed by Zak White and Todd Spence...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/short-film-fear-wish.html

Ren Zelen sinks her teeth into Gothic classics with a re-examination of Gatiss & Moffat’s Dracula vs Bram Stoker’s Vampire lore...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/tv-dracula_14.html

What’s black and white with 2020 Vision? Alan Henderson’s Penned Guins are back with a new collection currently available for pre-order on Kickstarter. Susan Omand takes a look...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/book-penned-guin-presents-vision.html


"You see people, I see assets." We see that Steve Taylor-Bryant is watching Treadstone on Amazon Prime...
https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/tv-treadstone.html

With far too many plot strands to keep track of, confusion over what a UK Christmas number one is, bad accents, biscuits and not enough nudity (don't ask) we catch up with our bestest podcast buddies at Was This Always Weird and let them know that we feel it in our fingers, we feel it in our toes...


"How do you make an animated Will Smith look like Will Smith? Moreover, how do you make an animated pigeon look like the animated Will Smith who looks like Will Smith?"

Susan Omand reads The Art of Spies in Disguise, out now from Titan Books...


Today is the 211th birthday of Edgar Allan Poe. To celebrate, our own Gothic maestra Ren Zelen examines The Fall of the House of Usher...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/book-edgar-allan-poe.html


The Chinese Visual Festival is screening some of the very best of Chinese language cinema across the UK to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year.

Coming to Regent Street Cinema in London and CCA in Glasgow this month, Tony Cross watched The Wild Goose Lake...
https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/film-wild-goose-lake.html

and coming to BFI Southbank in London and Summerhall in Edinburgh, Tony Cross watched the documentary Four Springs...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/documentary-four-springs.html


On 26th December 2019, 627 pieces of Classic Doctor Who content were made available to Britbox subscribers. Every Sunday in 2020, our Doctor Who expert, Tony Cross, looks back at some of the classic stories. Here are this week's First Doctor adventures...

The Sensorites (6 Episodes)
Planet Of Giants (3 Episodes)
The Dalek Invasion Of Earth (6 Episodes) 


Meanwhile on AlbieMedia - https://www.albiemedia.com/

The Brit Award Nominees got announced over the weekend. Susan Omand takes a look at the list and picks her winners...
https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/01/opinion-brits-nominations.html

"I thought long and hard about this week’s choice. And then did it again, and again."

Jimmy Hunter has a decision to make for this week's #SotD80...


"Tanita Tikaram is one of those artists I’m instantly drawn to."

Thirty years on from release, Steve Taylor-Bryant looks back at The Sweet Keeper...

 https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/01/turn-that-noise-down-tanita-tikaram.html



Another welcome return for the month, to add some diet-friendly fun back into January, #NotBaconBits is back and we're looking for more of your suggestions. Here's this week's chain...

 From Screaming Trees

to Annie Lennox
to The Shamen
to Buddy Rich
to Kaleo
to Pavarotti
to Garland Jeffreys
to Ramones
to Nick Lowe

 Thanks to everyone who contributed #NotBaconBits ideas this week - keep visiting @AlbieMediaAM on Twitter every day to join in with your own ideas for the rest of the month!
Find this week's contributors on Twitter

@CircusJump_
@JimJamGin
@STBwrites
@OmandOriginal
@Lokster71
@RenZelen

and find our Podcasting partners @WasThisAlways