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/

 The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is FINALLY getting a UK cinema release. Here's a reminder of the time a few years back that Steve Taylor-Bryant had to learn enough Spanish to watch the film on Blu-ray...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/film-man-who-killed-don-quixote.html

Outstanding in his own field, Barnaby Eaton-Jones watched both episodes of the new BBC adaptation of Worzel Gummidge and interviewed cast members Ben Langley and Andrew James Spooner...

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

Barnaby Eaton-Jones also paid tribute to comedy great Terry Jones, who died this week...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/terry-jones.html

With discussions around the Dadaist properties of a film that makes Dumb and Dumber look intellectual, along with sidetracks about Magic the Gathering, a dislike of goatee beards and far too much emphasis on "that" horse scene, this week's Was This Always Weird podcast tackle the travesty that is Freddy Got Fingered

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/podcast-was-this-always-weird-freddy.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 Tony's thoughts on...






Also this week we had a theme day of articles to celebrate the Lunar New Year, the Chinese Year of the Rat...

As an Introduction, Susan Omand explains more about the Year of the Rat...

 https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/raturday-introduction.html

"Oh, rats! It's the Secret of NIMH. And what a nice little secret it is, too."

Alwyn Ash looked back at the film...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/raturday-film-secret-of-nimh.html

A reminder for our rat themed day of the time our own hero in a half-shell, the Defective Inspector, decided to seek out the good in everything. Even really, really bad films like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/raturday-silver-lining-teenage-mutant.html

It's not just movies that have had rats in starring roles, there are lots of books that feature the lovable little rodents as central characters. Susan Omand takes a look at a few...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/01/raturday-literary-rats.html


Our Rat theme continued on AlbieMedia - https://www.albiemedia.com/

If you're in need of some Rat themed music for this weekend's celebration, Marc Nash has just the playlist you need...

 https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/01/raturday-playlist-of-day.html

For our Rats theme day, Marc Nash also looked back to the The Stranglers first album Rattus Norvegicus...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/01/raturday-stranglers.html


In other AlbieMedia news...


"I just love 2 Tone too much and the choice became as clear as a shining star once I’d actually approached it from different angles."

For this week's #SotD80, Jimmy Hunter goes for something Specials



"Fish without Marillion is a lot better than Marillion without Fish. In my opinion anyway."

Thirty years after the album's release, Susan Omand looks back at Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors by Fish...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/01/turn-that-noise-down-fish.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, when we went from Pretenders...

to Kate Bush

to Space & Cerys Matthews

to Stereophonics

to Mike Oldfield

to Jon & Vangelis

to Dire Straits


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

@JimJamGin
@STBwrites
@OmandOriginal
@21stCScribe
@AlwynAsh
@DefInspector
@BarnabyEJ

and find our Podcasting partners @WasThisAlways