This Week on the DCMG Websites


With a lot of film festival reviews, here's a round up of all the new articles this week on The DreamCage and AlbieMedia websites...

Monday 23rd September

 On The DreamCage

Susan Omand puts an apron on over her browncoat and tackles Firefly: The Big Damn Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, published by Titan Books...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/book-firefly-big-damn-cookbook.html

"My Dearest Sister is the story of filmmaker, Kyoko Tsukamoto’s attempts to reconnect with her sister, a potter living in Fukushima."

Tony Cross watched the film at Raindance Film Festival...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-my-dearest-sister.html

 On AlbieMedia

Steve Taylor-Bryant is proved right (again) as he listens to the first single from Gozer Goodspeed's upcoming album, Running with the Outliers...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/review-gozer-goodspeed.html
Tuesday 24th September

On The DreamCage

Daniel White pays tribute to the late Terrance Dicks as he leafs back through the Doctor Who Target Books collection...


"After that things get weird."

Tony Cross watched A Dobugawa Dream at Raindance Film Festival...

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


Wednesday 25th September

On The DreamCage

Steve Taylor-Bryant discovered a much darker side to European film as he watched Dark, Almost Night, on recently at Raindance Film Festival...

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


Thursday 26th September

On The DreamCage

"the ugly story of President Duterte’s campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines."

Tony Cross watched On the President’s Orders at Raindance Film Festival...


Ren Zelen makes a start on a busy London Film Festival and feels the chill of Ghost Town Anthology...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-ghost-town-anthology.html

On AlbieMedia

"1979 was the peak of disco in its current form but commercial success was being enjoyed by many bands in other genres."

Jimmy Hunter's #SotD79 this week is by Siouxsie and the Banshees...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/sotd79-siouxsie-and-banshees.html

"I’d honestly forgotten Wake Me When it’s Over existed."

Thirty years after its release, Steve Taylor-Bryant looks back at the Faster Pussycat album...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/turn-that-noise-down-faster-pussycat.html

Friday 27th September

 On The DreamCage

With a couple of days to go on his latest Death Sentence: Liberty kickstarter, comics creator supremo Monty Nero tells us about the big idea behind writing the Death Sentence series...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/comic-death-sentence-liberty.html

"Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly is a documentary about not just Ai Weiwei, although it is centred on him. It is a film about activism and activists more generally and it is also about the role of art as a political tool."

Tony Cross watched the film at Raindance Film Festival...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/documentary-ai-weiwei-yours-truly.html

With a bodycount of less than 81, a cheese count of at least 11, and a very surprising fact about the sequel, this week's Was This Always Weird podcast looks back at the 1985 film Commando...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/podcast-was-this-always-weird-commando.html



Saturday 28th September

On The DreamCage

 "interweaves life in an elite girls’ boarding school in contemporary Paris with history, folklore and the religion of voodoo in the Haiti of 1962."

Coming to London Film Festival next weekend, Ren Zelen takes a stab at Zombi Child...

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


Find this week's contributors on Twitter

@JimJamGin
@STBwrites
@OmandOriginal
@Lokster71
@DanielWBmouth
@RenZelen

and find our Podcasting partners @WasThisAlways