This Week's DCMG Digest - 14th to 20th September


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/

This week, Tony and Steve watched some new documentaries at Open City Documentary Festival...

"a documentary where you get to taste, for a moment, life in an entirely different place at an entirely different pace"

Tony Cross watched Trouble Sleep...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/09/documentary-trouble-sleep.html


"What a very interesting way to spend an hour."

Steve Taylor-Bryant watched Intimate Distances...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/09/documentary-intimate-distances.html


"If ever there is a documentary made for this ‘Now’ then The Viewing Booth is it."

Tony Cross watched The Viewing Booth...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/09/documentary-viewing-booth.html


"If by watching these documentaries, which tell their stories gently but effectively, Mondesir can stir a person to radical empathy then that makes them worthwhile."

Tony Cross watched A Radical Empathy: Esery Mondesir’s Haitian Trilogy...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/09/documentary-radical-empathy-esery.html


"This is a fly on the wall and its reality feels real because the issues are real."

Tony Cross watched The Choice...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/09/documentary-choice.html


and a reminder of Steve's Open City documentary review from last week, The American Sector...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/09/documentary-american-sector.html



Elsewhere on The DreamCage

Available to pre-order now, Oliver Kent read issue 1 of Commanders in Crisis from Steve Orlando, with art by Davide Tinto...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/09/comic-commanders-in-crisis.html


Kraig Taylor-Bryant takes a look behind the scenes of Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster by reading The Secrets of Tenet: Inside Christopher Nolan's Quantum Cold War by James Mottram, out now from Titan Books...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/09/book-secrets-of-tenet.html


"an astonishing film that will more than likely divide opinion, which is as fitting a tribute to the man as I can think of."

Steve Taylor-Bryant watched the new biopic of Tesla...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/09/film-tesla_18.html


For yesterday's International Talk like a Pirate Day, a reminder of that Scottish scourge of the high seas, Susan Omand's top five (not Arrrr rated) Pirate-ish films that arrrren’t Pirates of the Caribbean...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2016/09/films-top-five-films-for-talk-like.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...



Scott Weiland wearing headphones on record cover



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

"I feel cheated! When an album is called 12 Bar Blues you (well, at least I) expect just that – a blues album." 

For #EducatingOmand this week, Susan Omand listened to the Scott Weiland album 12 Bar Blues...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/09/educating-omand-year-3-scott-weiland.html


"it’s not BAAAD bad, it’s disappointingly not as good." 

This week's #SotD80 choice by Jimmy Hunter is XTC's song Generals and Majors...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/09/sotd80-xtc.html


"Charlie Musselwhite’s now iconic harmonica on Suicide Blonde kicks off 42 minutes of the most beautiful memories" 

Thirty years on, Steve Taylor-Bryant looks back at the INXS album X...



"I am a little bit in love with the band, now that I have discovered their existence" 

Susan Omand listened to the latest single from The Struts, Strange Days...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/09/sotd-struts.html


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@Lokster71
@JimJamGin
@STBwrites
@omandoriginal
@Kraigandhismac
Oliver Kent

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