Thursday, June 1, 2017

Overlooked A/V: reviews, etc. of films, television, radio, podcasts, stage productions, video games, museum shows and more

A. J. Wright: Silent-Filmmaking in Birmingham

Alice Chang:  South Park: The Stick of Truth; The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (parody of typical game reviewers)

 the Allan Fish Online Film Festival 2017

Anne Billson: The Comedy of Terrors

The Big Broadcast: 28 May 2017; features Murder by Experts and The Mysterious Traveler


Bill Crider: The Count of Monte Cristo (1934 film) [trailer]







Jack Criddle: Underrated 1987 films

 Jackie Kashian/The Dork Forest: Charlie Hester, voice actress/composer

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Sunday, May 28, 2017

May's Underappreciated Music: the links

The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...



Patti Abbott: Rhiannon Giddens: "Come, Love, Come"

 Brian Arnold: Galactic Empire

 Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday Night Videos

 Augusta Bluegrass Women: "Road to Carolina"


 Paul D. Brazill: A Song for Saturday

 Jim Cameron: Todd Barkan

 Sean Coleman: Paul McCartney: Flowers in the Dirt; Yes: Close to the Edge

 David Cramner: Michael Martin Murphy: "Red River Valley"

 Bill Crider: Song of the Day; Forgotten Hits; Earl Sinks

 Jawbox: "Mirrorful"


 Jawbox: "Static"


 Jawbox: "Cornflake Girl"

 Jeff Gemmill: Rumer: Seasons of My Soul; Jan and Dean: Folk 'n' Roll; Fazerdaze: Morningside;  Top 5; Graham Parker live 2017;  Erin O'Dowd; Courtney Marie Andrews live 2017;  Juliana Hatfield 1993; Hatfield's letter and lock of hair; Hannah Layton Turner (of Hannah's Yard); Maria McKee live 2003; Garland Jeffreys: 14 Steps to Harlem

 Jerry House: The Sons of the Pioneers; Hymn Time; Music from the Past

 George Kelley: The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band deluxe multidisc set

 Kate Laity: Song for a Saturday

B. V. Lawson: Your Sunday Music Treat: Concerto for Theremin by Anis Fuleihan; Satie: Gymnopédie No.1

 Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "Something's Coming"


 Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "A Taste of Honey"


Steve Lewis, Jonathan Lewis and Michael Shonk: Music I'm Listening To

 Maltin on Movies: composer Michael Giacchino

 J. Eric Mason: Foxygen: "San Francisco"


 Kliph Nesteroff: Hanna-Barbera Records

 Andrew Orley: Nobody's Listening

Lawrence Person: Shoegazer Sunday

 Charlie Ricci: The Allman Brothers Band: Hittin' the Note

Stereo Williams: George Harrison (courtesy Bill Crider)

 The Zombies: "Beechwood Park" (text interview)


 The Zombies: Remember You


 The Zombies: Any Other Way


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Saturday, May 27, 2017

Overlooked A/V: the links to the reviews, discussions and more: film, television, radio, podcasts and more: new links added

The (usually) weekly assembly of links to blogposts, reviews, essays, podcasts and other items of interest about audio/visual work, usually first-rate and deserving of one's attention but sometimes less so and sometimes deserving of obscurity, up to and including opera, stage drama, conventions, museum exhibits, videogames (and boardgames), and more. Terribly sorry for some weeks and some days delay; it really has been one damned thing after another of late..Thanks to all who have produced the items linked to below! And please let me know if I've missed yours or someone else's.  
Remembrance of Roger Moore, Dina Merrill and others will be found among the blogs and posts below. 

 A. J. Wright: Whispering City; Marilyn McCoo

 Alice Chang: Dark Souls; PlayStation 4; Persona 5; Ori and the Blind Forest

 the Allan Fish Online Film Festival 2017

 Anne Billson: Diamonds Are Forever (Cat of the Day)

 The Big Broadcast: 21 May 2017 

Bill Crider: Our Miss Brooks (1956 film) [trailer]; She's All That [trailer]; Return of the Lash; The Man in the Iron Mask (1939 film) [trailer]; Mainly Millicent: with Roger Moore as James Bond (1964)








Dan Stumpf: Return to Warbow: Sing and Like It; The Hustler 

 Dana Gould: Eddie Pepitone; Ken Reid; Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?; Lizzie Borden

 David Cramner: backgammon in film and literature; Aldous Huxley on TechnoDictators

 David Vineyard: This Man is News

 Earl Green: Trying Times (courtesy Brian Arnold)

 Elgin Bleecker: Naked City (1948 film); Line of Duty

 Elizabeth Foxwell: Shield for Murder: 99 River Street; George V. Higgins speaks (1985); House by the River; David C. Raskin: Lie Detection and the Judicial System (1975 lecture)

 Evan Lewis: The Maltese Falcon and related matter: The Adventures of Sam Spade: "The Kandy Tooth"; The Maltese Falcon (1941 film); Satan Met a Lady; The Maltese Falcon (1931 film); &...Star Trek Continues: "Pilgrim of Eternity"; The Brasher Doubloon

 The Faculty of Horror: The Descent

 George Kelley: Cabaret (current stage production); The Grace Kelly Collection

 Hal Horn: Underrated 1987 films

 How Did This Get Made?: Stealth; My Stepmother is an Alien

 Iba Dawson: The Get-Down; Turner Classic Film Festival 2017: Ntrate; Pre-Code Films

 International Waters: Graham Elwood; Guy Branum; Caroline Mabey; Lucy Pearman; host Dave Holmes; Bil Dwyer, Ophira Eisenberg, Tom Bell, and Holly Burn

 Trials of O'Brien: "Picture Me a Murder" A one-season series for Peter Falk; early tv work, in this episode excerpt, for Joanna Pettet (long-term media crush), Jessica Walter, Alan Alda, Charles Grodin, Claude Akins; series semi-regular Elaine Stritch, as Falk/O'Brien's receptionist, doesn't appear in this first 9 minutes of the episode (a battered but watchable teaser to encourage you to buy gray-market copies)

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Spotlight Scandals; the color episodes of The Andy Griffith Show; The Mysterious Airman; Trials of O'Brien; Never Let Me Go; Calvin and the Colonel; Feel My Pulse; Afraid to Talk; Crime Does Not Pay: "A Thrill for Thelma"; Blondes and Redheads: Pre-Code Comedy Classics, Volume 2; Swiss Family Robinson (1940 film); Early Women Filmmakers

 J. Kingston Pierce: Roger Moore; more on Moore

 Jack Seabrook: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Gentleman Caller"; "Return of Verge Likens"; "Bed of Roses"





 John Grant: Un Crime; A Time to Kill (1955 film); Wrong Number (2002 film); Powers Boothe; "Tragic Error"; The Mysterious Doctor; Inquest; The Purple Gang; "Los Crímenes"
Jonathan Lewis: Rage (1972 film); The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave; The Treasure of Pancho Villa; Ghost Town (1988 film)

 Judy Gold/Kill Me Now: Felicia Michaels

 Karen Hannsberry: Great Villain Blogathon; Five Stars: Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Barbara Stanwyk, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis; Hold Your Man

 Kate Laity: "Witches" at September Gallery

 Ken Levine: next season's sitcoms; sitcom writing underachievement

 Ken Reid/TV Guidance Counselor: Stephen Bissette, horror/comics guy

 Kim Newman: Kaboom; Don't Let Him In; Cobra Woman

 Kliph Nesteroff: The Steve Allen Christmas Show (1961); The Paul Lynde Show (with guest Jodie Foster).[..a vintage example of sub-par sitcom writing...]; East Side, West Side: "The Beatnik and the Politician" with Alan Arkin

 Kristina Dijan: The Invisible Ray; Union Depot; Great Villains Blogathon; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

 Laura G: Disneyland; Split Second; Dina Merrill and Roger Moore; Daredevils of the Red Circle; Challenge to Lassie; Spencer's Mountain; All the King's Men; Hollow Triumph; The Big Heat; Iron Man (1951 film); The Man Who Cheated Himself; Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival 2017

 Lindsey D: Eyewitness (1956 film); Let's Make It Legal; Topper Returns; Extraordinary Tales; Two on a Guillotine

The Long Shot: Tim Baltz; Helen Hong; Paul Danke; Jordan Brady

 Louis Fowler: South Bronx Heroes; The Firm

 Maria Alexander: What Star Wars (including the radio series) meant for me...

 Mark Anthony Lacy: Top 12 1960s sexploitation films

Martin Edwards: Dead Man's Evidence; Don't Talk to Strange Men; Crimefest; Allied; Thriller of the Year (stage); Danger by My Side; Stranger in Town





Patricia Abbott: 30 Rock; 1984 (1984 film); Late Night with David Letterman; A Quiet Passion 

 Patricia Nolan-Hall: Ricardo Cortez; Simon and Laura; Five Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Cagney, Laurel and Hardy, John Wayne; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Dial M for Murder (1954); Little Boy Lost; Me and My Pal; The Far Country

 Paul D. Brazill: Dog Soldiers; Last Cab to Darwin; Len and Company 

 The Projection Booth: The Lost One; The Ninth Configuration; Who is Arthur Chu?; Mommie Dearest; Wanda Whips Wall Street; Rick Marx; Tami Stronach

Raquel Stecher: The Beguiled; Dancing Lady; What's Up, Doc?; The China Syndrome

Ren Zelen: Something Wild

Rick: The African Queen; Five Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Katherine Hepburn; Young Sherlock Holmes; Billy Wider; Marlowe; 
equestrian films

 Rod Lott: Wolves at the Door; The Circle; Rest Stop: SST: Death Flight; SnakeEater; SnakeEater II: The Drug Buster; The Belko Experiment

 Ruth Kerr: Night Nurse; You Can't Take It With You; Five Stars: Ida Lupino, The Nicholas Brothers, Thelma Ritter, John Wayne; Stella Dallas; TCM Classic Film Festival


 Salome Wilde: A Woman's Face (1938 Sweden and 1941 US); Laird Cregar; Five Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Lauren Bacall, Peter Lorre; Nazi noir: The Murderers are Among Us; Turn the Key Softly; noir and the Oscars; Finger of Guilt (aka Intimate Stranger)

 Scott A. Cupp: Arsene Lupin; The Giant Claw; The Neanderthal Man (1953 film); Reaper: Pilot 

Sergio Angelini: Last Resort; The Woman in Green;  The Marseilles Contract

 Stacia Kissick Jones: Johnny Guitar; Gas-s-s-s

 Stacie Ponder: The Fog

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