Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V; the links

The MiddleMan
This week's selection of (mostly) recommendations of (and a few warnings about) insufficiently-appreciated or simply obscure film, television, radio, audio recordings, and more...thanks, as always, to all the contributors and to you readers; Patrick Murtha joins us for the first time, this week, and welcome!

Dedicated this week to the memory of Stan Freberg.

Anne Billson: The Three Musketeers in film and television

Bill Crider: Nadine [trailer]; The EQMM Podcast: "The Adventure of the 'Two-Headed Dog'"

Brian Arnold: Redux Deluxe
Mystery in Swing

Brian Greene: Black Rainbow

BV Lawson: Media Murder

Comedy Film Nerds: Matt Mira

"Crime HQ": Videogames: Training for Psychopaths...and Saints?

David Cramner: Ron Scheer: My West: The Sandhills of Nebraska

Ed Lynskey: Framed

Elizabeth Foxwell: Mystery in Swing; National Archives declassification hearings

Evan Lewis: The Big Trail

Francis M. Nevins: Danger and Suspense the tv series and John Dickson Carr

George Kelley: The MiddleMan

Mistress America
How Did This Get Made?: Lake Placid

Iba Dawson: Eden; Mistress America

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: The Sin of Nora Moran; TCM fare: The Sorcerers, et al.; Nero Wolfe on radio

Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Poison" (by Roald Dahl)

Jackie Kashian: Mike Olsen and Andy Ashcraft on game design...and children's television

Jacqueline T. Lynch: Dead Reckoning

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Jake Hinkson: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

James Reasoner: I'll Believe You

Jeff Flugel: The Girl Hunters

Jeff Gemmill: Pretty Little Liars

Jerry House: Stoopnagle and BuddThe Killer Shrews; TED Talks: "Amanda Palmer: The Art of Asking"; Nude on the Moon

John Grant: Penny and the Pownall Case; A Passport to Hell

Jonathan Lewis: Race with the Devil

Juri Nummelin: The Killing of America; The Last Starfighter

Kate Laity: PCA 2015 and New Orleans; The Screaming Mimi

Kliph Nesteroff: Dick Gautier (Part 2)

Laura: The Hidden Room (1949 film); College Coach

The Hidden Room:


Lucy Brown: Lesbians coming to bad ends in UK tv drama (some series finale "spoilers" here)

Martin Edwards: Funeral in Berlin

Marty McKee: Doctor of Doom

Mystery Dave: The Opposite Sex and How to Live With Them

Romance de fieras (unfortunately, without English subtitles)


It Follows
Patrick Murtha: Romance de fieras

Patti Abbott: The Apartment as The 1960s film

Randy Johnson: Introspection IV (short fiction by Fredric Brown on LP reissued); The Dirty Fifteen (aka...)

Rick: The Girl in Black Stockings

Rod Lott: The Ghastly Ones; It Follows

Sergio Angelini: The Vicious Circle

Stacia Jones: The Barber

"St. George and the Dragonet" animated:

6 comments:

  1. Todd, can you fix the typo in my name in the post? I'm flattered to be taken for pioneering physician Elizabeth Blackwell, but I'm Elizabeth Foxwell.

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  2. I suspect that is an attainable goal! Sorry about that. My Apple machine still wants to fight, distractingly, with Blogspot (including spell-"correcting" the name of the site).

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  3. Thanks, Todd! Isn't autocorrect a pain?

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  4. Not to mention the bad interface between Apple machines and Blogspot generally. I've never liked Apple machines...incentive to haul my PC down to the local fixing shop.

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  5. Now that's what I call a bumper crop - thanks Todd, amazing company to be in.

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  6. Thanks for contributing so consistently, Sergio...you certainly add to every week's effort. I have to wonder how this many particularly discourage anyone from seeking out every one of them...

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