This week's selections of insufficiently (or sometimes not quite insufficiently) appreciated items of film, television, radio, stage, and other dramatic performing arts productions. If I've missed your, or someone else's review, citation, etc., please let me know in comments. Thanks to all the contributors and to you readers.
Anne Billson: Rep: Older Films I Saw in Theaters in 2015
Anonymous: The Double Life of Veronique; The Lady Eve
Bhob Stewart: Ryan Larkin; Hunger by Peter Foldes; Alicia Minor's "Cannibal Holocaust"
The Big Broadcast: 3 January 2016
Bill Crider: Secret of the Incas [clip, albeit w/spoilers]
Brian Arnold: Popeye: "Spinach Greetings"
BV Lawson: Media Murder
Colin: Santa Fe Passage
Comedy Film Nerds: Year's End
The Cracked Podcast: Movies Which Would Be Better from a Different POV
Cynthia Fuchs: Left on Purpose; Missing People
Dan Stumpf: It's in the Bag [and previous takes: Walter Albert's and my own]
David Vineyard: The Yellow One
Dorian Bartolucci: His Kind of Woman
Elgin Bleecker: Cold in July
Eve: Leatrice Joy Gilbert Fountain
Elizabeth Foxwell: The Unholy Four (aka The Stranger Came Home); Red Nightmare
Evan Lewis: Captain Midnight (a 1955 tv episode)
Gary Deane: 11 for 2015
George Kelley: Brooklyn; Carol
Gilligan Newton-John: Benji (the audio/storybook adaptation); Take This Job and Shove It; four obscure action films (some NSFW imagery); Ice Capades 1975
Iba Dawson: Miles Ahead; Macbeth (2015)
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Cattle Empire; the GetTV network, et al.; classic Xmas films
Jack Seabrook, Peter Enfantino, John Scoleri, Jose Cruz and Gilbert: 2015 favorites, new and reissued
Jackie Kashian: Brock Wilbur on Silent Hill and other horror-oriented video games; Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin's new podcast
Jacqueline T. Lynch: classic Xmas films
Jake Hinkson: 2015, old and new films
James Branscome: 2015 discoveries of older films
James Clark: Flight of the Red Balloon
James Reasoner: Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Janet Varney: Aya Cash
Jerry House: The Scarecrow (1920 film)
John Grant: The Painted Lady; Mystery of the 13th Guest
Jonathan Lewis: Hero and the Terror; You and Me
Karen Hannsberry: Convicted; The Criminal Code
Kate Laity: The Ealing Comedies
Ken Levine: Wayne Rogers; how US broadcast networks might get out of their slump
Kevin Pollak's Chat Show: Kelly Carlin
Kristina Dijan: Jack the Ripper (1959 film); The Life of Jimmy Dolan; Highway Dragnet; A Matter of Life and Death; December films
Laura G: The Letter; And Now Tomorrow; Cy Endfield; Hitler's Children; Dial Red O; Pillow to Post
Lucy Brown: The First of the Few
Marty McKee: Truck Turner; Escape 2000 (aka Turkey Shoot)
Mildred Perkins: Fido
Mystery Dave: The Aviator
Patricia Nolan-Hall: The Absent-Minded Professor
Patti Abbott: Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams; Michael Caine; One and Done
Pop My Culture: Matt Mira
Rick: Homicidal; 2015 most popular posts
Robert/Television Obscurities: WCBW (later WCBS) schedule, Week of 29 June 1941; Code 3 (tv series); The Ghostbreaker (1967 telefilm/pilot)
Rod Lott: On Her Bed of Roses; House of Long Shadows; Fantastic Four (2015 film); Shriek of the Mutilated
Rupert Pupkin: Figures in a Landscape
Ruth Kerr: Borderline
Sachin Gandhi: 2015 Top Ten films, and honorable mentions
Scott A. Cupp: Them!
Sergio Angelini: film noir
Stacia Kissick Jones: The Earth vs. the Flying Saucers; The Discoverers
Stephen Bowie: The "Vast Wasteland" at 50
Steve Lewis: Confidentially Yours [aka...]; Ghost Story: "The New House" (pilot)
Todd Mason: Fred Allen memorialized by Toshiko Akiyoshi, Cyd Charisse and Ann Landers among more likely folk; recent television series in "less-traveled" pathways:
The Man in the High Castle (Amazon)
Midtown (TuffTV broadcast/Amazon streaming)
Everyone's Crazy But Us (Funny or Die/YouTube streaming)
The Hotwives of Atlanta (Hulu)
No, You Shut Up! (Fusion cablecast/YouTube streaming)
W/Bob & David (Netflix)
The Price of More (Crackle streaming)
Falcón (CinéMoi cable/streaming)
Spotless (Esquire Network/streaming)
Flesh and Bone (Starz)
Vienna: The Letter
Wallace Stroby: The Five Best Heist Films You've Never Seen
WTF: Gloria Steinem and Kliph Nesteroff
Anne Billson: Rep: Older Films I Saw in Theaters in 2015
Anonymous: The Double Life of Veronique; The Lady Eve
Bhob Stewart: Ryan Larkin; Hunger by Peter Foldes; Alicia Minor's "Cannibal Holocaust"
The Big Broadcast: 3 January 2016
Bill Crider: Secret of the Incas [clip, albeit w/spoilers]
Brian Arnold: Popeye: "Spinach Greetings"
BV Lawson: Media Murder
Colin: Santa Fe Passage
Comedy Film Nerds: Year's End
The Cracked Podcast: Movies Which Would Be Better from a Different POV
Cynthia Fuchs: Left on Purpose; Missing People
Dan Stumpf: It's in the Bag [and previous takes: Walter Albert's and my own]
David Vineyard: The Yellow One
Dorian Bartolucci: His Kind of Woman
Elgin Bleecker: Cold in July
Eve: Leatrice Joy Gilbert Fountain
Elizabeth Foxwell: The Unholy Four (aka The Stranger Came Home); Red Nightmare
Evan Lewis: Captain Midnight (a 1955 tv episode)
Gary Deane: 11 for 2015
George Kelley: Brooklyn; Carol
Gilligan Newton-John: Benji (the audio/storybook adaptation); Take This Job and Shove It; four obscure action films (some NSFW imagery); Ice Capades 1975
Iba Dawson: Miles Ahead; Macbeth (2015)
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Cattle Empire; the GetTV network, et al.; classic Xmas films
Jack Seabrook, Peter Enfantino, John Scoleri, Jose Cruz and Gilbert: 2015 favorites, new and reissued
Jackie Kashian: Brock Wilbur on Silent Hill and other horror-oriented video games; Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin's new podcast
Jacqueline T. Lynch: classic Xmas films
Jake Hinkson: 2015, old and new films
James Branscome: 2015 discoveries of older films
James Clark: Flight of the Red Balloon
James Reasoner: Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Janet Varney: Aya Cash
Jerry House: The Scarecrow (1920 film)
John Grant: The Painted Lady; Mystery of the 13th Guest
Jonathan Lewis: Hero and the Terror; You and Me
Karen Hannsberry: Convicted; The Criminal Code
Kate Laity: The Ealing Comedies
Ken Levine: Wayne Rogers; how US broadcast networks might get out of their slump
Kevin Pollak's Chat Show: Kelly Carlin
Kristina Dijan: Jack the Ripper (1959 film); The Life of Jimmy Dolan; Highway Dragnet; A Matter of Life and Death; December films
Laura G: The Letter; And Now Tomorrow; Cy Endfield; Hitler's Children; Dial Red O; Pillow to Post
Lucy Brown: The First of the Few
Marty McKee: Truck Turner; Escape 2000 (aka Turkey Shoot)
Mildred Perkins: Fido
Mystery Dave: The Aviator
Patricia Nolan-Hall: The Absent-Minded Professor
Patti Abbott: Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams; Michael Caine; One and Done
Pop My Culture: Matt Mira
Rick: Homicidal; 2015 most popular posts
Robert/Television Obscurities: WCBW (later WCBS) schedule, Week of 29 June 1941; Code 3 (tv series); The Ghostbreaker (1967 telefilm/pilot)
Rod Lott: On Her Bed of Roses; House of Long Shadows; Fantastic Four (2015 film); Shriek of the Mutilated
Rupert Pupkin: Figures in a Landscape
Ruth Kerr: Borderline
Sachin Gandhi: 2015 Top Ten films, and honorable mentions
Scott A. Cupp: Them!
Sergio Angelini: film noir
Stacia Kissick Jones: The Earth vs. the Flying Saucers; The Discoverers
Stephen Bowie: The "Vast Wasteland" at 50
Steve Lewis: Confidentially Yours [aka...]; Ghost Story: "The New House" (pilot)
Todd Mason: Fred Allen memorialized by Toshiko Akiyoshi, Cyd Charisse and Ann Landers among more likely folk; recent television series in "less-traveled" pathways:
The Man in the High Castle (Amazon)
Midtown (TuffTV broadcast/Amazon streaming)
Everyone's Crazy But Us (Funny or Die/YouTube streaming)
The Hotwives of Atlanta (Hulu)
No, You Shut Up! (Fusion cablecast/YouTube streaming)
W/Bob & David (Netflix)
The Price of More (Crackle streaming)
Falcón (CinéMoi cable/streaming)
Spotless (Esquire Network/streaming)
Flesh and Bone (Starz)
Vienna: The Letter
Wallace Stroby: The Five Best Heist Films You've Never Seen
WTF: Gloria Steinem and Kliph Nesteroff
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