Saturday, August 6, 2016

Overlooked A/V: Films, Television, Radio and More: the links to reviews, interviews and more (final form for this week)

Wild Strawberries
The (usually) weekly round up of reviews, interviews, and more about A/V materials, usually those that have been undeservedly overlooked (some deservedly, some not overlooked at all in some cases, but those write-ups need  to have some larger interest to make this not exactly exclusive list...usually!)

 Thanks to all contributors, and sorry for the delay of this particular list.

Allan Fish: The Prestige

 Anne Billson: Cloud Atlas

Anuk Bakvist: On the Silver Globe; Letters from a Dead Man 

 Bhob Stewart: The Spine and Chris Landreth; Department of the Interior and Apple Computer ad campaigns; comics 

 The Big Broadcast 31 July 2016
  • 7 p.m.  Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
    “The Molly K. Matter” Parts 3 and 4 (CBS, Original airdates October 12 and 13, 1955)
  • 7:30 p.m. Philco Radio Time starring Bing Crosby, with special guest Jack Benny
    (ABC, Original airdate March 3, 1948)
  • 8 p.m. Gunsmoke
    “Ugly”, episode 279 (CBS, Original airdate December 15, 1957)
  • 8:20 p.m. The Adventures of Superman
    “Airplane Disasters at Bridger Field” Part #3 (MBS, Original airdate May 3, 1940)
  • 8:30 p.m. Dragnet
    "Auto Burglaries - Myra the Redhead" (NBC, Original airdate September 1, 1949)
  • 9 p.m. The Six Shooter
    “The Coward” (NBC, Original airdate September 27, 1953)
  • 9:30 p.m. Exploring Tomorrow (hosted by John W. Campbell, Jr.)
    "Telepaths" (Mutual/MBS, Original airdate May 7, 1958)
  • 10 p.m. Counterspy
    “The Case of the Hijacked Country” (ABC, Original airdate April 20, 1950)
  • 10:30 p.m. Screen Guild Theater
    “Strawberry Blonde” (CBS, Original airdate October 5, 1941)









Iba Dawson: Iba's Mom's Favorite Films

 Ira Brooker: Underrated films of 1976

 Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: The Lieutenant (1963-64 tv); Star Trek series on the H&I network

 Jack Seabrook: The Hitchcock Project so far; Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Touché"

 Jackie Kashian: Robin Ryan on roller derby; Joe DeRosa on horror films and Paul Giamatti; Rory Scovel on golf

 Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin: The Jackie and Laurie Show

 Jacqueline T. Lynch: The Mortal Storm; Address Unknown; Storm Warning; Planet of the Apes (1968 film) revival and the perfect theater

 Jaimie Grijalba: Southland Tales

 Jake Hinkson: Robert Ryan

 James Clark: Knight of Cups; Blow Out 

 James Reasoner: The Talk of the Town; Saddle the Wind; The 5th Wave

 Janet Varney: The JV Club

 J. D. Lafrance: Repo Man

 Jerry House: The Roy Rogers Show: "The Case of the Mysterious Puppet" (Mutual/MBS Radio); The Stranger (1946 film); Denninger the Mentalist: Dorothy Killgalen; She-Demons; Bob Newhart: "The Driving Instructor"; The CBS Radio Mystery Theater: "The Old Ones are Hard to Kill"; Jail Bait (1953 film); Suspense: "Post Mortem" (CBS Radio)

 John Grant: "La moglie"; Le dos au mur; The Dark Tower (1943 film); Before Dawn (1933); Anna Lucasta; Wild Ones on Wheels 

 John Greco: The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)

 John Scoleri: Dark Shadows Before I Die: the episodes reviewed

 Jonathan Lewis: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum; Forty Guns; Night Unto Night; She Gods of the Shark Reef

 Karen Hannsberry: Red Headed Woman; Dance, Fool, Dance

 Kate Laity: The Viktor Wynd Museum; My Little Pony; "Punk 1976-78" at the British Museum; Georgiana Houghton at Courtald; "Conceptual Art" at the Tate Britain; Radio Girls; Tate Modern and the Switch House

Ken Levine: Starting on The Simpsons; Ratings in radio; Radio storytellers; braindead plotting on Brain Dead; writing dialog

 Kliph Nesteroff: Paul Krassner; The Bill Dana Show (NBC TV 1964)

 Kristina Dijan: The Mind Reader (1933 film); Queen Bee; Charley Varrick; Bicycle Thieves; July Film Diary

 Laura G: Count the Hours; Crashing Hollywood; The Saint in Palm Springs; Arizona Legion; The Fighting Gringo (not a Trump campaign film)





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5 comments:

  1. Jack SeabrookAugust 5, 2016 at 9:09 AM

    Thanks, Todd!

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  2. Prashant C. TrikannadAugust 5, 2016 at 11:13 AM

    Hey Todd, here's the link to my review of "The Intern" — http://chesscomicsandcrosswords.blogspot.in/2016/08/the-intern-2015.html. Thanks for the weekly compilation.

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  3. Todd MasonAugust 5, 2016 at 11:27 AM

    Thank you, Jack...and you, Prashant...I have your THE INTERN ready to be listed, as I continue to work on the list here, only about half-done so far...entry proceeds largely alphabetically, with the usual cluster on MYSTERY*FILE and this week on Sam Juliano's site somewhat masking that fact...

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  4. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)August 7, 2016 at 2:29 PM

    You're a champ Todd - always exciting (and humbling) going through your roundups

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  5. Todd MasonAugust 8, 2016 at 3:38 PM

    I'm certainly happy to put them together, but they do take a fair amount of time at the easiest of occasions! Thanks for contributing so well and so often, and the benisons!

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