Thursday, August 18, 2016

Overlooked A/V: links to reviews, interviews and more: Films, Television, Radio, Stage and more...Many new links!

The Company directed by Robert Altman
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!)

Adam Ferenz: Ex Machina

Allan Fish: Dark City  

Anne Billson: Robert Altman

 Bhob Stewart: Laurent Nicholas animation; Del Close; NPR Jazz Profiles; etc.

 The Big Broadcast 14 Aug 2016
  • 7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
    “The Chesapeake Fraud Matter” Parts 2 + 3 (CBS, Original airdates October 18 and 19, 1955)
  • 7:30 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
    “Weekend at Crystal Lake” (CBS, Original airdate August 21, 1950)
  • 8 p.m. Gunsmoke
    “One For Lee”, episode 284 (CBS, Original airdate January 26, 1958)
  • 8:20 p.m. The Adventures of Superman
    “Airplane Disasters at Bridger Field” Part #5 (Mutual/MBS, Original airdate May 8, 1940) 
  • 8:30 p.m. Dimension X
    “The Martian Chronicles” (NBC, Original airdate August 18, 1950)
  • 9 p.m. Dragnet
    ”Eric Kelby" aka “Body Buried in Nursery” (NBC, Original airdate September 3rd, 1949)
  • 9:30 p.m. Gang Busters
    “Four Feathers” (CBS, Original airdate January 21, 1950)
  • 10 p.m. The MGM Theatre Of The Air
    "Stamboul Quest" (MGM syndication, Original airdate July 14, 1950)









 Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Chicago Confidential; A Woman's Face; Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence; HDNet Movies, FXM and MGM HD channels

Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Cell 227"

 Jackie Kashian: Ashley Esqueda on late night television; Amy Dallen on Hamilton and more;  with Maria Bamford in Montreal

 Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin: The Jackie and Laurie Show

Jacqueline T. Lynch: Keeper of the Flame

 Jake Hinkson: Noir City Chicago 8 festival

 James Clark: Stranger Than Paradise; Knight of Cups 

 James Reasoner: Fugitive of the Plains; Captains of the Clouds

 Janet Varney: Justin Kirk; Andrew Burlinson; Mark Gagliardi

 Jerry House: The First World Fantasy Convention, 1975 (audio); Mr. I. A. Moto (NBC Radio); Son of Ingagi; "Bug Vaudeville"

Joel Bocko: Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

John Grant: The Fleischer Animations; Država (aka The State); Return from the Ashes; Phoenix (2014 film); Nausicaa; 1984 (1984 film)

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

 John Varley: Eight-Legged Freaks

 Jonathan Lewis: Power of the Press; Shotgun (1955 film); The Ultimate Warrior (1973 film)

 Karen Hannsberry: The Damned Don't Cry

 Kate Laity: Boom!

Ken Levine: Trapped in elevators; notes; new commercial broadcast series

Kliph Nesterhoff: The Mike Stokey Show; Gary Mule Deer

 Kristina Dijan: August Film Diary; Things I Learned from the Movies Blogathon


 Laura G.: The Maverick (1952 film); The Mouthpiece (1932 film); Ridin' for Justice; Stop, You're Killing Me; The Navajo Trail; Fixer Dugan; Winter Carnival (1939 film); Flame of the West

 Lesley Gaspar: Safe in Hell

 Lindsay D.: Big Leaguer

 Lucy Brown: Dancing on the Edge

 Maltin on Movies: Phil Proctor of The Firesign Theatre

Martin Edwards: The Reeds; Joy Swift's Original Murder Mystery Weekends

 Marty McKee: Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow

 Mildred Perkins: The Crazies (1973 & 2010 films)

 Mitchell Hadley: NBN Television restoration; 21 August 1968 M-SP tv listings; TV Guide, 17 August 1968

Movie Sign with the Mads: Valley of the Dolls


 Noel Vera: Batman: The Killing Joke; Super

 Patricia Nolan-Hall: New York Confidential

 Patti Abbott: Laura (1944 film); film comedy; Roc; Don't Think Twice

 Paul Brazill: The Weekenders: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith

 Pierre de Plume: Sleeper

 Pop My Culture: Epic Lloyd and Mary Doodles

 Raquel Stecher: Holiday Affair

Rick: The Big Clock; swimming pools in film; Plimpton! (tv series featuring George Plimpton)

Steve Lewis: The Killing; Treasury Men in Action: "The Case of the Deadly Dilemma"

TV Obscurities: Kyle MacDonnell

Tynan: High and Low; Love in the Afternoon; In the Mood for Love;  The Set-Up; Living is Easy with Eyes Closed

 Victoria Loomes: Terence Fisher, Christopher Lee and Dracula

 Vienna: The Enforcer (1951 film); Cary Grant

 Walter Albert: She (1935 film); Lady on a Train

 Yvette Banek: The Three Musketeers (1948 film)

 Mildly Not Safe for Work...so play it elsewhere, and perhaps not for kids:

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Friday, August 12, 2016

Friday's Forgotten Books: the links to reviews and more

The weekly gathering of reviews and review  essays devoted to the "forgotten" or at least insufficiently attended-to (usually!) narratives of the past...usually books of fiction, but ranging a bit beyond that.  Either series founder Patti Abbott or I will be hosting next week, most likely. 

 Sergio Angelini: Kiss by "Ed McBain"

 Frank Babics: Ghost Stories edited by Aleš Haman & Irena Zítková

 Mark Baker: Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist by Dorothy Gilman

 Yvette Banek: Sleeping Giants by Silvain Neuvel

 The BareBones Staff: EC Comics, July 1951

 Joe Barone: Death of a Swagman by Arthur W. Upfield

 Les Blatt: There's a Reason for Everything by E. R. Punshon

 Brian Busby: The Further Frustrations of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. Packard

 David Cramner: The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

 Bill Crider: Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

 William Deeck: Another Mug for the Bier by Richard Starnes

 Martin Edwards: The Problem of the Wire Cage by John Dickson Carr

 Barry Ergang: The Tightrope Men by Desmond Bagley

 Will Errickson: The Orpheus Process by Daniel H. Gower

 Curt Evans: The Uncertain Glory et seq. by Molly Thynne

 Fred Fitch: The Perfect Murder by Lawrence Block, Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman, Peter Lovesey, Donald Westlake and Jack Hitt

 Paul Fraser: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1951, edited by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas; Science Fiction Monthly, April 1975, edited by Julie Davis

 Ed Gorman: John Brunner

 John Grant: The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham

 Jake Hinkson: Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong

 Rich Horton: Black Rock by Ralph Connor

 Jerry House: Son of the Flying "Y" by Will F. Jenkins (aka "Murray Leinster")
"...one yellow." One pink, one tan.

 Tracy K: The Case of the Restless Redhead by Erle Stanley Gardner

 George Kelley: Sci-Fi [sic] Chronicles edited by Guy Haley

 Margot Kinberg: State Fair by Earlene Fowler

 Rob Kitchin: Rough Treatment by John Harvey

 B. V. Lawson: The Last Vanity by "Hartley Howard" (Leopold Horace Ognall, a name no one would believe)

 Steve Lewis: Shanghai Flame by A. S. Fleischman

 John F. Norris: The Cat and Fiddle Murders by E. B. Ronald

 Matt Paust: Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

 Mildred Perkins: Rise Again by Ben Tripp

 James Reasoner: Snatch! by "CKM Scanlon" (George Fielding Eliot in this case)

 Richard Robinson: The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker by Maeve Brennan

 Peter Rozovsky: Odds Against Tomorrow by William P. McGivern

 Gerard Saylor: Into the Valley by John Hersey

 Steve Scott: The Red Hot Typewriter by Hugh Merrill; 1985 John D. MacDonald interview from Family Weekly

 Kerrie Smith: The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

 Richard Strauss: Hammett Homicides edited by "Ellery Queen" (Bestseller Mystery #81)

 "TomCat": "The Wounded Tyrolean" by Donald Yates; The Count of Nine by "A. A. Fair" (Erle Stanley Gardner)

Prashant Trikannad: The Ghost Squad by John Gosling
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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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