GROUCHO REVIEWS film critic PETER CANAVESE reviews the WARNER HOME VIDEO 4K release of AMERICAN SNIPER (2014) on CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (5-16-24) SCREEN SCENE with program host TIM SIKA. Produced by LARRY JAKUBECZ for #KSJS (90.5 FM) and #RadioSausalito (1610 AM)

Celluloid Dreams - the Movie Show

AMERICAN SNIPER (2014) 4K (PETER CANAVESE) CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (SCREEN SCENE) 5/16/24

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Doggy Tha Dogfather reunites with Goldee Tha Guvnah on this absolute banger. Based on a true story. Taken from Smell The Coffee volume 1 mixtape.

Based on a true story feat. Doggy Tha Dogfather

How Can You Judge Me

Based On A True Story

With their city under fire, can they find hope in each other?
'Rich, evocative and spellbinding' KATE THOMPSON

'A heartwarming tale of courage, friendship and hope' MILLY JOHNSON 

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 In December 1940, the Blitz has reached Sheffield, but Steel Girl Hattie is more concerned about the war brewing at home between her parents. Desperate to help her mother in any way she can, will Hattie get through with the help of her factory sisters?

Betty is overjoyed to learn that her fiancé will be coming home to complete his RAF training. But when the Blitz begins, he may be in greater danger than ever.

Young Patty has never been prouder of her sweetheart, Archie, than in his role as an Air Raid Warden. But having seen the true cost of war, is he struggling more than Patty could ever imagine?

And as the bombs begin to fall, with heartbreak on the horizon, will the Steel Girls find shelter in each other?

A heartwarming and dramatic World War II saga, perfect for fans of Vicki Beeby, Kate Thompson and Pam Howes.

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Readers love Steel Girls in the Blitz!
'I could not read this book fast enough … I've grown to love this group of strong women!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'A tremendously good read … a story of love and friendship at the most difficult times' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Amazing … once you start it's hard to put down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Gives a great sense of the resilience and camaraderie of communities' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'I love this series … another excellent addition' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Steel Girls in the Blitz, By Michelle Rawlins, Read by Laura Brydon

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 2/27/25

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Quiet White people in Florida??

THE QUIET ONES dramatizes a 2008 heist-- the biggest and most spectacular in Danish history-- by a multinational group of ambitious criminals, led by a struggling boxer willing to risk losing his family and everything that matters to him. Zooming in with us is director Frederik Louis Hviid.

From 2017:  In a budget motel near Disney World, the sometimes-disruptive behavior of a resident 6-year-old causes concern for her single mother and the sympathetic motel manager. Director/co-writer Sean Baker (TANGERINE & current Academy Award nominee for ANORA) takes us into THE FLORIDA PROJECT.  

From 2014:  The racial satire DEAR WHITE PEOPLE follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where controversy breaks out over a popular but offensive Black-face party thrown by White students. It also became a hit Netflix series, and we chat about the film with its writer/director, Justin Simien (BAD HAIR).  

Then, "Screen Scene" movie reviews including ﻿EX-HUSBANDS; MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE; ﻿LIZA: A TRULY TERRIFIC ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY; ﻿AMADEUS [4K][Warner Home Video]; ﻿DELICATESSEN [4K][Severin Films]; ANTIVIRAL [4K][Severin Films]; SEPTEMBER 5 [Paramount Home Video]; HARD TRUTHS [Decal Releasing] and THE ORDER [Vertical Entertainment].

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This week's featured soundtrack: THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR (music by Hannes De Maeyer) [Silva Screen Records]

THE QUIET ONES + SEAN BAKER + JUSTIN SIMIEN + NEW REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW) 2-27-25

Will Smith dropped a new album, "Base On A True Story" and he swung by Q102 to talk about releasing his first album in 20 years. I spring some footage on Will that was dug up from Q102 archives. Will is shocked when he sees this footage of him performing at the Q102 Monster Concert in 1989. He's even got family with him hanging backstage. 

We also get into his reasons for putting out the type off music he does. We talk about parenthood as I'm about to become a first time Dad. We chat about his relationship with other rappers turned actors and so much more!

Will Smith Shocked By Concert Footage From 1989 (Interview)

Lena had never seen a human face.

She was born with a rare condition—one that doctors couldn’t explain. To her, people simply didn’t exist. She could see the world in perfect detail: the earth, the sky, the buildings, the trees. But where a person should be, there was only emptiness.

She had learned to live with it. She listened to voices, followed sounds, and felt the brush of unseen hands. It was lonely, but predictable. Safe.

Until the man appeared.

It started subtly. A flicker of movement where there should have been nothing. A shadow peeking from behind a streetlight, its shape just barely visible at the edge of her vision.

At first, she told herself it was nothing. A trick of her mind. But the shadow didn’t go away.

It got closer.

She began to notice him everywhere—standing just behind the corners of buildings, lurking at the edge of alleyways. Never moving, never speaking. Just watching. And each time she turned another corner, he was closer.

One day, he stood at the end of her driveway.

The next, at the foot of her stairs.

That night, she locked her bedroom door. But locks don’t keep out things that shouldn’t exist.

Lena didn’t answer her phone the next morning. No one heard from her again.

Her house sat untouched, her door still locked from the inside. The only clue was the blood.

A thick, winding trail leading from her bedroom into the woods. It stretched deep into the forest, disappearing into the shadows between the trees.

They searched for weeks. No body. No signs of struggle. Only silence.

And those who dare to walk near the forest’s edge say, sometimes, just before twilight, they feel a presence behind them. A shadow lingering at the corners of their vision.

Waiting.

Watching.

Closer.

BASED ON A TRUE STORY!!!

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The true Story of Vikbacks-Lotta - A Mother’s Endless Grief Beneath the Earth

In the 1870s near Grängesberg, a poor widow named Lotta lived in a small cottage near Vikbacken. Her husband had died on Christmas Eve, falling to his death in a mine shaft. But the true heartbreak came three years later, when her only son, 22-year-old Karl Erik Kjellman, was killed in a mine collapse at the Pick Mine—buried alive beneath tons of stone.

The mine was being closed and flooded, and safety had been neglected. Erik, nearly deaf after a dynamite accident, didn’t hear the warning in time. His body was never recovered. The mining company deemed it too dangerous and costly to retrieve him. His mother, Vikbacks-Lotta, devastated and desperate, pleaded for his remains—but her cries fell on indifferent ears.

Refusing to give up, Lotta walked to Ludvika, took the train and then a boat to Stockholm to plead with the mining authority, even hoping to see the King. She was received kindly, but no action was taken. Years passed. She declined compensation from the company, saying she wouldn’t "sell her beloved son." Eventually, she accepted only one thing—a piece of black fabric for a mourning dress.

Three years after the tragedy, a unique funeral was held. The mine was silent, the town gathered, and a priest led the ceremony from a wooden bridge over the shaft. As hymns played, the priest dropped soil into the abyss, blessing the resting place of a young man who would never lie in a graveyard, and a mother who would never hold him again.

Lotta, forever changed, continued to visit the mine in grief until her death. The sorrow consumed her, and it’s said it was the grief itself that killed her.

Some whispered her husband’s death wasn’t an accident, but murder—making her loss even more unbearable. And Erik’s deafness, caused by a coworker’s prank with explosives weeks before the collapse, may have sealed his fate.

Fifty years later, the mine was reopened and operations neared the place of the collapse. No one knows if Erik’s remains were ever found—or if he still lies buried where he fell.

This is the story of Vikbacks-Lotta: a mother’s hopeless battle against a faceless industry, a tale of love, sorrow, and unyielding grief echoing through the mines of Grängesberg.

The Black Dress of Vikbacks-Lotta

The true story about Sol-Lisa (part one):
It began on a cold January day in 1755, just outside Kopparberg in Sweden, where Elisabeth Ersdotter—called Lisa—was born into one of the wealthiest families in the region. As Lisa reached her twenties, she fell in love with a young, handsome farmhand named Jan. But her father forbade the relationship—Jan was of lower social class and thus unworthy. Lisa was warned: if her father ever caught them together, she would be beaten and disinherited.

Still, love found secret places. Despite being promised in marriage to a respected and wealthy inspector named Carl Gezelius—her parents' ideal match—Lisa continued to meet Jan in secret. When she became pregnant by Jan, panic took hold.

Lisa tried to hide the pregnancy through spring and summer. But rumors spread. When Carl confronted Lisa, she denied everything, and he believed her.

In October 1776, Lisa married Carl. Her pregnancy could no longer be hidden. Carl’s mother suspected something, but Carl continued to trust Lisa’s denials.

When labor began in secret on January 9, 1777, Lisa and her mother shut themselves in the brewhouse. After a painful delivery, a strong, healthy baby boy was born. But for Lisa, the child was a symbol of everything she had lost. She had hoped the baby would be stillborn.

Lisa’s mother considered showing the child to her husband but was stopped by Lisa, who threatened suicide. Left alone briefly with her newborn, Lisa looked at the child—the living evidence of her secret, her shame, her ruined future. And then she made a choice. She wrapped her hand around the baby’s throat and slowly squeezed until the crying stopped.

Sol-Lisa - Part 1 - The Silence in Her Hands

The true story about Sol-Lisa (part two):
On a cold winter day in 1777, Lisa Gezelius gave birth in secret. Alone and terrified, she wrapped her hand around her newborn son's neck and slowly squeezed. The infant's breaths faded until silence remained.

When her mother Catharina returned, Lisa claimed the child was ill. But it was too late — the boy was dead. Catharina took the body, wrapped it in rags, and hid it, moving it from place to place to avoid discovery.

Lisa returned home days later, visibly thinner. Her mother-in-law suspected pregnancy, but Lisa claimed a miscarriage. She believed the secret was safe — the child gone, the shame buried.

But rumors spread. Servants whispered of her swelling belly. The story reached the district judge, Johan Welin, who ordered an investigation. Lisa, her sister Stina, and mother Catharina were brought in for questioning.

Under pressure, Lisa confessed. The child had been born alive and strong — but she had ended its life. Her mother had helped conceal the truth, and the baby’s body was found hidden in a nearby barn. An autopsy confirmed the child was healthy, and signs of strangulation were clear.

Lisa was charged with concealing her pregnancy and murdering her illegitimate child. Her mother was charged with aiding the crime, and her sister with helping cover it up. Lisa’s husband, Carl Gezelius, begged the court for mercy, swearing they had lived happily in marriage — but the law showed no leniency.

Lisa was sentenced to death: beheading followed by burning at the stake. Her mother’s sentence was later reduced, her sister was freed, and the child’s father, Jan Ersson, received only a small fine.

Carl is said to have fallen to his knees before King Gustav III, pleading for his wife’s life. The king refused, declaring: "The crime too grave, the law too strict."

On November 1, 1777, Lisa Gezelius, only 22 years old, was executed near Högberget — dressed in white like a bride, forever remembered as "The Child Murderess."

As she walked to her death, the words from the courtroom wall echoed in her mind:
"He who does evil shall suffer evil."

Sol-Lisa - Part 2 - The Child Murderess

The Ställdalen Train Disaster – January 13, 1956

It was a bitterly cold and snowy Friday, the 13th of January 1956. A fully loaded ore train departed from the Grängesberg mine, and a railbus filled with schoolchildren left Kopparberg. What began as a normal winter day would end in one of Sweden’s worst train disasters.

After passing Silverhöjden station, it was discovered that the brakes on the first ore wagon weren’t working—an air hose had not been connected. Though the locomotive’s brakes functioned, they couldn’t stop the heavy, speeding wagons. The train rushed forward in a shower of sparks. Desperate attempts to call ahead failed.

Coming from the opposite direction, the railbus carried children laughing on their way home from school. It was supposed to be a carefree ride toward the weekend.

At Ställdalen station, the ore train should have stopped to let the railbus pass. Instead, it thundered through in a storm of sparks. Efforts to cut the power were useless—the railbus was diesel-powered, and the ore train could not be stopped.

Moments later, near the now-infamous "Pole 98" outside Ställdalen, the two trains collided. The wooden-bodied railbus stood no chance against the massive steel of the ore train.

Twenty people were killed that day—twelve of them children, five from the same class. Newspapers the next day spoke of a massacre, a battlefield of twisted metal and unimaginable grief. Aftonbladet published a class photo, circling the children who had died.

The sorrow was overwhelming, a heavy silence that blanketed the region for decades—and still lingers. The victims were simply on their way home. Children with full lives ahead of them. Their final seconds filled with terror no one should endure.

On January 23, 1956, the twelve children were buried together in Kopparberg. The entire region was paralyzed by grief.

It wasn’t until fifty years later, in 2006, that a memorial cross was raised at the site. Trains still rush past, just meters behind it. Beautiful, yet unbearably tragic.

The railbus driver managed to jump at the very last moment, though he was badly injured. He later returned to duty. The ore train driver survived too—but never boarded a train again. The locomotive (Ma 405) was repaired and remained in service until 2012. Today, it rests in a museum, its cab painted black as a symbol of mourning.

We must never forget the Ställdalen tragedy. Never.

The Ställdalen Train Disaster  – Thirteen Souls of Snow

You think you know what happened that night

But the truth is far more dangerous …
'Exquisitely told by the author of last year’s bestselling debut Anna O … just as unforgettable’ Daily Mail 

 From the No.1 international bestselling author comes a story of secret pasts and buried memories. A MURDER IN PARIS is a thriller you’ll never forget.

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WHAT IF A MEMORY COULD GET YOU KILLED?

Imagine the past returning to you in fragments.

A hotel room, a pillow, a lifeless body.

Your ordinary, innocent life upended by one flash of memory.

You can’t remember what led to the crime.

All you know is that you must return to the scene, to the clues that lie waiting in Room 11.

But this is a mystery that goes far beyond that room, that night, that murder.

Are you ready to unlock the truth?

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Readers are hooked on A MURDER IN PARIS:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This book grips you from the very first page and doesn’t let go’

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Another edge-of-your-seat thriller which keeps you guessing’

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A fantastic, fast-paced thriller full of unexpected twists’

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A compelling and emotional read’

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Absolutely riveting … I couldn’t put it down’

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I loved this from the start’

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Gripping, twisty and addictive’

Matthew Blake's book 'A Murder in Paris' was a Toronto Star bestseller w/e 2025-06-11.

A Murder in Paris, By Matthew Blake, Read by Penelope Rawlins, Rose Robinson and Josh Wichard

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Nightschool EP [2020] Trip & Dream Records
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Tupamaros EP [2019] Mystery Train Recordings
FriendZone EP [2018] Trippy Code Records
Without Me EP [2018] Urban Nature Records
Lowlife Jam EP [2018] Trippy Code Records
Funny How You Always Want Me EP [2017] Adro Records
Reflections EP [2017] Adro Records
First Contact EP [2016] Adro Records
Need EP [2016]- Happy Days Records
Proxy Feelings EP [2016]- Happy Days Records
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Fly Guy/ Keep Me Dancing [2015]- Adro Records
Feeling Love EP [2015]- Happy Days Records
Positive Attraction EP (2014)- Happy Days Records
Nobody Does It EP (2014)- Happy Days Records
No Response EP (2014)- Go Jam Audio
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